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As vote nears, Cambodia opposition urges sanction threat - Pakistan Daily Times

As vote nears, Cambodia opposition urges sanction threat
Pakistan Daily Times
Hun Sen has warned that Cambodia risks a return to war if the opposition wins due to Rainsy's vow to prosecute members of his government for alleged roles in the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime. The United States has criticized the exclusion of Rainsy ...

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Source: Khmer Rouge Page - Google News | 11 May 2013 | 9:57 pm

Jordanian Soldier Warms Syrian Refugee Baby's Hands (PHOTO) - Huffington Post

Jordanian Soldier Warms Syrian Refugee Baby's Hands (PHOTO)
Huffington Post
We tried to track down the origins of the sweet photo and found it on Arabic news organization Ammon News' Facebook page. It was posted there on Sunday with an Arabic caption that reads in English: Jordanian soldier from ... A soldier before the Khmer ...

Source: Khmer Rouge Page - Google News | 9 May 2013 | 5:03 am

Author Says Starving the People Was Not Khmer Rouge Policy - The Cambodia Daily (subscription)

Author Says Starving the People Was Not Khmer Rouge Policy
The Cambodia Daily (subscription)
While the end result of the Khmer Rouge regime's ultra-Marxist ideology was the death of an estimated 1.7 million people, its leaders did not set out to exterminate their own countrymen, expert witness and author Philip Short testified at the Khmer ...

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Source: Khmer Rouge Page - Google News | 9 May 2013 | 2:41 am

Intrigue and Mystery in Angkor - The Cambodia Daily (subscription)

The Cambodia Daily (subscription)

Intrigue and Mystery in Angkor
The Cambodia Daily (subscription)
Beautifully written by Mr. Burgess, a former Washington Post correspondent in Southeast Asia, the 500-page work is an enthralling novel filled with court intrigues and human dramas against a backdrop of actual historical events. Published this year by ...

Source: Khmer Rouge Page - Google News | 8 May 2013 | 7:23 am

Cambodia's Cultural Crown Jewel - ウォール・ストリート・ジャーナル日本版

ウォール・ストリート・ジャーナル日本版

Cambodia's Cultural Crown Jewel
ウォール・ストリート・ジャーナル日本版
After the fall of the Khmer Rouge, the Royal Ballet was gradually restored and has worked under royal patronage to reshape itself without losing its connection to its historic ways of dancing and music making. The current troupe toured with 21 female ...

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Source: Khmer Rouge Page - Google News | 7 May 2013 | 10:03 pm

When Museums Decide to Return Looted Art - New York Times

When Museums Decide to Return Looted Art
New York Times
“The Met Plans to Return Art to Cambodia” (front page, May 4) illustrates how far American museums have come from the days of litigation over cultural artifacts, such as that involving the Lydian Hoard looted from Turkey in the 1960s and returned by ...

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Source: Khmer Rouge Page - Google News | 7 May 2013 | 1:27 am

Thatcher may be gone, but remember – her cruel influence lives on in the ... - New Statesman

Thatcher may be gone, but remember – her cruel influence lives on in the ...
New Statesman
To conceal this outrage, the US, Britain and China, Pol Pot's main backer, invented a “resistance coalition”, dominated by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge forces and supplied by the CIA at bases along the Thai border. There was a hitch. Following the Irangate ...

Source: Khmer Rouge Page - Google News | 2 May 2013 | 6:29 am

Khmer Rouge cadres have little appetite for landmark trial - Pakistan Daily Times

Khmer Rouge cadres have little appetite for landmark trial
Pakistan Daily Times
Khmer Rouge cadres have little appetite for landmark trial. MALAI: It has been hailed as a chance to heal a traumatised nation, but former foot soldiers of the brutal Khmer Rouge say Cambodia's genocide trial is a waste of money that will only re-open ...

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Source: Khmer Rouge Page - Google News | 1 May 2013 | 9:22 pm

John Pilger: Blair was Thatcher's key legacy - Green Left Weekly

Green Left Weekly

John Pilger: Blair was Thatcher's key legacy
Green Left Weekly
To conceal this outrage, the US, Britain and China, Pol Pot's main backer, invented a “resistance coalition” dominated by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge forces and supplied by the CIA at bases along the Thai border. There was a hitch. In the wake of the Iran ...

Source: Khmer Rouge Page - Google News | 30 Apr 2013 | 12:35 am

Change in a wounded place - Trinidad Guardian

Trinidad Guardian

Change in a wounded place
Trinidad Guardian
On April 2, news that lawyers for former Khmer Rouge senior official, Khieu Sampan, are requesting his release from detention pending a trial, appears on page two of the “Post”. Page one is devoted to a story about the impacts of climate change and an ...

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Source: Khmer Rouge Page - Google News | 15 Apr 2013 | 3:41 am

On vacation in a season of contrasts - Concord Monitor

Then there was the front-page story in the Monitor about the alleged "serial ... It explained that the train was headed through a part of Cambodia controlled by the Khmer Rouge, who were known to mine the tracks. The flat bed car was there to detonate ...

Source: Khmer Rouge Page - Bing News | 28 Jul 2012 | 11:30 pm

Khmer Rouge chief jailer gets life for 'shocking' crimes - Worldnews.com

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Source: Khmer Rouge Page - Bing News | 28 Jul 2012 | 10:51 am

Guest Post: Indirect Intervention—Why and When - Council on Foreign Relations

Then U.S. secretary of state James Baker reportedly said that Central America after the Cold War should return to the back pages of the newspaper ... States backing elements of the genocidal Khmer Rouge in a coalition of insurgents against ...

Source: Khmer Rouge Page - Bing News | 26 Jul 2012 | 4:23 pm

Prosecutor: Knoxville couple faked military service, disabilities to defraud government - Knoxville News Sentinel

With a decorated war hero regaling them with tales from the pages of military history — the Vietnam ... the rescue of U.S. merchant cargo ship by the Cambodian Khmer Rouge days later and the 1980 Iran hostage crisis. As part of the scheme ...

Source: Khmer Rouge Page - Bing News | 25 Jul 2012 | 6:37 am

Book review: Obama book short on facts - Charleston Gazette

The "Times" magazine won a Pulitzer Prize under Klein's leadership. But it also "suffered other high-profile missteps" that included "publication of a fabricated tale about Khmer Rouge guerillas in Cambodia," Levingston writes. Max Frankel, executive ...

Source: Khmer Rouge Page - Bing News | 19 Jul 2012 | 11:55 pm

Mao: The Curse of the Mummy by Rene Vienet - Infoshop News

This opinion can figure in the salmon-colored pages of Le Figaro Economie as an introduction ... wanting to dissipate the costly Khmer-Rouge and philo-Maoist images distributed by Patrice de Bouc and Alain de Beer, recruited the first French journalist ...

Source: Khmer Rouge Page - Bing News | 14 Jul 2012 | 9:38 pm

The Violent Visions of Slavoj Žižek - nybooks.com

While he rejects Marx’s conception of communism, Žižek devotes none of the over one thousand pages of Less Than Nothing to specifying ... Again, Žižek praises the Khmer Rouge for attempting a total break with the past.

Source: Khmer Rouge Page - Bing News | 10 Jul 2012 | 2:02 am

Goodbye possums! - ABC Online

page three, it is all there is. So philistinism - p h i l i s t i n i s m - is still alive and well in our big brown country. Paul Lockyer was one of the first journalists to report on the full extent of the Khmer Rouge atrocities in Cambodia. This report ...

Source: Khmer Rouge Page - Bing News | 5 Jul 2012 | 3:33 am