When the Khmer Rouge seized Cambodia, Western intellectuals dismissed reports of atrocities as propaganda. But French missionary Fr François Ponchaud persisted in exposing the regime’s horrors. With ...

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Dear editor, "It is a beautiful thing, the destruction of words." In the book "1984," George Orwell's character, Syme, makes this comment when describing his employers, the misnomered Ministry of ...