In 1975, the Foreign Office’s secret Cold War propaganda unit, the Information Research Department, opened a file on the Australian journalist, John McEvoy reports.
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Chris Hedges: Israel’s Genocide Betrays the Holocaust
Escaping Justice for Cambodian Deaths
Exclusive: Very few participants in the mass slaughters across Indochina in the 1960s and 1970s have faced meaningful accountability, whether in Washington, Vietnam or Cambodia. Another Khmer Rouge official, Ieng Sary, escaped justice when he died of natural causes while…
Requiem for Cambodia’s Crafty King
Exclusive: In an elaborate cremation ceremony, Cambodians bade farewell to their dead king, Norodom Sihanouk, the crafty leader who for decades tried to maneuver the small country around the interests of great powers, with mixed and sometimes disastrous results, reports…