"Reflections on Cambodia"

This article in "National Review Online" by a professor from Peking University in Shezhen, China, will strike a responsive chord from those of us who have actually visited Cambodia.  What transpired there in the 1970s under the Khmer Rouge regime was so horrible and unthinkable that one almost has to go to the killing fields, as we did, to be able to even imagine that such could actually happen in our lifetimes.  However, as the professor points out, similar horrors have been perpetrated on others: Chinese under Mao, Jews under Hitler, Armenians by Turks, Bosnians by Serbs, Russians under Stalin, all in our lifetimes except perhaps the Armenian massacre by the Turks.  The professor makes the argument that the slaughter of Cambodians was not genocide but rather the madness that drives communist inspired leaders to create a society in which everyone is equal.  After a firsthand visit to this benighted country this observation makes sense. (Click on the underlined word above to link to the NRO article)