Category Archives: cambodia

With My Bare Hands – Anthony Bourdain

December 3, 2023 – 11:13 am

I have always admired Anthony Bourdain, but never more than when he wrote in A Cook’s Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines, “Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. You will never again be able to open a newspaper and read about that […]

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Duch Choi Cha’ kai Anh

December 1, 2023 – 8:29 pm

Written on Jun 11, 2017 In 1975 the Khmer Rouge converted the Tuol Svay Prey High School on the outskirts of Phnom Penh into the murderous Tuol Sleng or S-21 prison. An estimated 17,000 prisoners were subjected to the following code of behavior enforced by Comrade Duch and his killers. 1. You must answer accordingly […]

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Bomb Them To The Stone Age

December 1, 2023 – 2:43 pm

Written Mar 22, 2012 On March 18, 1969 President Richard Nixon ordered American B-52s to bomb Cambodia, thus kicking off a deadly air campaign supposedly directed against North Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge targets. 540,000 tons of high-ordinance bombs resulted in the deaths of anywhere from 150,000 to 500,000 civilians and countless wounded in the agrarian […]

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War Criminal # 1

December 1, 2023 – 1:46 pm

Written Sep 28, 2016 When I first visited Cambodia in 1998, I arrived at Phnom Penh airport on a comfortable Bangkok Air flight from Bangkok. The previous year the Khmer Rouge had ceased their guerilla war against the government forces and the country was deemed safe for tourism. After landing the plane rolled across the […]

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DA CHICKEN FARM IN SIHANOUKVILLE by Peter Nolan Smith

April 14, 2023 – 8:31 am

In 2007 I was losing my mind. The mother of my daughter has deserted me to live in the hicks or ‘Bannok’. I had given up everything to move to Thailand and be a father. Angie’s mom was scared that I was planning to kidnap her. She was stupider than a bucket of mud. I […]

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