Word: khmers
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...Thim laughs when you ask about the day in 1975 when the Khmer Rouge came to his village in Cambodia and put an end to his medical education and his freedom. He laughs about the nearly four years he endured in a forced-labor camp, the decade he spent working with tuberculosis patients in refugee camps along the Thailand-Cambodia border. He laughs about the 20-hr. days he put in getting the NGO he co-founded, the Cambodian Health Committee (CHC), off the ground--the only work that was harder than Khmer Rouge re-education. The one thing...
...CAPTURED. CHHOUK RIN, 51, former Khmer Rouge commander convicted in absentia in 2002 for his role in a deadly train raid; in Anlong Veng, Cambodia. In 1994 fighters led by Chhouk Rin attacked a train bound for the coastal city of Sihanoukville, killing 13 Cambodians and abducting Frenchman Jean-Michel Braquet, Briton Mark Slater and Australian David Wilson. The three backpackers were executed after ransom negotiations collapsed weeks later. Sentenced to life in prison but free while his case was being appealed, Chhouk Rin fled after the Supreme Court upheld his conviction and issued a warrant for his arrest...
...with the locals. This is a valid, if modest, insight, and Gray projects himself agreeably as a rational naif. But The Killing Fields took up themes far transcending show-biz silliness. It was about the 1975 fall of America's Cambodian client state to the genocidal revolutionaries of the Khmer Rouge. Gray's attempt to deal wryly with themes on this scale finally fails. His is a dispassionate sensibility, and he is not a strong enough actor -- nor has he a strong enough intelligence -- to fight his way out of the false analogy he has drawn between moviemaking and tragic...
DIED. Lon Nol, 72, President of Cambodia from 1972 to 1975; of heart disease; in Fullerton, Calif. A former military Chief of Staff, Defense Minister and Premier, Lon Nol ended the 1,000-year-old Khmer monarchy by overthrowing Prince Norodom Sihanouk in 1970 while he was out of the country. Although Lon Nol's republic was propped up by American military aid, it proved unpopular, corrupt and too weak to resist the forces of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, who after seizing power killed an estimated one million Cambodians (out of 7.3 million). Shortly before Lon Nol fled...
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...