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Pol Pot

Type: Person

Name: Pol Pot

First Reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 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 - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot, Cambodia

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]

Entities: Khmer Rouge, Cambodia, Pol Pot, Phnum Penh

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 11/15/2009 - 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]

Entities: Killing Fields, Long Beach (California, United States), Pol Pot, Khmer Rouge

First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 1 Documents

Inside the psychology of an analyst

LONDON - Recently an ex-colleague of mine told me of an experience that went some way to answering one of the perennial questions that has been posed at dinner parties across London for decades: does the City attract arrogant tossers or do they become ... [Moneyweb - 11/17/2009]

Entities: Buy-Side Analyst, Arrogance, Geraint Anderson

First Reported 10/22/2009 - Updated 10/22/2009 - 1 Documents

Dangerous Zanies

WASHINGTON -- We are at that delicious moment in a modern Democratic presidential administration when the bizarre fantasticos who decorate each chaotic regime make their painful appearance -- though this administration is bringing a whiff of the ominous. ... [American Spectator - 10/22/2009]

Entities: Peter Bourne, Yosi Sergant, Cocaine

First Reported 10/23/2009 - Updated 10/23/2009 - 1 Documents

Khmer Rouge victim from San Jose was saved by her children

Bay is a refugee of the Khmer Rouge killing fields so long ago in Cambodia. After losing almost her entire family, she's rebuilt her life in San Jose, but the recovery wasn't easy and she's still tormented by occasional nightmares. Dozens of local survivors ... [SiliconValley.com - 10/23/2009]

Entities: Khmer Rouge, San Jose (San Jose, Costa Rica), Cambodia, Pol Pot

First Reported 10/25/2009 - Updated 10/25/2009 - 1 Documents

In 30 years, Cambodian immigrants have redefined city's mosaic

Oct. 25--Socheath Uch remembers a frigid welcome to his new country.'Cold!' says Uch, 67, smiling. 'So cold. Snow everywhere. But they gave us jackets.'On Jan. 16, 1981, Uch and his wife, Lily, now 59, landed at Boston's Logan Airport, headed for a new ... [Poten & Partners - 10/25/2009]

Entities: Pol Pot, Cambodia, Refugees, Census

First Reported 10/30/2009 - Updated 10/30/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Bourdain likens Alice Waters to Cambodian dictator

Bay Area be proud! We're the whipping boys of New York City chefs!First up, Alice Waters. After saying the Chez Panisse founder " annoys the living s*** out of me ," the Travel Channel's Anthony Bourdain bashed her again. " She's Pol Pot in a muumuu ," ... [San Francisco Chronicle - 10/30/2009]

Entities: Alice Waters, Anthony Bourdain, Dictator

First Reported 10/31/2009 - Updated 10/31/2009 - 1 Documents

Remembering the Cambodian Communist Massacres

The aircraft flew low, following the Mekong River west from Vietnam. Once over Cambodia, what we saw silenced all of us on board. There appeared to be nobody, no movement, not even an animal, as if the great population of Asia had stopped at the border. ... [LewRockwell.com - 10/31/2009]

Entities: Cambodia, Pol Pot, Massacre

First Reported 11/03/2009 - Updated 11/03/2009 - 1 Documents

Hun Sen praises Japan's role in Cambodia ahead of regional summit

PHNOM PENH Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday praised Japans contributions to peace in Cambodia over the years and said Tokyo is playing a key role as a development partner in the Mekong River region. In a written interview with a group of senior ... [Japan Today - 11/03/2009]

Entities: Hun Sen, Cambodia, Japan

First Reported 11/04/2009 - Updated 11/04/2009 - 1 Documents

Sick of being a four-wheeled cash cow? It was ever thus

EMISSIONS : The past offers little comfort in the search for parking solutionsTHE TALE of territoriality I recounted here last week has left me pondering deeply on life and the pernicious influence of the car. I suspect that, rather than bringing us together, ... [Irish Times - 11/04/2009]

Entities: Dublin, Pol Pot, Extortion

More Content

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Missionary to speak on Khmer Rouge experiences [Individual.com - 10 hours ago]
Duch: Symbol of Khmer Rouge horror [BBC - 11/20/2009]
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]
TFAHs Richard Hamburg Moves Up to Deputy Direct... [Trust for America's Health - 11/17/2009]
Thai-Cambodian tensions escalate over Thaksin a... [World Socialist Web Site - 11/17/2009]
Inside the psychology of an analyst [Moneyweb - 11/17/2009]
Column: Don’t blame God for terrorism [USA Today - 11/16/2009]
NASA discovers water on the moon — or did it? [The Nation - 11/16/2009]
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]
The Scourge of Fundamentalism [Global Politician - 11/14/2009]
Compulsion for Cambodia reward [InMyCommunity - 11/13/2009]
'Thaksin can help Cambodia' [BBC - 11/12/2009]
Linden MacIntyre wins the Scotiabank Giller Pri... [National Post - 11/11/2009]
'Urgent' plea for hospital woman [BBC - 11/10/2009]
How many people has Margret Thatcher killed? [Politics.ie - 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]
The baby thrown out with communism's bathwater [Globe and Mail - 11/09/2009]
Despite brief MDC success, Zimbabwe will keep l... [Business Day - 11/09/2009]
Were still waiting for progress without tyranny [Abu Dhabi National - 11/08/2009]
Comment on Twenty Years After The Fall by Leland [Transterrestrial Musings - 11/08/2009]
Veteran Vietnamese volunteers meet Cambodian of... [NhanDan Online - 11/08/2009]
Playing With Super Powers [THE IRRAWADDY - 11/05/2009]
Authoritarian Eritrea President overseeing a ca... [American Chronicle - 11/05/2009]
Hillary Clinton & 'The American Way' Of Aba... [Post Chronicle - 11/05/2009]
Government asylum-seeker policy illegal and imm... [National Indigenous Times - 11/05/2009]
Pilger awarded Sydney Peace Prize [ABC Online - 11/04/2009]

Blogs

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Give Reporters the Most Luxurious Airline Seats... [Gawker - 11/09/2009] In your meritocratic Monday media column: Reporters suffer injustices unseen since Pol Pot's darkest days, The Week guarantees goodness, Esquire has a gizmo thingamajig ...
Fort Hood: Political Correctness as Murder Weapon [Pajamas Media - 11/08/2009] The immediate reaction of the mainstream media on learning of the activities of Nidal Malik Hasan was to say that he was crazy. And no doubt that was true. Anyone ...
Paul Hollander on the Fall of Communism [The Volokh Conspiracy - 11/06/2009] This fall is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and other events associated with the collapse of communism. Paul Hollander, a sociologist who has ...
How to make something a pressing issue [Harry's Place - 11/04/2009] Over at Socialist Unity, Andy Newman notes: The draconian anti-gay laws being introduced in Uganda seem to have received very little attention in the Western press. ...
David Bromwich: War Fever at the Times: A Five-... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 10/20/2009] These things occur by stealth, but not by chance. Plenty of reports of the Afghanistan war, the jihadists in Pakistan, U.S. bombing and efforts at rebuilding ...

Audio/Video

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China's Mao: The Butcher of Beijing!! [Mefeedia Video Tag : evoluti - 11/04/2009]
China's Mao: The Butcher of Beijing!! [Mefeedia Video Tag : evoluti - 11/03/2009]
Khmer Rouge survivor takes stand [Reuters Video: Top News - 06/29/2009]
Cambodia remembers Pol Pot victims [Reuters Video: Top News - 05/20/2009]
1-3 The Most Evil Men In History - Vlad The Imp... [Mefeedia Video Tag : physi - 05/10/2009]

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