Leo Cherne of Freedom House used slightly different terms to describe what Goodfellow describes as "a journey away from certain death." Cherne states. "It took the Nazis 6 years to kill 9 million human beings. It appears to have taken 1 day to inflict catastrophic disaster on more than 3 million Cambodians." In his article Goodfellow also disparages any "eyewitness acounts" of supposed bloodbaths. Goodfellow states. "The eyewitness accounts turned out to be second- or thirdhand rumors. and the stories quickly disappeared in the press in the absence of any substantial evidence." On July 15 in the New York Times a refugee from Cambodia was quoted. "So little is allowed that you dont know what they might shoot you for." Also. a front page article from the Washington Post of July 21. 1975. entitled "Fleeing Cambodians Tell of Khmer Rouge Killings" has the following to report: