July 27, 2010 The New York Times Editorial It is disturbing that the Cambodian prime minister, Hun Sen, has said the court will not prosecute more suspects than the ones in custody. One has to ask, whom is he trying to protect? Thirty years later, Cambodia’s “killing fields” are still haunting. A Buddhist memorial displays
By SOPHAL EAR While my mother, four siblings and I escaped Pol Pot’s Cambodia in 1976, my father died of dysentery and malnutrition after a brief stay at a mite-infested Khmer Rouge “hospital.” Although I have harbored grave doubts about the ability of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal underway in Phnom Penh to punish the guilty,
Independence Monument; Vann Molyvann, architect (All photos: Luke Duggleby for The Wall Street Journal) A lone figure walks the stands of Vann Molyvann’s Olympic Stadium. The Chaktomuk Conference Hall, one of Mr. Molyvann’s earliest designs, was built in 1961. The library at the Institute for Foreign Languages, now part of the Royal University of Phnom
Monk, Hoeurn Somnieng receives a degree in business management from St. Ambrose University in Iowa, USA. (Photo: Courtesy of Life and Hope Association) Nuch Sarita, VOA Khmer Washington, D.C Tuesday, 18 May 2010 “It was a very profound experience for me. In a period of great suffering, I was kind of not knowing what to
