Posted in history, khmer rouge, news, photography on Mar 31st, 2008
has filed his last photograph. I was privileged to see him speak once, in the 1980s.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/30/america/Obit-Dith-Pran.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/31/nyregion/31dith.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dith_Pran
It's customary to have a moment of silence, but this outspoken survivor was anything but. His efforts live on at www.dithpran.org.
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Posted in academia, history, khmer rouge, news on Jan 7th, 2008
Welcome to another 'Victory Against the Genocidal Regime' day. (Formerly the 'Day of Hate'.)
January 7 is marked on local calendars as a day of celebration for the liberation of (much) of Cambodia from 'Pol Pot'. I have respect for soldiers of any nationality who lost their lives fighting the ...
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Posted in history, khmer rouge, tribunal on Dec 30th, 2007
An MP3 interview of Khieu Samphan. Producers/marketers unlabeled.
I don't think everyone is interested in the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, or the arcane machinery of it.
But the history and the culpability of the accused definitely seems to be getting some attention.
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Posted in history, in Khmer, theatre on Aug 12th, 2006
Bestial Village
is the name given by Royal Decree to a town where 20-30 outraged people killed an abrasive French tax collector, Resident Bardez. The incident serves to illustrate many aspects of the time of colonial rule. (The show flyers say 'Miserable Village' for some reason.)
Now Amrita Performing Arts has ...
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Posted in cambodia, history, khmer rouge, tourism on Aug 12th, 2005
Imagine if you were, say, French. And all people knew about, wanted to ask about, was the Vichy French period. As if there were no other aspect of culture and history.
Via Beth's Blog, I notice that there's a radio show slated about the very sexy topic of Cambodia blogs. http://www.radioopensource.org/cambodias-nascent-bloggosphere/
We're ...
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