Talk:Stephen Barber (political scientist)

Stephen Barber Confusion

I recently wrote this in an edit of this Stephen Barber page:

Barber's credentials as a political scientist and historian were called into question after the release of 2002's "Annihilation Zones," in which Barber made patently false claims. In the book, Barber says that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin sodomized Adolf Hitler (page 98) and that Allied General McArther and Japanese Emperor Hirohito had homosexual encounters (page 73). Barber also says that Pol Pot ordered a squadron of 16-year-old girls to insert grenades into their anuses and allow themselves to be sodomized by Lon Nol's troops, which the girls somehow survived, showing their bodies as trophies (page 137). Among other absurd claims, Barber says that "many of the city's [Manilla's] young female population were simultanously sodomized and eaten alive by gangs of [Japanese] soldiers" (page 57).:::

It turns out there are two different Stephen Barbers. I received an e-mail from the British professor saying that he's "not guilty." I think the actual Stephen Barber who wrote "Annihilation Zones" is out of San Francisco. Mvblair 14:59, 19 June 2007 (UTC)