…And on the subject of Cambodia, below is a link to an article (much, much better than mine) on the bizarre death of Scottish Pol Pot apologist Malcolm Caldwell:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jan/10/malcolm-caldwell-pol-pot-murder
For all I know Caldwell may have been brilliant, but on the subject of Cambodia he was the worst kind of pseudo-academic. When presented with a mountain of evidence pointing one way, and next to no evidence pointing the other, he chose to go the no-evidence route for purely ideological reasons. See also: Holocaust denial, creationism, anti-vaccinationists.
Ultimately, all that made him unusual was that he paid for it.
A Dizzy Business 