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...proposed an end to Viet Nam's six-year 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...
...days after Vietnamese troops drove Pol Pot from power in 1979, a Cambodian farmer named 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...
...exemplary moment, one of the teens blandly mentions her parents’ lives under the “Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot, and all that” in the same tone she uses to describe getting her car detailed. In such a scene, Mallozzi doesn’t need flashy cinematic technique. She forces the audience to ask itself gut-wrenching questions about cultural memory and assimilation, by presenting the girl’s words without pretension or prejudice. Over three grueling years of filming, Mallozzi was able to capture a wealth of genuinely thought-provoking moments like this...
Maybe all the Pol Pot costumes were taken. It's hard to imagine what made dressing up as a Nazi seem like a good idea to PRINCE HARRY, 20, who appalled Britons by wearing a swastika armband to a party this month. Though the young royal issued a statement saying "It was a poor choice of a costume, and I apologize," Jewish groups called for him to show more contrition and attend a ceremony at Auschwitz on Jan. 27. This isn't the first time Harry's blunders have embarrassed the royal family. Last fall he socked a photographer outside...
When Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia on Christmas Day in 1978, it was the beginning of the end for the murderous Khmer Rouge. Pol Pot and his deputies fled into jungle exile, where the so-called Brother No. 1 died in 1998. A much less exalted band of 12, including three Khmer Rouge soldiers and their wives, decided to wait out the invasion in a remote part of Cambodia's northeast known as the Dragon's Tail. They stayed there for 26 years. Last month, they came out of hiding to a world they didn't know existed: a country...