Word: cambodians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...terrified, recalling the people, often children and often themselves Khmer Rouge executioners, who were executed here. One large wall is dominated by a map of Cambodia made up entirely of skulls. Outside, in rough letters, the regulations of the place are written out by hand, in English and Cambodian: "While getting lashes and electrification, you must...
...eyes of Pol Pot in one photograph. But this spring the monument to the past came into the news again when the man who had overseen the torture for four years, Kang Khek Ieu, generally known as Duch, was suddenly discovered, by foreign journalists, in a western Cambodian village. He was running a crushed-ice stall in the countryside and had certificates of baptism to prove his status as a born-again Christian. The man who oversaw the execution of at least 16,000 of his countrymen had papers from American churches testifying to his "personal leadership" and "team-building...
...potholes extend psychically too, of course: almost every Cambodian you talk to has huge gaps in his life story, long silences. Since Pol Pot eliminated all those with education or knowledge of the outside world, Phnom Penh became a city of country people, as well as a city of orphans, and you still cannot find doctors or teachers or lawyers of a certain age. No one knows what his neighbors suffered, or how exactly they survived. To survive today, school-age girls still sell themselves for $2 a visit--ignoring what may be the fastest-rising AIDS-infection rate...
...Rouge leader also known as "the Butcher," the last of the rebel commanders still at large since the death of the fugitive Pol Pot in the jungle last year. But diplomats at the feast were less than pleased. Hun Sen said Ta Mok was to be tried in a Cambodian court, not in the international tribunal the U.N. has been planning for months, and he did not talk about arresting other Khmer Rouge leaders. In fact, Hun Sen admitted to TIME that he was "scared" of putting all the aging leaders on trial at this time...
STILL DEAD, THOUGH Pol Pot died of an overdose, not a heart attack as Cambodian officials claimed last April, according to the Far Eastern Economic Review. The late dictator swallowed tranquilizers and antimalarial pills upon discovering that a Khmer Rouge comrade, Ta Mok, planned to turn him over to the U.S. for trial. Ta Mok offered to make Pol Pot available in March, the article by journalist Nate Thayer claimed. But U.S. officials declined, saying they needed more time to prepare to arrest...