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#Until May 21, 2010; their Khmer Rouge article absurdly implied for almost 6 months that the US armed the Khmer Rouge even after the genocide.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Khmer_Rouge&diff=363358049&oldid=363308856</ref>

#Until May 21, 2010; their Khmer Rouge article absurdly implied for almost 6 months that the US armed the Khmer Rouge even after the genocide.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Khmer_Rouge&diff=363358049&oldid=363308856</ref>

#Their Khmer Rouge article stated that the Khmer Rouge "received extensive military aid from China, Britain and the United States" until July 25, 2010.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Khmer_Rouge&diff=prev&oldid=375415190</ref>     

#Their Khmer Rouge article stated that the Khmer Rouge "received extensive military aid from China, Britain and the United States" until July 25, 2010.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Khmer_Rouge&diff=prev&oldid=375415190</ref>     

#Their estimates of the death toll in Communist Cambodia are plainly false for this simple reason (which is mentioned on Conservapedia):  "Investigators have uncovered and examined the remains of 1.1 million Cambodians (later raised to 1.39 million) found in mass graves near Khmer Rouge execution centers whose cause of death has been determined by the investigators to have been execution by the former Khmer Rouge regime.<ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/deaths.htm</ref><ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/toll.htm</ref><ref>http://welcome.to/dccam</ref>  Because no ''more'' than roughly ''half'' of those killed by the Khmer Rouge were executed (the rest having died from other causes like state-created famine, the deliberate withholding of basic necessities by the state, the refusal by the state to allow foreign aid, the abolishing of medicine and hospitals by the state, systematic overwork and slave labor by the state, and brutal mistreatment by the state), the Documentation Center of Cambodia estimates that the former regime killed or otherwise caused the unnecessary deaths of, between 2 and 3 million Cambodians.<ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/deaths.htm</ref>  A UN investigation reported 2-3 million dead, while UNICEF estimated 3 million had been killed.<ref>William Shawcross, The Quality of Mercy: Cambodia, Holocaust, and Modern Conscience (Touchstone, 1985), p115-6</ref>  Demographic estimates went as high as 4 million killed by the Khmer Rouge from 1975 to 1978.<ref>http://www.paulbogdanor.com/chomsky/labedz.pdf</ref>  Even the Khmer Rouge acknowledged that 2 million had been killed—though they attributed those deaths to a subsequent Vietnamese invasion.<ref>Khieu Samphan, Interview, Time, March 10, 1980</ref>  By late 1979, UN and Red Cross officials were warning that another 2.25 million Cambodians faced death by starvation due to “the near destruction of Cambodian society under the regime of ousted Prime Minister Pol Pot,”<ref>New York Times, August 8, 1979.</ref><ref>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,912511,00.html</ref> who were saved by American and international aid."  Based on the findings of genocide investigators; the Khmer Rouge killed ''at least'' 2.8 million people in three years.  The Wikipedia article on the Khmer Rouge mentions the 1.39 million in mass graves.  However, it falsely implies without ever being explicit that these Cambodians died from ''all causes'', that many died in the civil war, and that these findings are actually consistent with the claim that Pol Pot only killed 700,000 Cambodians.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge</ref>   

