Pol Pot, leader of the communist Khmer Rouge: Approximately one quarter of Cambodia’s population were killed, worked to death or starved during his four-year rule.
My new op-ed in our excellent local small town paper, The Low Down to Hull and Back News.
This was not meant as a defence specifically of the planned memorial to the victims of communism in Ottawa, but to explain why, more fundamentally, we should respect and understand this theme of 20th century history.
In-situ here:
http://www.lowdownonline.com/we-should-not-forget-the-victims-of-communism/
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