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Think Again: Lessons From Cambodia's Rebirth Through the Arts

Cynthia P. Schneider | Posted 05.14.2013 | Arts
Read More: Killing Fields, Vietnam War, Cambodian Living Arts, Genocide, Cambodia, Arts, Dance, Film, Culture, Arts News
Cynthia P. Schneider

The revival of Cambodia's rich and unique cultural heritage has fueled the country's impressive recovery from the Khmer Rouge's genocide of 1975-79. This message rang unmistakably true as the Season of Cambodia has dazzled New York audiences.

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Unsolved (And Disturbing) Missing Persons Cases

TruTV.com | Posted 03.04.2013 | Crime
Read More: Robyn Gardner, Henry Holt, Video, Killing Fields, Megumi Yokota, Etan Patz, Springfield 3, Holly Bobo, Missing Persons, Baby Lisa, Missing Children, Jim Thompson, Crime News

It's a tragic when a person, adult or child, suddenly disappears. Often, the case gets immediate attention from the public. But as investigations l...

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Hope From The Killing Fields

Jack Levison | Posted 12.10.2012 | Religion
Read More: Poverty, Vietnam, Cambodia, Killing Fields, Phnom Penh, Christianity, Christian Social Justice, Angkor Wat, Religion News
Jack Levison

At a time of global crisis, when so many children are poor, so many parents hopeless, so many nations teetering on the brink of genocide, perhaps these reflections about my visit to Cambodia will bring a glimmer of hope from the Killing Fields.

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Mass Grave Discovery Raises Ghosts From The Past

AP | DENIS D. GRAY | Posted 08.25.2012 | World
Read More: Video, Killing Fields, Khmer Rouge, Cambodia, Cambodia Mass Graves, Cambodia Khmer Rouge, Cambodia Killing Fields, World News

DO DONTREI, Cambodia -- It was four gray skulls resting on a bed of jumbled bones that again triggered Chea Nouen's memories: breast-feeding her baby ...

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Whimsical Cupcakes That Feed The Soul In Cambodia

Dr. Caroline Cicero | Posted 06.25.2012 | Travel
Read More: Empowering Women, Cake Decorating, Killing Fields, Cupcakes, Angkor Wat, Khmer Rouge, Economic Development, Cambodia, Tarantula, Tuol Sleng, Phnom Penh, Vocational Training, Slidepollajax, Travel Blogs, Travel News
Dr. Caroline Cicero

Opened in 2010, Bloom Training Centre and Café is the brain-child of Ruth Larwill, a mother of two from Brisbane, Australia, who found she could use her passion for cake decorating to provide economic opportunity for vulnerable women in Cambodia.

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Top Khmer Rouge Leaders On Trial

AP | SOPHENG CHEANG | Posted 01.21.2012 | World
Read More: Video, Killing Fields, Khmer Rouge Trial, Khmer Rouge Leaders on Trial, Khmer Rouge, Cambodia, Cambodia Khmer Rouge, Cambodia Killing Fields, Cambodia Trial, World News

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Pol Pot's close confederates cannot solely blame their late leader for the atrocities that took place under Cambodia's Kh...

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Khmer Rouge 'Killing Fields' Commanders Go On Trial

Posted 08.27.2011 | World
Read More: Killing Fields, Pol Pot, Khieu Samphan, Khmer Rouge Trial, Khmer Rouge, Ieng Thirith, Cambodia, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, World News

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – The four most senior surviving members of Cambodia's murderous Khmer Rouge regime went on trial for war crimes on Monday,...

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The Killing Fields and Indonesia's Relations with Cambodia Revisited

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Yasushi Akashi, Siemreap, Thailand, Jakarta, Ethiopia, United Nations, University of Texas, Suharto, Chinese, Norodom Sihanouk, Cold War, Queen Monineath, Benny Widyono, Killing Fields, Indonesia, U.N., Southeast Asia, Commandeur De L?ÓRdre Royal De Sahametrey, Roman Catholic, People?S Republic of Kampuchea, Angkor Wat, Phnom Phen, Hun Sen, Sihanouk, Dancing in Shadows, CNN HERO, Indonesian Consulate, Khmer Rouge, Kofi Annan, U.N. Peacekeeping, New York City, Thought Leader, Phymean Noun, Untac, U.N. Transitional Authority on Cambodia, Indonesian Chinese, Pol Pot, Siemreap Province, Connecticut, Sichan Siv, University of Indonesia, Cambodia, Global Citizen, Japan, Peoples Improvement Organization, Hong Lan Oei, Boutros Boutros Ghali, King Sihanouk, World News
Jim Luce

I first met Benny Widyono at an Indonesian Consulate fete years ago. I knew upon meeting him that he had an extraordinary mind and knew Asia's south...

