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The fall guy has fallen
Some belated justice for Cambodia. Then there's this testimony from a survivor of Tuol Sleng. After reading that, I really don't know what else to say. -
Six Billion Worlds
- People-trafficking Afghan children to the Aegean islands.
- The Khmer riche: making a killing in Cambodia.
- The failed immigrants held in UK detention centres for years.
- Rare photos of Bhutan go on display in Delhi.
- Audio slideshow: Life in Haiti's camps.
- Odd Box: The man with 100+ vacuum cleaners, matchmaking supermarkets in China and ( Read more... )
- People-trafficking Afghan children to the Aegean islands.
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Marking the day that Khmer Rouge trials are finally under way. Comrade Duch will possibly end up as fall guy for the entire regime if his elderly superiors successfully take the Pinochet/Milosevic option, something everyone expects they will at least try for. -
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Today marks 30 years since the fall of the Khmer Rouge, and no one has yet faced justice. -
Rwanda and Cambodia updates
Rwanda: from this to this in fourteen years.
There are a few books I still wish to read about the Rwandan genocide, including Philip Gourevitch's We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families, plus several films I have yet to see including Hotel Rwanda, Shake Hands with the Devil and Shooting Dogs. I do however recommend ( Read more... ) -
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Dith Pran, the Cambodian photojournalist whose life was turned into The Killing Fields, has died aged 65, from pancreatic cancer. Too early. -
Cambodia update
The trials of Cambodia's mass murderers begins in July 2008. One of them, Duch (now a born-again Christian) is beginning to publicly reconcile his past. I fully expect the rest will be far more evasive and still in denial.
