Word: cambodians
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...Putting a Permanent Lid on Pol Pot By ROBERT HORN When Pol Pot died peacefully in his sleep in the Cambodian jungle in 1998, survivors of his genocidal rule rued that the infamous Khmer Rouge leader never stood trial for his crimes. It turns out that some form of jungle justice may have been meted out to Brother Number One after all. Thailand's Army Commander in Chief General Surayud Chulanont claimed last week he had evidence Pol Pot had actually been poisoned. According to Surayud, intelligence and autopsy reports suggest there were traces of toxic chemicals...
Along with her Cambodian colleague Sok Thim, she founded the Cambodian Health Committee, a tuberculosis treatment program that has successfully cured over 3000 patients to date...
...robber's bullet with your teeth?or so goes an apocryphal tale of a now legendary bus driver. Then get another one the next year, because you never know how much protection you might need. Somchai, a former soldier, says he once stepped on a land mine at the Cambodian border, but the shrapnel never pierced his tattooed legs. Somchai has returned for some more tattooing. His current profession: "None of your business...
...Prime Minister Hun Sen (right), on a roll after sweeping last week's local elections, said Khmer Rouge leaders will be tried in local courts under local law by the end of this year. So thoroughly have the Khmer Rouge seeped into Cambodian society?Hun Sen himself was a low-level commander?that many fear a U.N. trial could plunge the country back into a civil war that only ended...
...classically Khmer, are weathered and determined, like the busts on the walls of Angkor Wat. The body language of a few, clearly the bosses, is menacing. No need to read the captions: the atmosphere in these pictures portends the forced evacuation of the city and the beginning of the Cambodian holocaust...