headlines about Khmer rouge
After the Khmer rouges there were many headlines about what had happened in Cambodia. There were also lots of headlines about the Khmer Rouge going on trial. A big headline that took place was about the Khmer Rouge leaders on trial. Many headlines claimed that the U.S was going to punish these Khmer Rouge leaders greatly and make them pay for what they did to the Cambodians. However most of these leaders were not punished as claimed in the headlines and were able to live a normal life after the genocide.
Other headlines around the world in the late 70's
The Khmer Rouge headlines in the 1970's were not nearly as important for Americans as they should have been. For many different newspapers the headlines about the Khmer Rouge were in the back of the newspaper, and for some they weren't even there. There were many other things that Americans cared about more and that were in the front page. For example there were things like how the president had managed to escape from being assassinated, or about how the link up of space crafts Apollo and Soyuz had just occurred. There was even more articles on the 1976 Olympics in Canada instead of millions of Cambodians dying. Just shows us how much we care about other people in the world and about how clueless we are when it comes to genocides.