Ethnic Cleansers
Stephen Smith, 8 October 1992
Four Hours in My Lai: A War Crime and its Aftermath
by Michael Bilton and Kevin Sim.
Viking, 430 pp., £17.99, May 1992,0 670 83233 2 Show More
by Michael Bilton and Kevin Sim.
Viking, 430 pp., £17.99, May 1992,
Tiger Balm: Travels in Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia
by Lucretia Stewart.
Chatto, 261 pp., £10.99, June 1992,0 7011 3892 0 Show More
by Lucretia Stewart.
Chatto, 261 pp., £10.99, June 1992,
“... In their attempt to answer the intractable ‘why’ of the massacre, Michael Bilton and Kevin Sim sense that the contributory factors they painstakingly assemble don’t quite amount to a reason, and reach for the viral theory. ‘Atrocity,’ they opine, ‘is like a virus known to strike soldiers in combat.’ Charlie Company of the Americal ... ”