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...event, organized by the Amnesty student group Students for Students, started with a 30-minute parade and included speeches by Iranian, Cambodian and Haitian refugees. A number of local bands played during the program...
...bloody massacre in Bangladesh quickly covered over the memory of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia, the assassination of Allende drowned out the groans of Bangladesh, the war in the Sinai Desert made people forget Allende, the Cambodian massacre made people forget Sinai, and so on and so forth until ultimately everyone lets everything be forgotten." --Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting...
...Another episode seems a conscious reprise of Heart of Darkness. Ned is sent east to find out what happened to an agent who disappeared; he turns up an account of appalling brutality at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, and unbelievable paternal devotion from a father to his half-Cambodian daughter...
...wrong to help bolster the Khmer Rouge? Of course. Was the U.S. wrong not to recognize the Vietnamese-installed Cambodian government? No. We cannot overlook the fact that a historically hostile Vietnam took over Cambodia...
Unfortunately, the Cold War never allowed the U.S. to oppose the Vietnamese-backed government in any constructive way; rather than backing the Cambodian rebel group--which was dominated by the Khmer Rouge--the U.S. should have recognized neither side and supported a peace process. But then again, the world was a different place 10 years...