Yet detailed records of the horror exist in the party’s own national
and local archives.
Access to these files would have been unimaginable even 10 years ago,
but a quiet revolution has been taking place over the past few years
as vast troves of documents have gradually been declassified. While
the most sensitive information still remains locked up, researchers
are being allowed for the first time to rummage through the dark night
of the Maoist era.
http://nyti.ms/f1Iv2F
Source:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/opinion/16iht-eddikotter16.html?_r=3