William Noseworthy on State-Sponsored Violence in Cambodia & Indonesia

Episode 7 - Joy Block and Galen Poor talk with William Noseworthy, Assistant Professor of History at McNeese State University. A specialist in Southeast Asian History, Noseworthy compares the political violence in Indonesia under Suharto and in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. Noseworthy looks into how both events pursued policies of genocide. Whether directed against communists or non-communists ostensibly, violence in both countries held strong ethnic and sometimes religious components.