&gt;&gt; whitewashing of Viet Kong atrocities and Cambodian genocide back in the 70s.<p>He&#x27;s done nothing of the sort. He was suspicious of the official account of the Kambodian genocide and he had good reason to be suspicious of that account. It turned out it was true, and he admitted it.<p>&gt;&gt; The side these are applied to is of course &#x27;the evil West&#x27;.<p>Duh. The West <i>is</i> evil. You don&#x27;t realise it because you&#x27;re <i>in</i> the West and you don&#x27;t live in fear of hellfire missiles from a clear blue sky or a mechanised army rolling over your village. But the rest of the world knows it very well.