Dith Pran, the photojournalist who did so much to tell the world what the Communists did in Cambodia has died. To appreciate his legacy, you might want to visit the Dith Pran Holocaust Awareness Project.
It was things like Cambodia that forever changed my view of politics and foreign policy, making me realize that the Left has no superiority to the Right–and began my realization that Marxism is the 19th and 20th century’s biggest, most disgusting pack of lies.
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How come all the hippies in the 60′s and 70′s, who protested our involvement in Vietnam, didn’t protest what Pol Pot did to Cambodia when we left?
HankB
Few of them had a word to say about all the people who died or were imprisoned and enslaved in Viet Nam itself. Although at least one commenter (Susan Sonntag I think?) said that it showed that communism was “fascism with a human face,” which was probably the closest thing to the real truth I ever heard someone from the left of that era say on the matter. I mean, it’s still warped, but at least it’s closer to the truth than what was typical at the time.
I saw the news on Yahoo! this morning and am glad you posted about it. The Killing Fields inspired me to explore what happened in SE Asia after the fall of Saigon, and pretty much put a dagger in any glamor that Communism held for me on my college campus back in the late 1980s.
Pran’s life remains an inspirational parable to all. We’ve lost one of the Good Guys today.
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