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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...
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...
...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...
...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...