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...Buddhas were thrown into rivers or used as firewood," recalls Oum Soum, 62, deputy director of Phnom-Penh's Buddhist Institute. "Wats not destroyed became fertilizer warehouses." Bonzes were denounced as "parasites." The lucky ones were merely driven from their temples and into the fields. Of 80,000 Cambodian monks, 50,000 were murdered-often beaten to death-during the three years of Pol Pot's savage rule...
...trying to finish a book about Washington, D.C., during World War II, with the aid of his son Alan, 30, a teacher at Harvard and M.I.T. His other children: Joel, 28, a reporter at the Louisville Courier-Journal, who this year won a Pulitzer Prize for a series on Cambodian refugees; John, 24, a student at American University...
There is something-and these days, when most movies resemble Bel Air rummage sales, it seems a precious thing-called directorial integrity. It does not mean that the man behind the camera tithes his salary for Cambodian refugees; it means he knows how to make movies: how to shoot and edit pieces of film so they cohere, blend to create laughter or suspense, speak eloquently in the special language of the cinema. Steven Spielberg, Alan J. Pakula, Martin Scorsese, John Carpenter know the language. So does Australian Director George Miller, whose first feature contains sequences of violent, pure cinema poetry...
...peaceful little Thai town about a mile from the Cambodian border. Early one morning last week the villagers were awakened by the sound of gunfire. Then, over a loudspeaker came an unfamiliar voice: "We won't kill any Thais. All we will take is some food." Similar sounds awakened Cambodian refugees at two camps straddling the nearby border between Thailand and Cambodia. All too soon they recognized the fatigue-clad intruders who had stolen into their midst under cover of darkness as Vietnamese soldiers. As back-up mortar and artillery fire echoed in the distance, the Vietnamese began digging...
...Vietnamese incursion into Thailand was mercifully brief. Nonetheless it raised international alarms that Hanoi was threatening to pursue into Thailand its war against Cambodian Khmer Rouge guerrillas still loyal to the ousted Pol Pot regime. Many of the estimated 600,000 Cambodians who have fled to Thailand or border camps over the past two years have been sympathetic to either the Khmer Rouge or non-Communist groups known collectively as the Khmer Serei. All oppose the Hanoi-installed regime of Heng Samrin in Phnom-Penh. By midweek virtually all of the Vietnamese had withdrawn. But the action appeared to have...