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ANGELINA JOLIE is with child. No, not that way. The genetically blessed mother of Cambodian-born MADDOX, 3, is apparently more interested in world peace than in procreation and has adopted internationally again. With much buzzed-about co-star Brad Pitt accompanying her--but not sharing in the adoption--Jolie picked up 5-month-old baby Zahara Marley, an AIDS orphan, in Ethiopia, last week. Maddox and she "are very happy to have a new addition to our family," Jolie told People. Aww ... How long before Zahara has her own punk-rock 'do just like her brother...
...DIED. MAXIM MICHALIK, 2, Canadian-born schoolboy; after being shot during an eight-hour siege of an international school; in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Chea Sokhom, 23, a former driver for a South Korean restaurant owner, and three accomplices entered the school and took about 30 schoolchildren and teachers hostage. Cambodian police delivered $30,000 in ransom and a van per the four's demands, but they were overpowered by police and arrested before they could drive away. Police reported that Sokhom wanted to take revenge on his former employer, who he said had slapped him, by kidnapping...
...ARRESTED. CHHUN YASITH, 48, Cambodian-American accountant and leader of the U.S.-based Cambodian Freedom Fighters; on federal charges of conspiracy to kill in a foreign country and engaging in a military expedition against a friendly nation, for allegedly orchestrating a failed 2000 coup against Cambodian leader Hun Sen; in Long Beach, California. In the attack, code named Operation Volcano, some 70 rebels unsuccessfully stormed government buildings in Phnom Penh, leaving dozens injured and eight people killed. Chhun, who has called Hun Sen's regime a puppet of Communist Vietnam, claimed at the time that the attack was a coup...
Schanberg has also written a book on the same topic, “The Death and Life of Dith Pran,” which tells the story of one Cambodian man’s struggle for survival during the Khmer Rouge regime. Schanberg described Dith as “my friend and interpreter and lifesaver.” The book inspired the 1984 film “The Killing Fields,” of which Schanberg is the protagonist...
...million Estimated cost of an international tribunal to try surviving leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime, which was responsible for the deaths of some 1.7 million people from 1975 to 1979 $1.5 million Amount the Cambodian government says it can afford to contribute...