![]() ![]() Hence, the article’s title took on a second level of meaning because it not only referred to what the regime was implementing, but also underlined the significance of the article itself. ![]() ![]() In prefacing the interview, Der Spiegel briefly described how the Communists had been ruling the country since April 1975 “while keeping the global public mostly in the dark.” Refugees had told of a “barbaric stone age socialism with hundreds of thousands of victims.” This was, as Der Spiegel claimed, the first time a representative of the Cambodian leadership had given an interview to a Western press organ.1 The magazine was obviously proud of its major scoop. Ieng Sary was also known as “Brother Number Three,” a reference to his position as the third most powerful figure in the Khmer Rouge regime under Pol Pot. Kiran Klaus Patel Cold War Myopia Germany’s World in the 1970s and its Relations with Cambodia Introduction “We’re doing something that’s never been done before.” This was the title used by the West German news magazine Der Spiegel in May 1977 for an interview with Ieng Sary, the deputy prime minister and foreign minister of Cambodia. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ![]()
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