Jump in the discussion.

No email address required.

I recall Noam Chomsky being confronted with photos of the Khmer Rouge making intellectuals pull ploughs in fields and justifying it by claiming that they had to do it because America had killed all the livestock in Cambodia. Anyone else remember this and have a source?

Edit: Found it!

Even if the photographs had been authentic, we might ask why people should be pulling plows in Cambodia. The reason is clear, if unmentioned. The savage American assault on Cambodia did not spare the animal population. Hildebrand and Porter, in their Cambodia: Starvation and Revolution, cite a Cambodian Government report of April 1976 that several hundred thousand draft animals were killed in the rural areas. The Post did not have to resort to probable fabrications to depict the facts. A hundred-word item buried in The New York Times of June 14, 1976, cites an official U.N. report that teams of “human buffaloes” pull plows in Laos in areas where the buffalo herds, along with everything else, were decimated (by the American bombing, although this goes unmentioned in the Times. Much the same is true in Vietnam. Quite possibly the U.N. or the Laotian Government could supply photographic evidence, but this would not satisfy the needs of current propaganda.

Jump in the discussion.

No email address required.

consider: making journos :marseybluecheck: and professors :marseyfoidteach: do real work for once is a good thing, actually

Jump in the discussion.

No email address required.

Link copied to clipboard
Action successful!
Error, please refresh the page and try again.