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Saturday, November 21, 2009 1:52 PM

Khmer Rouge

Type: Organization
Name: Khmer Rouge
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents
Nazi defence provides model for Khmer Rouge cadre
Hitler's chief architect Albert Speer is set to play a posthumous role this week when the trial of the main jailer for Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime hears final arguments from lawyers.Speer escaped death at the Nuremberg trials after World War II by admitting ... [InSing.com - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents
What unusual delicacy can be found in Cambodia?
Deep fried tarantula, anyone? It has eight legs, a whole heap of eyes and it has been a constant source of torment for arachnophobia suffers worldwide. You guessed right… It's spiders.I'm not talking about innocuous daddy-long legs, these spiders are ... [e-Travel Blackboard - 11/20/2009]
First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents
Duch: Symbol of Khmer Rouge horror
In early 1999, in a village in northwest Cambodia, an elderly man introduced himself to a journalist.He was Hong Pen, he said, a former teacher from the capital, Phnom Penh. He spoke good English and was wearing the T-shirt of an American aid organis ... [BBC - 11/20/2009]
First Reported 21 hours ago - Updated 21 hours ago - 1 Documents
Khmer Rouge Trial: Television Helps Spread Word To Nation
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- When the former Khmer Rouge prison chief, Kaing Ghek Eav, first took the stand eight months ago, most Cambodians had scarce knowledge of the tribunal that was trying him. More on Cambodia ... [The Huffington Post | Full News Feed - 21 hours ago]
First Reported 9 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 1 Documents
Missionary to speak on Khmer Rouge experiences
Dareth Ly spent his childhood in Cambodia under the deadly 1975-1979 rule of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.His father was among the 1.5 to 2.5 million people who died directly on the Killings Fields or from starvation and disease.His mother survived, but ... [Individual.com - 9 hours ago]
First Reported 11/18/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 2 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
For victims, lengthy Khmer Rouge trial painful (Reuters)
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - After six months of testimony in the first U.N.-backed trial of a high-ranking member of the former Khmer Rouge, many Cambodians who suffered from the tyrannical regime have one question: Why is it taking so long?Closing arguments ... [West Australian - 11/18/2009]
First Reported 11/18/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 1 Documents
Why Israelis are incorrigible travellers
A couple of months ago a friend, another ex-Torontonian, suggested we take a trip to Laos and Cambodia, corners of the world neither of us had visited. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime experience, reminiscent of a teenage summer vacation we spent together ... [Canadian Jewish News - 11/18/2009]
Entities: Cambodia, Israel, Laos, Bangkok
First Reported 11/14/2009 - Updated 11/14/2009 - 1 Documents
Christina Patterson: Didn't we have a lovely time the day we went to Basra
We can visit foreign countries - and discover that who we elect really mattersCloseWhat do you do when you've bombed the living daylights out of a country? Well, you go on holiday there, of course! If an awful lot of people have died there as a result ... [The Independent - 11/14/2009]
First Reported 11/15/2009 - Updated 11/15/2009 - 1 Documents
Long Beach's Cambodians Still Haunted by Killing Fields
Thirty years after the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia, during which 1.7 million Cambodians were killed, the first trials of Khmer Rouge officials for their part in the mass murders began last spring. While the trials have captured western attention, in Long ... [New America Media - 11/15/2009]
First Reported 11/15/2009 - Updated 11/15/2009 - 1 Documents
Somaly Lun on fleeing Cambodia and the horror of Year Zero
We'd walk to the fields to work and see the bodies. They left them there to scare us She was only 15 when the Khmer Rouge seized control of Cambodia. Now, 30 years after she fled, Somaly Lun recalls the horror of Pol Pot's regime, and how she found a ... [Guardian.co.uk - 11/15/2009]
First Reported 11/15/2009 - Updated 11/15/2009 - 1 Documents
REHMAN RASHID: We've grown accustomed to these wars
THERE'S a haunting, if apocryphal, story of how infants born in war zones have difficulty sleeping without the sound of distant gunfire, and are soothed by recordings of such sounds as if by lullabies or the sibilance of gentle rain.There is another, ... [New Straits Times - 11/15/2009]
First Reported 10/30/2009 - Updated 10/30/2009 - 2 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
Khmer Rouge trial judges accused of bias
The beleaguered Khmer Rouge trials in Cambodia have hit another obstacle.Two pre-trial judges, including Australian Rowan Downing QC, have been accused of taking instruction from their respective governments in a motion filed last week.The Extraordinary ... [ABC Online - 10/30/2009]

