Word: cambodians
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...DIED. KHIEU PONNARY, 83, first wife of late Cambodian dictator and Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot; after decades of incapacitating mental illness; in Pailin, Cambodia. The daughter of a wealthy Phnom Penh family, Khieu Ponnary met Pol Pot in Paris and married him in 1956. Following the Khmer Rouge's 1979 overthrow, Pol Pot left her for a younger woman...
...Queen chats with him for 10 minutes before alerting staff. Home Secretary William Whitelaw announces a "major shake-up" in palace security. Members of the opposition Labour Party call Whitelaw's comment that the incident represented a serious failure in security arrangements "the understatement of the year." January 1994 Cambodian student David Kang runs toward Prince Charles and fires two shots from a starting pistol at an event in Sydney. Charles displays considerable sangfroid as his would-be assailant is wrestled to the ground a meter away from him. He maintains that security was "well handled" by Australian police. February...
...raconteur, the kind of person you'd want to journey with even if the destination was a nihilistic hell. His stories are peppered with amusing asides and deft observations, not just from him but his fellow travelers: "What a strangely consistent country this is," remarks his girlfriend about a Cambodian river that because of flooding, reverses its current twice a year. "Even the river lacks a clear sense of direction." Oddly, Dyer's narrative also loses its sense of direction in the final chapter, just as he reaches what he has described throughout the book as the ultimate Zone?Burning...
...deputy police commissioner, General Sunthorn Saikwan, Arifin had links to a terror cell busted in Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh, in May. During that sweep, police arrested two Thais?both from the south?and an Egyptian, and followed that up on June 11 with the capture of a Cambodian believed to be a member of the same cell. The Thai and Egyptian men were teachers at an Islamic school funded by the Saudi charity Om al-Qura. The charity is believed to have been used by al-Qaeda to fund its own activities and those of JI. "We're talking...
...Mostly, though, the tone in the Asian movies was either conciliatory or opaque. Rithy Panh's documentary S21: the Khmer Rouge Killing Machine shows some of the Cambodian perpetrators of genocide in the '70s confronted by their victims or victims' survivors. It's long and harrowing but never shrill, which makes the poise of the victims even more poignant...