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...list of war zones was narrowed to five: Northern Ireland; Israel, including the occupied West Bank; Lebanon; Thailand, where survivors of Cambodia's years of terror have fled; and Hong Kong, refuge of thousands of boat people from Viet Nam. Rosenblatt spent a week in each area, meeting with scores of children. They talked...
...will you go back to Cambodia one day and fight the Khmer Rouge...
...attitude inherited from an agrarian people accustomed to gentleness and passivity. To be sure, there was a long time, between the 9th and 15th centuries, when Khmer culture sustained a golden age-the period of Angkor Wat with its five peaked towers and massive stone gods. But fundamentally, Cambodia has remained a village nation, and the values of Pol Pot, not to mention his horrors, must have seemed as shocking as they were terrifying. The children in Khao I Dang have simple values. They have been taught to honor the land, the country, their dead ancestors, their parents and their...
...first came to Khao I Dang. She too did a drawing when she arrived, but unlike Kim Seng, she did not explain it, and in fact said almost nothing at all during her first two years at the camp. Sokhar is well fed, and soft-featured, though "in Cambodia I met with starvation." She has crying fits still, but is beginning to talk. It is difficult, however, to speak of her drawing, which, while primitive, requires an explanation...
That irony is not entirely consoling to the West. For one thing, even when Communists are fighting among themselves, their conflicts threaten to spread. The ongoing civil war in Cambodia, between the China-backed forces of Pol Pot and the Vietnamese puppet regime of President Heng Samrin could spill over into Thailand. A new outbreak of war between Viet Nam and China could embroil all of Southeast Asia...