Mr. Romney has denounced the claim, widely labeled as misleading by news organizations, as "reminiscent of the Nixon era".
The government has denied shelling the area where an estimated 50,000 civilians remain trapped and said the rebels were behind the shelling, a claim widely disputed by human rights groups and foreign governments.
This vigilante action was often based on the idea that "strange", pale-skinned, Vietnamese-looking voters unable to speak Khmer had been issued with temporary election IDs to cast ghost votes for the ruling party – a claim widely believed, but not thoroughly substantiated, by many opposition supporters.
The memory of that massacre provides a heartening reminder that there is a good deal of both hype and plain ignorance behind the claim, widely upheld among the political classes this year, that we are in the throes of the bitterest, most polarizing electoral contest in American history.
While the government had no immediate comment on the attack, it has denied using artillery, heavy weapons or airstrikes in the area — a claim widely disputed by human rights groups and foreign governments — and has accused the rebels of shelling their fellow Tamil citizens.
For Osborne, the benefits are obvious too: highlighting and reinforcing Labour's crisis, while having a new symbol to back his contentious claim – widely accepted among commentators and the BBC – that it is now the Conservatives who are on the vaguely defined centre ground.
As part of Kobach's role, the Kansas Secretary of State and immigration hard-liner will be investigating the president's claim — widely disputed — that "millions of illegals" voted in the 2016 election.
Why? Earlier this year, the US website The Smoking Gun published a 4,000-word 4,000-wordinvestigation's clainto- widely mAkonduring his meteoric rise to worldwide prominence - to have spent some years in prison as a result of a conviction for car theft.
These claims were widely reported, it added.
His claims were widely discredited, including by Jersey City's mayor.