#Their estimates of the death toll in Communist Cambodia are plainly false for this simple reason (which is mentioned on Conservapedia):  "Investigators have uncovered and examined the remains of 1.1 million Cambodians found in mass graves near Khmer Rouge execution centers whose cause of death has been determined by the investigators to have been execution by the former Khmer Rouge regime.<ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/deaths.htm</ref><ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/toll.htm</ref><ref>http://welcome.to/dccam</ref>  Because no ''more'' than roughly ''half'' and as little as a ''third'' of those killed by the Khmer Rouge were executed (the rest having died from other causes like state-created famine, the deliberate withholding of basic necessities by the state, the refusal by the state to allow foreign aid, the abolishing of medicine and hospitals by the state, systematic overwork and slave labor by the state, and brutal mistreatment by the state), the Documentation Center of Cambodia estimates that the former regime killed or otherwise caused the unnecessary deaths of, between 2 and 3 million Cambodians.<ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/deaths.htm</ref>  A UN investigation reported 2-3 million dead, while UNICEF estimated 3 million had been killed.<ref>William Shawcross, The Quality of Mercy: Cambodia, Holocaust, and Modern Conscience (Touchstone, 1985), p115-6</ref>  Demographic estimates went as high as 4 million killed by the Khmer Rouge from 1975 to 1978.<ref>http://www.paulbogdanor.com/chomsky/labedz.pdf</ref>  Even the Khmer Rouge acknowledged that 2 million had been killed—though they attributed those deaths to a subsequent Vietnamese invasion.<ref>Khieu Samphan, Interview, Time, March 10, 1980</ref>  By late 1979, UN and Red Cross officials were warning that another 2.25 million Cambodians faced death by starvation due to “the near destruction of Cambodian society under the regime of ousted Prime Minister Pol Pot,”<ref>New York Times, August 8, 1979.</ref><ref>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,912511,00.html</ref> who were saved by American and international aid." Subsequent studies sugested that 1.39 million may have been executed, and that the toll from executions alone could have reached 1.5 million--which would indicate 3 million deaths even if these accounted for half the sum total. Based on the findings of genocide investigators; the Khmer Rouge killed ''at least'' 1.1 to 1.5 million people through executions and 1-2 million through state-created famine and disease in three years.  With a range of 2.2 to 3.5 million killed, a mid-value total would be well in excess of 2.5 million.  The Wikipedia article on the Khmer Rouge mentions the over 1 million victims of execution in mass graves.  However, it falsely implies without ever being explicit that these Cambodians died from ''all causes'', that many died in the civil war, and that these findings are actually consistent with the claim that Pol Pot only killed 700,000 Cambodians.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge</ref>   

#Wikipedia's attempts to conflate the death toll from American bombing and from Communist genocide are reminiscent of the tactics of Holocaust deniers who exaggerate the toll of Allied bombing and then assert that the deaths in the camps were the result of food shortages caused by the war against the Nazis.  Here's a telling case in point:  Genocide investigators have uncovered 20,000 mass graves filled with the bodies of Khmer Rouge victims, counting ''only'' mass graves located ''at'' Khmer Rouge execution centers and those filled with victims whose cause of death has been determined by the investigators' examinations to have been execution by the regime (keep in mind that executions accounted for only ''half'' the death toll).  These same investigators have found only 2 mass graves filled with the victims of US bombing.<ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/deaths.htm</ref><ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/toll.htm</ref>

#Wikipedia's attempts to conflate the death toll from American bombing and from Communist genocide are reminiscent of the tactics of Holocaust deniers who exaggerate the toll of Allied bombing and then assert that the deaths in the camps were the result of food shortages caused by the war against the Nazis.  Here's a telling case in point:  Genocide investigators have uncovered 20,000 mass graves filled with the bodies of Khmer Rouge victims, counting ''only'' mass graves located ''at'' Khmer Rouge execution centers and those filled with victims whose cause of death has been determined by the investigators' examinations to have been execution by the regime (keep in mind that executions accounted for only ''half'' the death toll).  These same investigators have found only 2 mass graves filled with the victims of US bombing.<ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/deaths.htm</ref><ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/toll.htm</ref>

#Its section on the aftermath of the Vietnam War flatly declines to mention the 70,000 South Vietnamese killed within 90 days of the Communist takeover, the massive death toll from the invasion of South Vietnam, the 200-400,000 boat who died at sea, or the 600,000 South Vietnamese who were slaughtered by the Communists after 1975 (not counting the boat people).<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#Aftermath</ref>  It also minimizes the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge.  It does not mention the 150,000 killed by the Pathet Lao in Laos.  Wikipedia does not mention anywhere on its site the 500,000 to 1,500,000<ref>http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.TAB4.1A.GIF</ref> Cambodians who were killed by the brutal dictatorship imposed on Cambodia by Communist Vietnam (after 1979), with one exception.  ''This editor'' recently added it to their article on "Covert United States Foreign Regime Change Actions," and to my knowledge it has yet to be censored.