Quotes

"I have too many brothers or sisters gone missing during the Khmer Rouge time," she said. "I don't know much about the trial. I'd like to see justice for my relatives who were killed, but when I see Duch on TV it brings back a flood of bad memories."
For victims, lengthy Khmer Rouge trial painful (Reuters) [West Australian - 11/18/2009]
...when the shelling finally ended that crowds came out to greet the victorious communist troops when they entered Phnom Penh, on 17 April 1975. "We were thinking it was going to be really peaceful" recalls Somaly. The Khmer Rouge had other ideas. They responded to the welcome by announcing that everyone had to leave the city immediately...
Somaly Lun on fleeing Cambodia and the horror of Year Zero [Guardian.co.uk - 11/15/2009]

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Missionary to speak on Khmer Rouge experiences [Individual.com - 9 hours ago]
Khmer Rouge Trial: Television Helps Spread Word... [The Huffington Post | Full News Feed - 21 hours ago]
Blog Post: Thirty years ago today... [Mercy Corps - 23 hours ago]
Duch: Symbol of Khmer Rouge horror [BBC - 11/20/2009]
What unusual delicacy can be found in Cambodia? [e-Travel Blackboard - 11/20/2009]
Sam Rainsy condemns Hun Sen's dangerous game wi... [The Nation - Thailand - 11/19/2009]
Nazi defence provides model for Khmer Rouge cadre [InSing.com - 11/19/2009]
Why Israelis are incorrigible travellers [Canadian Jewish News - 11/18/2009]
For victims, lengthy Khmer Rouge trial painful ... [West Australian - 11/18/2009]
For victims, lengthy Khmer Rouge trial painful [InSing.com - 11/18/2009]
Hun Sen has backing of youth in diplomatic row [The Nation - Thailand - 11/16/2009]
ASIA: IRIN-ASIA Weekly Round-up 254 for 8 - 14 ... [IRIN - 11/15/2009]
MIDDLE EAST: IRIN-ASIA Weekly Round-up 254 for ... [IRIN - 11/15/2009]
REHMAN RASHID: We've grown accustomed to these ... [New Straits Times - 11/15/2009]
Somaly Lun on fleeing Cambodia and the horror o... [Guardian.co.uk - 11/15/2009]
Long Beach's Cambodians Still Haunted by Killin... [New America Media - 11/15/2009]
Cambodia Struggles To Save Mothers, Even As It ... [Turkish Weekly - 11/14/2009]
Editorial: Thaksin's gambling [Jakarta Post - 11/14/2009]
Christina Patterson: Didn't we have a lovely ti... [The Independent - 11/14/2009]
Compulsion for Cambodia reward [InMyCommunity - 11/13/2009]
Cambodias Embrace of Ex-Thai Leader Stirs Tensions [New York Times - 11/12/2009]
CAMBODIA: Coming to terms with a violent past [IRIN - 11/12/2009]
Hun Sen blames Thailand (and Abhisit) all the way [Bangkok Post - 11/11/2009]
Cambodian temple jigsaw puzzle nearly complete [Manila Times - 11/11/2009]
Films tackle sorrow and the City [Guardian.co.uk - 11/11/2009]
'Urgent' plea for hospital woman [BBC - 11/10/2009]
New Granta piece on the tribunal [Phnom Penh Post - 11/10/2009]
Losing their voice: the disappearing S’oach [Phnom Penh Post - 11/10/2009]
Textbook sheds light on Khmer Rouge era [BBC - 11/10/2009]
'ASEAN way' just means standing by uselessly [WA Today.com.au - 11/09/2009]
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Afstan: The CF's history... [The Torch - Canada - 11/08/2009]
...is being recorded professionally along with the mission:The log of warSean Maloney has been to Afghanistan eight times, experienced two attacks by improvised ...
Dave Hackel: Huh? [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 11/03/2009]
Everyday the news is filled with statements that just don't make any sense to me. The ideas they espouse are so jarringly disconnected that I just can't ...
Karadzic on trial [Oliver Kamm - 10/28/2009]
 I've written nothing here about the attempts by Radovan Karadzic to impede justice at The Hague, but let me refer you to twoleaders that The Times has published in ...
Two Counts For "Felony Torture" [The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - 10/27/2009]
Here's what two Californians are being charged with:The couple, Daniel Weston and Mary Ann Parmelee, and three other people are accused of luring their two victims ...
John Prendergast: Sudan's State-Sponsored Pyrom... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 10/19/2009]
This op-ed appears today in the Los Angeles Times. The Khmer Rouge's Pol Pot had hundreds of thousands of people dig their own mass graves before ...
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Audio/Video

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Expanding Cambodia's Khmer Rouge tribunal - 02 ... [Al Jazeera - YouTube - 11/02/2009]
Khmer Rouge survivor takes stand [Reuters Video: Top News - 06/29/2009]
Cambodia remembers Pol Pot victims [Reuters Video: Top News - 05/20/2009]
The War on your mind... Wake up something isnt ... [Mefeedia Video Tag : evolution - 04/16/2009]
What's new in The New Yorker, Newsweek, and New... [Slate Magazine - 04/14/2009]
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