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Solzhenitsyn is right in his denunciation of the double standard of morality that prevails in the academy. Contrast the silence about the genocide in Cambodia and about repression in Cuba and Viet Nam with the stormy agitation about South Korea or South Africa. Solzhenitsyn is right in decrying our failure of nerve. He is saying that any society that makes mere survival the be-all and end-all of life will sacrifice everything that makes life worth living. He is warning us that whoever values comfort, property or security above freedom when it is threatened will lose not only their...
Some of them escape across the 450-mile border between Kampuchea (Cambodia) and Thailand, which is dotted with spikes holding the sun-bleached skulls of would-be refugees who were shot down by Khmer Rouge frontier guards. With considerably greater ease, others manage to evade the purgatory of Pathet Lao rule by crossing the Mekong River, the poorly guarded frontier between Laos and Thailand. From Viet Nam, thousands of refugees -the so-called boat people-have sailed to Thailand or Malaysia in overcrowded junks. An equal number have died in the attempt...
...still they come. Last month 4,752 Vietnamese succeeded in joining the 450,000 refugees who have successfully escaped from Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos since the Communist takeovers in 1975. The most recent escapees have been the Vietnamese and Chinese who were fleeing Hanoi's harsh new crackdown on private property and trade, which has resulted in large-scale unemployment and serious food shortages. On the average, 1,400 Laotians swim or sail across the Mekong every month, while only 60 Cambodians make it across their booby-trapped frontier in a desperate run from the mass executions...
Hanoi has also twitted Peking over its concern about the Chinese in Viet Nam while it inconsistently ignores the persecution of the 500,000 ethnic Chinese in Cambodia. According to Hanoi radio, hundreds of thousands of Chinese in "Democratic Kampuchea"?the country's official name?"have been subjected to blatant repression, mass evictions and massacres." Hanoi has also strongly defended its harassment of Chinese shopkeepers on the grounds that Communism should affect everyone equally. Argued one official press release: "China is a socialist country that also underwent a difficult period, similar to what Viet Nam is now experiencing; China...
...rather than by specifically anti-Chinese discrimination. Already deprived of their shops and goods, the Chinese in Viet Nam are understandably fearful of Hanoi's announced intention to resettle over the next 20 years in uninhabited areas 10 million people from overcrowded cities. An equally draconian resettlement program in Cambodia in 1975 coupled with political reprisals has already cost at least half a million lives. Why has Peking so far refused to accept Hanoi's offer to negotiate the fate of the Chinese in Viet Nam? Some Western observers speculate that Peking may have seized on the Chinese exodus...