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...Seng (see above photograph) has survived quite well for someone who, when he escaped into Thailand two years ago, was nearly dead from malnutrition. His father, a doctor, was killed by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge soldiers. The policies of the Khmer Rouge included the execution of Cambodian intellectuals. Kim Seng watched his father being taken away in a helicopter, and for a long time in the refugee camp at Khao I Dang, all he drew were pictures of helicopters...
...mother died afterward, of starvation, with Kim Seng at her side. He was eight at the time, a member of one of the mobile work teams of children instituted by Pol Pot for their ''education and well-being." The night before his mother died he was taken to her in a nearby village. He noticed how swollen she was, how frail and tired, and that she was breathing with great difficulty. Kim Seng's mother took his hand and told him that he would very soon be an orphan. Then she said: "Always remember your father...
...that time Kim Seng was already keeping a diary. He would begin his entries: "Dear friend, I turn to you in my time of sorrow and trouble . . ." On this particular night he took his diary and wrote how frightened he felt. In the morning his mother was dead. Kim Seng knelt at her bedside and prayed; then he asked a neighbor to bury his mother next to where his father lay, his father's body having been returned to the family. Kim Seng brought a shirt with him as a payment for this service...
Panic began rippling through world money. In Hong Kong, the widely watched Hang Seng index plunged a staggering 7.8%. By the time brokers arrived for work in London, they were facing mountains of sell orders. No sooner did trading begin at 9:30 a.m. than the exchange's ticker, traditionally a paradigm of understatement, burst forth with news of "widespread and indiscriminate price-slashing." Said a broker as the sell orders piled up and the share prices plunged: "It's like a free fall without a parachute." By the end of the morning, the Financial Times...
...forces closed in on Phnom-Penh last week, 17 or so foreign journalists passed up the last evacuation flight, electing instead to cover the fall of the capital. It was a perilous decision. There were reports that Khmer Rouge troops had vowed to kill any Americans they found; Chau Seng, a Khmer Rouge Politburo member in Paris, offered only an opaque promise that once the city was taken "competent authorities will examine [the journalists'] cases" before deciding their fate...