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  • He notes that the "show trials" of Communist regimes from Stalinist Russia through Mao's China to Pol Pot's Cambodia all depended on denunciations; and many of the inmates of the Guantánamo Bay detention facilities arrived there as the result of some kind of denunciation.

    Inquiring Minds Wanted to Know—or Else Geoffrey Parker 2012

  • In June 1979, Thailand, frustrated at being overrun by Cambodians escaping from Pol Pot's death squads, announced it would expel a large number of refugees.

    Stanley Weiss: Is a Buddhist Tahrir Square Taking Shape in Thailand? Stanley Weiss 2011

  • The heady days of Studio 54 are long gone but, short of Bianca Jagger rocking up on a white horse, Melting Pot's cutting-edge playlists echo those of the legendary New York club.

    Clubs picks of the week 2011

  • But they range in age from 79 to 85, and some observers are concerned that they may not live long enough to face the verdict for their role in Pol Pot's bloody revolution.

    Khmer Rouge Dictator Pol Pot Still Revered Among Some in Cambodia 2011

  • We needed some directions, but how exactly do you ask for directions to Pol Pot's grave?

    Peter Winter: Chasing Demons: Visiting Pol Pot's Grave Peter Winter 2011

  • Although there was never much hope of getting justice for those whose lives were destroyed in Pol Pot's genocide, Mr. Blunk's departure puts the spotlight on the Cambodian government's political interference in the court and the U.N.'s complicity.

    Cambodian and U.N. Justice 2011

  • Furthermore, in celebrating "our most peaceful age," Pinker ignores the Rape of Nanking, the entire Pacific theater of World War II including the detonation of two nuclear bombs over Japan, the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot's killing fields in Cambodia, several consecutive decade-long wars in Vietnam, the Chinese revolution and civil war, the blood-drenched India/Pakistan separation, and the Korean war.

    Christopher Ryan: Pinker's Dirty War on Prehistoric Peace Christopher Ryan 2012

  • But they range in age from 79 to 85, and some observers are concerned that they may not live long enough to face the verdict for their role in Pol Pot's bloody revolution.

    Khmer Rouge Dictator Pol Pot Still Revered Among Some in Cambodia 2011

  • Furthermore, in celebrating "our most peaceful age," Pinker ignores the Rape of Nanking, the entire Pacific theater of World War II including the detonation of two nuclear bombs over Japan, the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot's killing fields in Cambodia, several consecutive decade-long wars in Vietnam, the Chinese revolution and civil war, the blood-drenched India/Pakistan separation, and the Korean war.

    Christopher Ryan: Pinker's Dirty War on Prehistoric Peace Christopher Ryan 2012

  • We needed some directions, but how exactly do you ask for directions to Pol Pot's grave?

    Peter Winter: Chasing Demons: Visiting Pol Pot's Grave Peter Winter 2011

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