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When he arrived in Phnom Penh in August 1973, Roland Neveu was 23 years old and barely experienced enough to call himself a photographer. He stayed seven weeks until he ran out of money, but that was long enough to get hooked. Cambodia?its war, its people, its tragedy?became an obsession. After a year of mandatory military service back home in France, he returned to Cambodia in 1975, just as the Khmer Rouge swept to power and plunged the country into the abyss. For the next 25 years Neveu would return to photograph whenever he could...
...What is it about Cambodia that renders it so irresistible to writers and photographers? Are we beguiled by the gentleness of the people? Or by the enigma of why a country once famed for its lotus-eaters should be so bedeviled by war and suffering, much of it self-inflicted? Whatever the root of Neveu's obsession, we all benefit from his pictures, which are powerfully displayed in Cambodia: The Years of Turmoil (Asia Horizons; 160 pages...
...Those of us who worked in Cambodia in the early 1970s as the noose tightened around Phnom Penh knew little of the Khmer Rouge. They were not like the North Vietnamese communists who held press receptions in Paris. When a few of our colleagues ventured into the forest on the promise of friendly contact with the Khmer Rouge, they never returned...
...continue fighting. Countless other guerrilla forces were spawned. Neveu seems to have run with them all. He catches wounded soldiers on film as they are being dragged to safety, their eyes glazed and focused on a middle space beyond the camera. Is it 1973 or 1985? Violence in Cambodia is a continuum...
Hitchens’s other books already walk the path of resistance, including diatribes against President Clinton (No One Left to Lie To, 1999), Mother Teresa (The Missionary Position, 1995) and, most recently, Henry Kissinger, whom he claimed should be indicted for war crimes in Vietnam, Cambodia, East Timor and Chile, to name...