Malcolm Caldwell
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Malcolm Caldwell (1931-1978) was a British academic and a prolific Marxist writer. His works include: "The Wealth of Some Nations", "Marx and the Third World", and "Ten Years' Military Terror in Indonesia" [1].
Caldwell was sympathetic to the Khmer Rouge. Along with Elizabeth Becker and Richard Dudman, he was part of the first group of Westerners invited to visit Cambodia since the Khmer Rouge closed the country. They were given 10-day structured tours of the country and a private audience with Pol Pot, experiences that apparently only intensified Caldwell's support for the regime. He was murdered by unknown assailants on the eve of the Vietnamese invasion in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in 1978 (Short, 2004:393-4).
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- Short, Philip. Pol Pot The History of a Nightmare. John Murray, 2004. ISBN 0-7195-6569-3
| Preceded by Sheila Oakes |
Chair of CND 1968–1970 |
Succeeded by April Carter |
