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...justice is not yet denied. Shortly after dawn on Sept. 19, Cambodian police special forces and military police surrounded a small wooden home on the outskirts of Pailin town in the country's northwest and arrested Nuon Chea, the Khmer Rouge's infamous "Brother Number Two," Pol Pot's deputy. Now 82, the most senior Khmer Rouge leader still surviving in Cambodia has had years to prepare for his eventual arrest. He surrendered to the government in 1998 but had been allowed to live in quiet retirement with his wife in a region that was a communist stronghold until...
...King wasn't about to let America's last rural Chinatown - a national historic landmark - fade into history. "You cannot condemn Locke," she told county supervisors. "This is the only Chinatown built by Chinese in America." While many other towns and cities had long hosted Chinese neighborhoods, Locke was unique for being the only town exclusively inhabited by Chinese...
...which blocked Chinese immigration for more than 60 years -meant that it shared the bachelor culture of other Chinatowns in the U.S. Still, although gambling dens and brothels flourished, residents ran an organized, tight-knit community. Because the wooden buildings were susceptible to fire, an elderly town crier patrolled the streets every night. At half-hour intervals, he rapped on a wooden block, assuring everyone that all was well. The Delta Chinese were also politically active in support of democracy back home, raising substantial funds to support the revolutionary Sun Yat-sen and the new Republic of China of which...
...King, the self-appointed "Locke Mom," moved to the town in 1949, and married a Locke native. She helped raise the couple's two children, worked as a midwife, and cared for elderly bachelors living out their final years in boarding houses. Although the California Supreme Court in 1952 struck down a law forbidding Asian immigrants from owning land, Locke had been built on private land, which was not for sale. As the town's elderly residents passed on, their children began to move to the cities and suburbs...
...October 13, Locke will erect an eight-foot-tall bronze monument to complete the Locke Community Park, a space dedicated to its Chinese pioneers. A new museum of local Chinese history will also open later this year. "I hope they will preserve the town," says King. "But nobody knows what will happen in the future...