Sunday, April 17

"Year Zero" plus 30

I'll be hunting through various world resources over the next few days to find what level of coverage was given to the 30th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge march into Phnom Penh.

As usual, the International Herald Tribune has an outstanding piece that neatly ties current events with a first-hand account from the scenes of yesteryear.

James Pringle writes:
I was in the first small party of Western journalists to visit Toul Sleng in April 1979, soon after Phnom Penh's liberation by the Vietnamese Army. There was still blood on cell floors, and starving Cambodians picked up individual grains of rice from the ground outside. Deuch, now in custody, was discovered in 1999 working in a refugee camp, proclaiming himself a born-again Christian.
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