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Times Again Leaves Out Communism in Coverage of Khmer Rouge Atrocities

Seth Mydans' dispatches from Cambodia on Monday (“A Verdict Is Due in the First Trial of a Major Khmer Rouge Figure”) and Tuesday (“Prison Term for Khmer Rouge Jailer Leaves many Dissatisfied") relayed the surprisingly lenient verdict in Cambodia of the Khmer Rouge jailer and killer known as “Duch.” They were unsparing and graphic, but strangely incomplete....
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