Word: potted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...POT'S REIGN OF TERROR...
Roger Rosenblatt only touched on the tragedy that befell the Cambodian people at the hands of Pol Pot and his followers [ESSAY, Aug. 18]. It's difficult to imagine the hardship and cruelty that Cambodians endured during Pol Pot's reign of terror. But Rosenblatt apparently let his imagination run wild when he blamed the U.S. bombing of Cambodia during the Vietnam War as the destabilizing influence that allowed Pol Pot to flourish. I could have sworn we were bombing the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops that sought refuge in Cambodia after attacking our own troops in South Vietnam...
...pick up a mine, smiles at the Halo de-miners. Five villagers have stepped on mines in the past three years. "We have to go into the forest to get bamboo shoots and wood," he says. "Everyone is scared of mines, but if we don't go, the pot is empty. So it is good that they come here to take away mines. Next we want them to clear a way to the water." He points with the stump of his arm at a pool surrounded by a thick necklace of mines...
...that any trial would explain why Pol Pot did what he did. One looked in vain into that age-spotted, teary-eyed face for the source of the inventiveness that dreams up a portable guillotine for children. He seemed so quiet, evil recollected in tranquillity. Time passing has made him look like an ordinary man, perhaps even to those who survived and know better...
...show is a dignified call for help as well as an assertion of past cultural achievement. After 30 years of civil war and the genocidal madness of the Khmer Rouge led by Pol Pot, Cambodia's very name reeks of slaughter. The West needs to be reminded of its immense cultural heritage, and of the struggle--against all odds--to preserve it. Only a handful of Western historians and curators, mainly in France and America, are experts in ancient Cambodian art, and its fate within Cambodia for the past few decades has skirted catastrophe. Much of it has been looted...