Word: khmers
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...years after graduating from Harvard, Schanberg won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for his coverage of Khmer Rouge’s rise to power in Cambodia. Schanberg elected to stay at his post even after the violent fall of Phnom Penh...
...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...
...occupation of Kampuchea, suggesting negotiated power sharing between Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Kampuchea's former head of state, and the Hanoi-backed regime of Heng Samrin. This could work, said Thach, only after a retreat into exile could be arranged for Pol Pot, the notorious Communist leader of Kampuchea's Khmer Rouge...
...Neang Say returned to his home village of Choeung Ek on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. He came upon a tree with blood, brain matter and hair embedded in the bark. Nearby he found an open pit filled with corpses?one of the 129 mass graves dug by the Khmer Rouge for the estimated 17,000 people they executed at the secluded spot. Neang Say was one of the first people to bring Choeung Ek's horrors to the attention of the invading Vietnamese and the outside world. In the 26 years since then, thousands of foreign tourists have journeyed...
...Prime Minister Hun Sen, was the chairman of JC Royal, and that he would donate any profit from the killing fields to the Sun Fund, a philanthropic organization established by the Prime Minister in 2002. But critics of the deal have not been appeased. Youk Chhang, director of a Khmer Rouge archive called the Documentation Centre of Cambodia, wrote a letter to Prime Minister Hun Sen last week seeking his intervention. "Any contract contains benefits, and we should not benefit from the souls of those who have died," says Youk Chhang. "Genocide should not be commercialized. It is already...