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February 11, 2021
in History

A Mirage on the Mekong

February 11, 2021
in History

Sebastian Strangio— In the West, Cambodia is nearly synonymous with the terror and mass murder that engulfed the country in the mid-1970s, when the Khmer Rouge seized power and embarked on a radical experiment in communism. Led by “Brother Number One” Pol Pot, who dreamt of recreating the glories of

March 31, 2008
in Current Affairs, History, Military History, Social Science

Remembering Dith Pran

March 31, 2008
in Current Affairs, History, Military History, Social Science

Dith Pran, author of Children of Cambodia’s Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors, passed away on Sunday in New Brunswick, N.J, as reported in the New York Times. He was a photojournalist for the New York Times and founder of the Dith Pran Holocaust Awareness Project. This extraordinary book contains eyewitness