#Its section on the aftermath of the Vietnam War flatly declines to mention the 70,000 South Vietnamese killed within 90 days of the Communist takeover, the massive death toll from the invasion of South Vietnam, the 200-400,000 boat who died at sea, or the 600,000 South Vietnamese who were slaughtered by the Communists after 1975 (not counting the boat people).<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#Aftermath</ref>  It also minimizes the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge.  It does not mention the 150,000 killed by the Pathet Lao in Laos.  Wikipedia does not mention anywhere on its site the 500,000 to 1,500,000<ref>http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.TAB4.1A.GIF</ref> Cambodians who were killed by the brutal dictatorship imposed on Cambodia by Communist Vietnam (after 1979), with one exception.  ''This editor'' recently added it to their article on "Covert United States Foreign Regime Change Actions," and to my knowledge it has yet to be censored.

#On July 28, 2010, the United States was listed as a "belligerent" fighting on the side of Iraq in Wikipedia's "Iran-Iraq War" article.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War&diff=375898707&oldid=375895692</ref>  On July 15, 2010, [[Ronald Reagan]] was listed under "commanders and leaders" as a commander of Iraqi forces, alongside Saddam Hussein and his thugs.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War&diff=368133799&oldid=368122576</ref>

#On July 28, 2010, the United States was listed as a "belligerent" fighting on the side of Iraq in Wikipedia's "Iran-Iraq War" article.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War&diff=375898707&oldid=375895692</ref>  On July 15, 2010, [[Ronald Reagan]] was listed under "commanders and leaders" as a commander of Iraqi forces, alongside Saddam Hussein and his thugs.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War&diff=368133799&oldid=368122576</ref>

#Wikipedia's [[George W. Bush]] article says:  "Those invasions led to the toppling of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and the removal of Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq as well as the deaths of many Iraqis, with surveys indicating between four hundred thousand to over one million dead, excluding the tens of thousands of civilians in Afghanistan."<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush#Foreign_policy</ref>  In reality, based on the findings of Iraqi hospitals and morgues, the Iraqi government estimates that 150,000 Iraqis died in the war, with only 1-2% of those deaths being at the hands of US troops, and the rest by the insurgency they were combating.<ref>http://www.aina.org/news/2007110894701.jsp</ref>  The American army in Iraq has taken ''three times'' as many casualties as it has inflicted on Iraqi civilians in collateral damage.<ref>http://www.aina.org/news/2007110894701.jsp</ref>  Although Wikipedia may insist that these numbers are there only to help unbiased viewers consider the Bush legacy, there is no mention of the fact that the US invasion of Afghanistan saved millions of Afghans from starvation,<ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A42858-2001Dec30?language=printer</ref><ref>http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=24019</ref> or that the lives of 112,000 Afghan children and 7,500 pregnant Afghan women have been saved every year since due to improved healthcare resulting from the invasion (by UNICEF figures).<ref>New York Times, February 1, 2002.</ref>

#Wikipedia's [[George W. Bush]] article says:  "Those invasions led to the toppling of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and the removal of Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq as well as the deaths of many Iraqis, with surveys indicating between four hundred thousand to over one million dead, excluding the tens of thousands of civilians in Afghanistan."<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush#Foreign_policy</ref>  In reality, based on the findings of Iraqi hospitals and morgues, the Iraqi government estimates that 150,000 Iraqis died in the war, with only 1-2% of those deaths being at the hands of US troops, and the rest by the insurgency they were combating.<ref>http://www.aina.org/news/2007110894701.jsp</ref>  The American army in Iraq has taken ''three times'' as many casualties as it has inflicted on Iraqi civilians in collateral damage.<ref>http://www.aina.org/news/2007110894701.jsp</ref>  Although Wikipedia may insist that these numbers are there only to help unbiased viewers consider the Bush legacy, there is no mention of the fact that the US invasion of Afghanistan saved millions of Afghans from starvation,<ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A42858-2001Dec30?language=printer</ref><ref>http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=24019</ref> or that the lives of 112,000 Afghan children and 7,500 pregnant Afghan women have been saved every year since due to improved healthcare resulting from the invasion (by UNICEF figures).<ref>New York Times, February 1, 2002.</ref>

