Dith Pran dies at 65
2008-04-04
Dith Pran, the hero of "The Killing Fields," was an interpreter and “fixer” in 1970. It was the first year of the war in Cambodia, a time when many Cambodians truly believed that they could defeat the Vietnamese Communists. At that time, the Khmer Rouge were just emerging as a military force that would ultimately conquer the country and send Dith Pran to a labor camp.
The Making of a Mass Murderer
2007-11-19
Duch, now 66 years old, seems the right choice to go to trial first, though he’s not the highest-ranking of the four Khmer Rouge officials so far to be charged and detained. Duch was the chief of the notorious torture center known as S-21. But it’s not easy to understand how he transformed himself from kindly teacher to chief executioner.
Child Soldiers — Driven by Fear and Hate
2006-07-20
On April 17, 1975, the Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh, starting a four-year reign of terror in Cambodia. RFA’s chief editor Dan Southerland visits battlefields he covered as a war correspondent from 1970-75. In these blogs, Southerland reports how many older Cambodians are trying to forget the Khmer Rouge trauma, while younger Cambodians know little of their own history.
The Killing Machine
2006-06-20
Interviewing refugees can be tricky business. They sometimes tell you what they think you want to hear. Some exaggerate in order to gain sympathy.
"We Just Tried to Survive"
2006-05-19
The brother of one of the world’s most notorious mass murderers is sleeping peacefully in his hammock.
Why Did They Kill So Many?
2006-05-04
In the later stages of the war in Cambodia, refugees began to describe the widespread killing of civilians in areas under Khmer Rouge control.
War "From the Other Side"
2006-04-21
Nothing looks familiar to me except the empty highway stretching straight ahead toward Vietnam. But I can still make out the place where my two colleagues disappeared, never to be seen again
Return to Saang
2006-04-14
"I find few scars of war and conflict here that might remind them of what happened when the Khmer Rouge took over the country and killed more than 1 million—some say as many as 2 million—of Cambodia’s people."
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