Between 1975 and 1979, Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime murdered upwards of one million Cambodians.

Across the globe, almost everyone reeled in horror. Not so the American Friends Service Committee, the official NGO of the Society of Friends, or, as they are better known, the Quakers. The AFSC defended Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, even as word emerged that the group had killed one million citizens.