I read with great interest Kunda Dixit's chronicle of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia (Memories of a holocaust', #239). Nepal could unfortunately be the next 'pure' Maoist playground. What does the power game between Prachanda and Baburam mean? They should learn their lessons from other communist revolutions.

Jean-Pierre Rigal,
Paris

. In the list of books on Cambodia that accompanied Kunda Dixit's shocking retrospective of the Khmer Rouge genocide there are two really good books missing: Nayan Chanda's classic research work, Brother Enemy, and the recently published Pol Pot, the Killer Smile by Philip Short who tries to fathom Pol Pot's mysterious personality.

M Gilbert,
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