Democratic Kampuchea—CIA to the Rescue
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8415488 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Vickery (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 45-54 |
| Publication date | 1982-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-4810 • E-ISSN: 1472-6033 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14672715.1982.10412668 |
| OpenAlex | W2320628133 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 2 |
As Noam Chomsky has pointed out, press accounts about the non-western world, in particular Cambodia, are often as interesting for themselves, as “works of art,” as for information about conditions within the country concerned. For over three years the mainstream western press generally treated the regime of “Democratic Kampuchea” (DK) and its leader, Pol Pot, as very nearly the worst known to human history; and calls for intervention to displace them were heard even from usually responsible quarters. Yet when they finally were displaced, following a war largely provoked by their own actions, and by a polity whose record on human rights had always seemed much better, not only was little rejoicing heard, but the remnants of the DK regime became recipients of recognition and support by the powers who had cried out most loudly against them. Clearly concern with human rights or atrocities was of secondary importance to considerations of international power politics; and if no one was willing to suddenly declare Pol Pot a bulwark of the Free World against Godless Communism, the atrocities over which he had presided tended to be implicitly forgiven as his role in an anti-Vietnamese coalition was emphasized
Communism · Democracy · Human rights · Intervention (counseling · Mainstream · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Polity · Power (physics · Sociology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Cambodian History and Society · Law
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 1996 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |