January  UTC   References      New Archives found in Cambodia and new sections   Recently new archives have been found in Cambodia shedding some light on missing Western people I dont have the original documents just what a news article on The Australian wrote I have updated the Aftermath section and cited the article Also perhaps there should be consideration to open a section on the genocide the death camps and recognition which countries recognized the regime     By  the genocides in Pol Pots Khmer Rouge regime were condemned by New York Review of Books as well as Readers Digest and TV Guide with the boast that they had eliminated  million  or one fourth of the population  However journalist Jean Lacouture had conceded weeks later that the story was a fabrication and the actual death toll may have been in the thousands  Chomsky noted by mid according to US intelligence the death toll had reached tens if not hundreds of thousands mostly from disease malnutrition and overwork the result primarily of brutal rapid change not mass genocide this assessment ignored at the time since it did not satisfy the current propaganda requirements is now quite generally confirmed by subsequent scholarshipMediaThe Chomsky Reader East Timor Pantheon Books  page    This only goes to show that Chomsky that great  linguist is prepared to belittle any crime unless he can blame it on America