#Wikipedia’s article on “Criticism of Noam Chomsky” (the aforementioned extreme left-wing propagandist and genocide denier) is nothing but an entire page dedicated to defending him and endorsing his conspiracy theories.  It is written in such a biased manner as to imply that Chomsky was ''correct'' to deny the Cambodian genocide.  This pages ''endorses'' the notion that the "total population decline" due to the policies of the Khmer Rouge was "about 400,000" Cambodians (off by nearly a factor of ten, and more than a factor of ten when you add the 1.2 million murdered by Samrin and the Vietnamese after 1979) and further favorably cites the following quote to demonstrate that it did not constitute genocide:  “It is interesting, and perhaps suggestive, that Barnes uses the terms "genocide," "holocaust," and "mass murder" as if they were interchangeable.”<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Noam_Chomsky#Position_on_Cambodian_atrocities_criticized</ref>   

#Wikipedia’s article on “Criticism of Noam Chomsky” (the aforementioned extreme left-wing propagandist and genocide denier) is nothing but an entire page dedicated to defending him and endorsing his conspiracy theories.  It is written in such a biased manner as to imply that Chomsky was ''correct'' to deny the Cambodian genocide.  This pages ''endorses'' the notion that the "total population decline" due to the policies of the Khmer Rouge was "about 400,000" Cambodians (off by nearly a factor of ten, and more than a factor of ten when you add the 1.5 million murdered by Samrin and the Vietnamese after 1979) and further favorably cites the following quote to demonstrate that it did not constitute genocide:  “It is interesting, and perhaps suggestive, that Barnes uses the terms "genocide," "holocaust," and "mass murder" as if they were interchangeable.”<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Noam_Chomsky#Position_on_Cambodian_atrocities_criticized</ref>   

#In 2002, Chomsky made the following factually inaccurate<ref>http://oliverkamm.typepad.com/blog/2004/10/chomsky_redux.html</ref><ref>http://www.leftwatch.com/articles/2002/how-many-people-died-as-a-result-of-us-bombing-in-sudan/</ref><ref>http://www.leftwatch.com/articles/2002/chomsky-needs-a-fact-checker/</ref> claim about President [[Clinton]]’s bombing of the [[Sudan]]:  "That one bombing, according to the estimates made by the German Embassy in Sudan and Human Rights Watch, probably led to tens of thousands of deaths."  Wikipedia has explicitly and in no uncertain terms endorsed this baseless assertion.  On Wikipedia’s "Criticism of Noam Chomsky" page, the following is stated as a categorical fact:  "Chomsky's claim about the German Embassy in Sudan was correct."<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Noam_Chomsky#Improper_attribution_of_a_quote</ref>  It was most certainly not:  A former German ambassador who was nowhere near Sudan at the time did make a similar off-the-record self-described “guess” sans any evidence to a magazine that refused to endorse the assertion, with HRW strongly disputing the claim, but the total number of confirmed deaths from the bombing is 1.<ref>http://oliverkamm.typepad.com/blog/2004/10/chomsky_redux.html</ref> It might be profitable to note that, according to Chomsky's own elaboration on the subject, most of those "excess deaths" would have been the consequence of US aid workers temporarily leaving the country for fear of reprisals.  Since the US bombed Sudan in response to its vicious sponsorship of terrorist atrocities against American targets in Africa that murdered hundreds of people, apparently both Chomsky and Wikipedia conclude that it would be criminal for the United States to ''not'' aid states that sponsor acts of war against it.

