After 35 years, the first Khmer Rouge mass murderer has been convicted in Cambodia. We’ve all heard of the killing fields of Cambodia, when the Khmer Rouge murdered between one and two million other Cambodians. It was one of the worst periods of mass murder in history. It was the Chinese Cultural Revolution gone crazy. The Khmer Rouge, in attempting to bring about an agrarian utopian society, sought out and murdered anyone with an education, and anyone associated with them.
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ruins near Angkor Wat and Buddhist Monk, photo by Bob Rogers, bob rogers and claire rogers the new bohemians, newbohemians Bob and Claire Rogers have moved their Shangri-la, 2009 Asian Adventure blogs to a First to Last blog format. Relive their adventures from Tibetan China through Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. Before we began our Asian tandem bicycle adventure, I read Confucian quotes and often couldn’t relate. This I chalked up to lack of depth on my part, and perhaps the enigmatic nature of Eastern thought. After encountering many times the simplicity, and discomfort, he describes, I now understand. |
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