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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 September 2018
Nous allons tous mourir. We are all going to die,” he said one morning, talking with a group of journalists at Chamcar Mon. It was a sultry, thundery day. Not a breath of air stirred the mango trees. The perspiration pouring down the Prince's face looked suddenly like tears. To our protestations that no one wants Cambodia to die, Sihanouk insisted, almost angrily:
“But you don't understand. There is no hope. We have to die.“
—Michael Field, The Prevailing Wind (1965)Another Holocaust.” “Fearful Tragedy.” “Looming Catastrophe.” Cambodia increasingly evokes phrases such as these—belatedly. Brief images of the emaciated and the starving, the dying and the dead flicker across the non-Communist world's TV. screens. They are only the tip of the iceberg.