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Evil in America? U.S. Fundamentalist Group to Burn Koran on 9/11

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Terry Jones, Communism, Europe, New York City Hall, Evil in America, Cultural Revolution, Islamophobia, Ten Reasons to Burn a Koran, Pakistan, Fascism, 9/11, Anti-Islamic, Prophet Mohammad, Canada, Donahue Show, Worldview, Fundamentalists Anonymous, Martin Niemoller, E-Filled Book., Moderates, Theology, Muslim, Gainesville, Manhattan, Fran Ingram, Jim Luce, World Trade Center Mosque, Atheism, Liberals, Florida, Germany, Islam Is of the Devil, Fundamentalist Mindset, Evil, United States, Islam Is Evil, Devil, God, Facebook, Freedom of Speech, Burn Koran, Dove World Outreach Center, Nazism, Hatred, Killing Fields, U.S. Fundamentalist Group, Christianity, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Aclu, Buddhism, Hinduism, Extremism, World News
Jim Luce

One need not journey to the mountains of Afghanistan or Pakistan to discover evil. We have our own home-grown variety of dangerous extremism here in ...

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Khmer Rouge 'Killing Fields' Leader Found Guilty Of War Crimes

AP | SOPHENG CHEANG | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Duch, Kaing Guek Eav, Khmer Rouge, Killing Fields, War Crimes, Genocide, Cambodia, United Nations, Pol Pot, World News

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — A war crimes tribunal sentenced the Khmer Rouge's chief jailer on Monday to a prison term that will see him serve less th...

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Cambodian Parliament Member Mu Sochua Visits U.S., Speaks on Lack of Human Rights at Home

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Paris Peace Accords, George Washington University, Vital Voices, Sam Rainsy Party, War, Thought Leaders, Diane Von Furstenberg, Cambodian Parliament, Thailand, Queen Noor of Jordon, Global Citizens, Sanitation, Human Trafficking, Southeast Asia, Health Centers, Bank of America, Urban Poor, Mu Sochua, vAllida Black, Cory Aquino, Queen Rania of Jordan, Jean-Michel Tijerina, Eleanor Roosevelt Award, Squatters, Genocide, Goldman Sachs' 10, Rights of Women, Sexual Exploitation, Cambodia Project, Exxon Mobil, Khmer Rouge, Washington D.C., Lincoln Center, Nobel Peace Prize, New York City, France, Women in Politics, Sam Rainsy, Aung San Suu Kyi, Human Rights, Land Rights, Ngos, Cambodia, Killing Fields, Hillary Clinton, 000 Women, Civil Society, Secretary of State, Poverty, Hp, Assassination, Kampot, Bradley Cox, Kennedy Center, Women-in-the-World-Stories-and-Solutions, Who Killed Chea Vichea?, World News
Jim Luce

Jean-Michel Tijerina, CEO and Founder of the Cambodia Project, insisted I must meet her. After an hour over coffee, I fully comprehended why. I wa...

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Enemies of the People Are People we Know

Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Big Sky Film Festival, Cambodia, Enemies of the People, Khmer Rouge Regime, Killing Fields, Vietnam War, Genocide, Khmer Rouge Trial, Khmer Rouge, Entertainment News
Stewart Nusbaumer

Cambodian Thet Sambath, a short man with a big smile, and British co-director Rob Lemkin, in The Enemies of the People seek to understand why a horrific orgy of killing happened.

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Haing Ngor's Murder: 'Killing Fields' Theory Won't Die

latimes.com | My-Thuan Tran | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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On a rainy night nearly 14 years ago, Haing Ngor parked his gold Mercedes in a graffiti-lined alleyway behind his apartment on the edge of Chinatown....

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Only in America: Ambassador Sichan Siv - From the Killing Fields to the White House

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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Jim Luce

I first met Ambassador Sichan Siv in 2004. He spoke on surviving Pol Pot's Killing Fields in Cambodia - and coming to America. He ended up working in the White House and then the United Nations.

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In Support of the Struggle for Democracy in Burma

José Ramos-Horta | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Darfur Genocide, Democratic Republic of Congo, Corazon Aquino, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Dictator Suharto, Imelda Marcos, Suharto Dictatorship, Rwanda Genocide, Darfur, Suu Kjie, Killing Fields, Genocide, Cambodia, Somalia, World War II, People's Power, UN Membership, Asean, World News
José Ramos-Horta

The new officer corps emerging in Burma should know that they have a historic opportunity to save their country and restore Burma's place in the world.

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`Killing Fields' Survivor Dith Pran Dies

AP | RICHARD PYLE | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Dith Pran, Cambodia, Killing Fields, Cambodian Journalist, Khmer Rouge, Media News

NEW YORK — Dith Pran, the Cambodian-born journalist whose harrowing tale of enslavement and eventual escape from that country's murderous Khmer ...

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