"Year Zero" Late-comers

1: Radio Free Asia in "Scholar Describes Fall of Phnom Penh, 30 Years Later" interviews Philip Short, whose book "Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare" was published in February.

2: SanDiego Union-Tribune report "Cambodia becoming increasingly autocratic-U.S. envoy" adds further background to help fit Peter Leuprecht's ealier mentioned report into a political timeframe.

Cambodia was facing two inter-related problems – corruption and impunity – but the government was being 'ostrich-like' in denying their existence, he added.

The international community has been pouring money into Cambodia since the early 1990s to help rehabilitate a nation devastated by three decades of civil war and the genocidal rule of the Khmer Rouge, but over a third of the 13 million population still lives on less than $1 a day.

3: And one that is fast becoming my newspaper of choice, the International Herald Tribune prints "Cambodia's darkest day", by Sichan Siv (who is now a U.S. ambassador to the United Nations). It give an firsthand account of fleeing Phnom Penh.

I came to learn that my mother, along with my older sister, brother and their families, had been clubbed to death by the Khmer Rouge. Of the 16 of us who left Phnom Penh together on April 17, 1975, I am the only survivor.

4: Daily News offers "I was spared to tell my story", by Joe Milicia. Largely a reprint of the interview with Loung Ung previously seen at the links here.