candidate Khieu Samphan in his economic thesis entitled "Cambodia's Economy and Industrial Development". Samphan advocated national self-reliance and generally sided with dependency theorists in blaming the wealthy, industrialized states for the poverty of the Third World. Returning from Paris with his doctorate in 1959, Khieu held a faculty position at the University of Phnom Penh and started L'Observateur, a French-language leftist publication that was viewed with hostility by the government. Like Samir Amin, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were Maoists as well. His magazine was quite similar to what you'd hear at the World Social Forum directed by Samir Amin in Senegal. A bunch of young kids protesting all the injustices of the world. His first important conflict with the anti-Communist Cambodian government of Prince Norodom Sihanouk came the following year, when L'Observateur was banned and Samphan was arrested, forced to undress and photographed in public. Samphan fled to the northeast of Cambodia and joined the communists in the jungles of the Northeast of Cambodia. Samphan became brother number 2 in and head of state of the Communist Party of Kampuchea. Pol Pot and Samir Amin's protoge Khieu Samphan became head of state in Cambodia's Killing machine. As head of State of Communist Cambodia he did away with capitalism, emptied people from the cities, and ultimately oversaw the killing machine that murdered almost a third of the Cambodian population. Samir Amin recently wrote a book entitled, "The world we wish to see: Revolutionary objectives of the 21st Century". Even