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Cambodia’s Genocide
PHNOM PENH — Nuon Chea, a Cambodian politician and a chief ideologue as part of the notorious Khmer Rouge, dies Sunday at age 93 after a brief stay in a Phnom Penh hotel for what was […]
Khmer Rouge
Foreign Correspondence
Podcast: John McBeth
Veteran New Zealand journalist John McBeth has covered Southeast Asia for half a century – that included coups, a genocide and the downfall of dictators – for publications like the once revered and feared Far […]
Foreign Correspondence
Podcast: Peter Starr
Heng Samrin played an outsized and often overlooked role in Cambodia’s history and politics. Arguably one of the twentieth century’s greatest guerrilla commanders, he defected from the Khmer Rouge and fled to Vietnam, where he […]
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The Latest
Stories and Podcasts from Bomborra. PODCAST: Remembering Heng Samrin and Cambodia’s Rebirth. Luke Hunt speaks with veteran journalist Peter Starr about the career of one of the twentieth century’s greatest guerrilla commanders. In another leap backwards, […]
Foreign Correspondence
Khmer Rouge survivor Films return to camp of his childhood
FAR EAST CORRESPONDENT — Bunhom Chhorn saw the black-uniformed killers in his nightmares as he was growing up in Melbourne. “They appeared stark and terrifyingly real, always trying to catch me or do me harm,” […]