Cambodia’s Overlooked Early Warning: Ith Sarin’s Memoir and the Khmer Rouge Before 1975
The Diplomat revisits Ith Sarin’s 1973 memoir, which offered unusually early detail on Khmer Rouge leadership, governance practices, and political intentions but was widely discounted by many foreign observers at the time. New interview material from 2025 suggests Sarin later cooperated with Khmer Republic institutions and that a more detailed private French report existed alongside the public Khmer text.