PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - At the height of Pol Pot's genocidal Khmer Rouge "killing fields" regime which devastated Cambodia for more than three years from 1975-79, Srey Heng overcame her crippling ...
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Leth Oun is one of the millions of Cambodians forever scarred by the traumas of The Killing Fields. For three years and eight months, he was enslaved, starved and tortured by ...
When Pol Pot sat down in 1978 for his first-ever interview, the Yugoslav journalists conducting it asked him a simple question: "Comrade Pol Pot, who are you?" The man behind Cambodia's killing fields ...
PHNOM PENH, Jan 19 (Reuters) - A U.N.-backed court in Cambodia will start its first trial next month of a former interrogator of the Khmer Rouge regime, blamed for the deaths of 1.7 million people in ...
Bloodstains on the ground still mark the spots where prisoners were slain. Bullet holes riddle the walls, and mounds of tangled barbed wire section off the various areas of the complex. On the ground ...
The genocide Pol Pot oversaw between 1975 and 1979 (killing about 2 million Cambodians) inevitably recalls Hitler’s, but these wounds are still raw. (Pol Pot seized Cambodia days after Bill Gates and ...
Forty-five years ago last Sunday, Vietnamese troops seized Phnom Penh and ended Cambodia's 45-month reign of terror known as the "killing fields." Under the ...
Ghost Mountain is the story of Bunseng Taing, a Cambodian refugee who made his way to Connecticut in 1980 after surviving both the Killing Fields and a second horror never before documented. He was ...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Dith Pran, the Cambodian-born journalist whose harrowing tale of enslavement and eventual escape from that country's murderous Khmer Rouge revolutionaries in 1979 became the subject ...
October 2004 — Fenway Park. How sweet October smelled, with the wafts of Fenway Franks and spilled beer drifting through the bleachers. Red Sox-Yankees, ALCS … what more could you ask for? I was there ...
The gravitas of Sydney H. Schanberg comes through in his stories for The Times’s house organ. So does a wicked sense of humor. By David W. Dunlap Mr. Schanberg won a Pulitzer Prize for covering the ...
In one of the most compelling films to hold its world premiere at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, archive footage shows an apparently amiable man dressed in black sitting for an ...