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...days after Vietnamese troops drove Pol Pot from power in 1979, a Cambodian farmer named Neang Say returned to his home village of Choeung Ek on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. He came upon a tree with blood, brain matter and hair embedded in the bark. Nearby he found an open pit filled with corpses?one of the 129 mass graves dug by the Khmer Rouge for the estimated 17,000 people they executed at the secluded spot. Neang Say was one of the first people to bring Choeung Ek's horrors to the attention of the invading Vietnamese...
...Last week, after almost 20 years as the general manager of the Choeung Ek genocide memorial, Neang Say revealed to the Cambodian media a second secret about the mass graves?a plan to privatize them, turning over their management to a Japanese company so they can be transformed into a revenue-generating tourist attraction. According to a contract signed on March 18, the new operator, JC Royal Co., is expected to "increase revenue for the state and develop and renovate the beauty of Choeung Ek killing fields." JC Royal is to pay the municipality of Phnom Penh...
Monkey Dance is the second major documentary by Mallozzi, a current TF for Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) 150ar, “Film Production: Intermediate Studio Course.” Following three teenage Cambodian-American dancers from Lowell, Massachusetts over the course of three years in their lives, the film documents a wealth of situations that are rife with tense emotion—car crashes, prison sentences, and college financial aid issues...
...battle against bird flu hinges on information, cooperation and quick response?if the disease is spreading under the radar in Cambodia, it could wreck regional control efforts. With the help of the WHO, Cambodian officials have begun to slowly step up surveillance and education programs. But to contain the disease, Cambodia and its neighbors would need to radically modernize their animal husbandry practices, separating species (ducks are able to spread the virus without showing symptoms), keeping birds in pens and properly vaccinating flocks. The trouble is, such measures would require hundreds of millions of dollars to educate and equip poor...
...distant worry. That complacency is both understandable and dangerous. "A problem in a remote part of the world becomes a world problem overnight," Dr. Julie Gerberding, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters last week. If so, the blind faith of a Cambodian chicken seller in the preventative powers of sunlight and local earth should be ample cause for international concern...