#In 2002, Chomsky made the following factually inaccurate<ref>http://oliverkamm.typepad.com/blog/2004/10/chomsky_redux.html</ref><ref>http://www.leftwatch.com/articles/2002/how-many-people-died-as-a-result-of-us-bombing-in-sudan/</ref><ref>http://www.leftwatch.com/articles/2002/chomsky-needs-a-fact-checker/</ref> claim about President [[Clinton]]’s bombing of the [[Sudan]]:  "That one bombing, according to the estimates made by the German Embassy in Sudan and Human Rights Watch, probably led to tens of thousands of deaths."  Wikipedia has explicitly and in no uncertain terms endorsed this baseless assertion.  On Wikipedia’s "Criticism of Noam Chomsky" page, the following is stated as a categorical fact:  "Chomsky's claim about the German Embassy in Sudan was correct."<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Noam_Chomsky#Improper_attribution_of_a_quote</ref>  It was most certainly not:  A former German ambassador who was nowhere near Sudan at the time did make a similar off-the-record self-described “guess” sans any evidence to a magazine that refused to endorse the assertion, with HRW strongly disputing the claim, but the total number of confirmed deaths from the bombing is 1.<ref>http://oliverkamm.typepad.com/blog/2004/10/chomsky_redux.html</ref> It might be profitable to note that, according to Chomsky's own elaboration on the subject, most of those "excess deaths" would have been the consequence of US aid workers temporarily leaving the country for fear of reprisals.  Since the US bombed Sudan in response to its vicious sponsorship of terrorist atrocities against American targets in Africa that murdered hundreds of people, apparently both Chomsky and Wikipedia conclude that it would be criminal for the United States to ''not'' aid states that sponsor acts of war against it.

#Wikipedia’s "Noam Chomsky" article claims that the atrocities in Communist Cambodia under Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were "objectively similar except for the alignment of domestic élite interests" to those perpetrated in [[East Timor]] by the armed forces of [[Indonesia]].<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky#Influence_in_other_fields</ref>  In fact, genocide investigators have determined that the Khmer Rouge perpetrated at least 1.1 million violent killings in three years, and estimated that the full toll might have reached 1.5 million.  The estimate was subsequently raised to at least 1.39 million violent killings, a sum which represents no more than ''half'' the total death toll.<ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/deaths.htm</ref><ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/toll.htm</ref>  A Truth Commission found that the Indonesian army had perpetrated 18,600 violent killings in East Timor over 24 years, and had caused at least 75,000 additional excess deaths from hunger and illness.<ref>Final Report of the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor (CAVR), January 30, 2006, part 6, paras. 47, 56-7: http://www.ictj.org/en/news/features/846.html</ref>  Comparable?  Objective?  You decide.

#Wikipedia’s "Noam Chomsky" article claims that the atrocities in Communist Cambodia under Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were "objectively similar except for the alignment of domestic élite interests" to those perpetrated in [[East Timor]] by the armed forces of [[Indonesia]].<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky#Influence_in_other_fields</ref>  In fact, genocide investigators have determined that the Khmer Rouge perpetrated at least 1.1 million violent killings in three years, and estimated that the full toll from executions alone might have reached 1.5 million, a sum which represents no more than ''half'' the total death toll.<ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/deaths.htm</ref><ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/toll.htm</ref>  A Truth Commission found that the Indonesian army had perpetrated 18,600 violent killings in East Timor over 24 years, and had caused at least 75,000 additional excess deaths from hunger and illness.<ref>Final Report of the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor (CAVR), January 30, 2006, part 6, paras. 47, 56-7: http://www.ictj.org/en/news/features/846.html</ref>  Comparable?  Objective?  You decide.

#Wikipedia's article on the [[Korean War]] claims, without offering any citation in support, that up to 1.2 million South Koreans had been killed by the state prior to or during the invasion from North Korea.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War#Bodo_League_anti.E2.80.93communist_massacre</ref>  It further favorably cites a quote from a South Korean victim that "when the people from the other side [North Korea] came here, they didn't kill many people."  Although the quote in question is apparently accurate, the way in which Wikipedia characterizes these events might lead readers to perceive the Communist aggression as a ''liberation'' from oppressive right-wing tyranny.  In response, it should be noted that:  Although there is no source to check as regards their numbers, it seems likely that their 1.2 million figure is heavily exaggerated, and may come from official Communist propaganda, because the government of South Korea never killed anything like that subsequently and eventually gave up power voluntarily and held free elections; the North Koreans ''did'' kill many people, the war of aggression they started cost 2.5 million lives<ref>http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP10.HTM</ref>, they worked 500,000 South Korean POWs to death in concentration camps<ref>http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP10.HTM</ref>, and given the large number of "hostiles" sent to perform hard labor in North Korea (not counting those in the concentration camps)--possibly more than 4 million in 1989 alone according to human rights groups--more than 2 million North Koreans have been killed by the state through slave labor since the end of the war if we assume a death rate of just over 1%.<ref>http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP10.HTM</ref>  A ''further'' 3 million North Koreans have been starved to death by the state in just the most recent famine.<ref>http://www.rense.com/political/koreastarve.htm</ref>

