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From: gsmith@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Gene Ward Smith)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: No Danger on the Right
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Date: Thu, 30-Jan-86 04:50:21 EST
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In article <7800908@inmet.UUCP> janw@inmet.UUCP writes:
>
>[ tim sevener whuxn!orb]
>>Everyone knows about the horrible massacre performed
>>by Pol Pot.  But how many people know about the massacre of thousands
>>which occurred in a refugee camp in Guatemala?  
>
>*Now* they know about the Cambodian genocide. *Then* they (educated,
>reading people in USA) didn't. Why, Tim ? Did the journalists know ?
>Sure they did, there were tens of thousands refugees to tell the story.
>And the editors covered themselves by printing rare small notes
>on back pages, with "unverified" a prominent term. Why didn't they
>verify ? Or display even unverified data of that importance,
>for all to see ?  - Why ?
>
>		Jan Wasilewsky



  This is just not true. Anybody with a brain and a memory should be
able to recall the *extensive* coverage of the Cambodian holocaust 
which began right after the Kymher Rouge takeover. 

  Gene Smith