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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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Escape from Songkran

April 13, 2023 – 6:22 am

In 2007 Songkran started early, despite the cool rainy weather. Drunken bar girls and their patrons jump-started the water festival two days before the official opening date, April 13. My wife and daughter deserted Pattaya for their family celebration of the Thai New Year. I had no intentions of enduring the expected aquatic mayhem, but […]

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Sophie’s Bar Phnom Penh – a touch of darkness

August 1, 2022 – 9:37 am

Entry by Ty Spaulding This Phnom Penh landmark is located on an unlit side street. It is not easy to find. The taxi motorcyclists on the sidewalk eye your entrance as you’ve had your ticket stamped by the devil. You climb up a decrepit set of stairs, which look like the Khmer Rouge might have […]

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Miss Khmer Rouge

October 11, 2018 – 8:56 am

The Khmer Rouge sought to reincarnate the pureness of Cambodian society by wiping the slate clean in Year Zero and after the Fall of Phnom Phem the new regime exiled the country’s urban population to rural re-education camps in the rice fields and jungles. The cadre shut schools, hospitals and factories throughout Kampuchea. Buddhas were […]

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Par 4 at the Killing Fields Country Club

February 20, 2018 – 2:04 am

Eleven years ago in a move destined to have the late Cambodian despot Pol Pot spinning in his grave _ if he had one _ the former Khmer Rouge cadres in their stronghold of Pailin embraced a plan to cash in on the country’s tourism boom and build a golf course. Not that they know […]

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