“There is a certain racism and classism here that tells us that we should not take seriously the words of peasants or that we should look down on them.” But he had seen the doubters proven wrong once outsiders visited Cambodia in the early 1980s. “The real lesson of my experiences in these camps over the years is that refugees don’t lie,” Galbraith reflects. “This is not to say that we should accept one account from one refugee, but in the case of the Cambodians, the Kurds, and later the Bosnians, there were thousands and thousands of witnesses to the crimes. We must learn to believe them.”