#Wikipedia's article on the [[Korean War]] claims, without offering any citation in support, that up to 1.2 million South Koreans had been killed by the state prior to or during the invasion from North Korea.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War#Bodo_League_anti.E2.80.93communist_massacre</ref>  It further favorably cites a quote from a South Korean victim that "when the people from the other side [North Korea] came here, they didn't kill many people."  Although the quote in question is apparently accurate, the way in which Wikipedia characterizes these events might lead readers to perceive the Communist aggression as a ''liberation'' from oppressive right-wing tyranny.  In response, it should be noted that:  Although there is no source to check as regards their numbers, it seems likely that their 1.2 million figure is heavily exaggerated, and may come from official Communist propaganda, because the government of South Korea never killed anything like that subsequently and eventually gave up power voluntarily and held free elections; the North Koreans ''did'' kill many people, the war of aggression they started cost 2.5 million lives<ref>http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP10.HTM</ref>, they worked 500,000 South Korean POWs to death in concentration camps<ref>http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP10.HTM</ref>, and given the large number of "hostiles" sent to perform hard labor in North Korea (not counting those in the concentration camps)--possibly more than 4 million in 1989 alone according to human rights groups--more than 2 million North Koreans have been killed by the state through slave labor since the end of the war if we assume a death rate of just over 1%.<ref>http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP10.HTM</ref>  A ''further'' 3 million North Koreans have been starved to death by the state in just the most recent famine.<ref>http://www.rense.com/political/koreastarve.htm</ref>

#In Wikipedia’s article on the Indonesian mass killings of suspected leftists and Communists in the mid-sixties, in which up to one million people were killed, Wikipedia claims the following: “The massacres were described by Time as 'The West's Best News in Asia'.[57] A headline in US News and World Report read: 'Indonesia: Hope... where there was once none'.[58] New York Times columnist James Reston celebrated 'A gleam of light in Asia'.[59]”<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_killings_of_1965%E2%80%931966#U.S._involvement_and_reaction</ref>  Time Magazine never referred to the slaughter as “The West’s Best News in Asia,” it vociferously condemned the “boiling bloodbath” and said that the prospects of regional peace and of Indonesian neutrality in the Cold War were “the West’s best news for years in Asia.”<ref>Time, July 15, 1966.</ref>  A New York Times op-ed listed strategic changes in Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Japan, the Philippines and China under the headline: “Washington: A Gleam of Light in Asia.”<ref>James Reston, “Washington: A Gleam of Light in Asia,” New York Times, June 19, 1966; Editorial, New York Times, August 25, 1966.</ref>

#In Wikipedia’s article on the Indonesian mass killings of suspected leftists and Communists in the mid-sixties, in which up to one million people were killed, Wikipedia claims the following: “The massacres were described by Time as 'The West's Best News in Asia'.[57] A headline in US News and World Report read: 'Indonesia: Hope... where there was once none'.[58] New York Times columnist James Reston celebrated 'A gleam of light in Asia'.[59]”<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_killings_of_1965%E2%80%931966#U.S._involvement_and_reaction</ref>  Time Magazine never referred to the slaughter as “The West’s Best News in Asia,” it vociferously condemned the “boiling bloodbath” and said that the prospects of regional peace and of Indonesian neutrality in the Cold War were “the West’s best news for years in Asia.”<ref>Time, July 15, 1966.</ref>  A New York Times op-ed listed strategic changes in Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Japan, the Philippines and China under the headline: “Washington: A Gleam of Light in Asia.”<ref>James Reston, “Washington: A Gleam of Light in Asia,” New York Times, June 19, 1966; Editorial, New York Times, August 25, 1966.</ref>