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Khmer Rouge genocide survivor Sambath died

May 27th, 2011 · 1 Comment

Sambath Reach, Cambodian veteran journalist who survived the Khmer Rouge killing fields as an orphan to later become the spokesman of Cambodia’s war crimes court, died from a stroke on May 11. He was only 47.

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Remembering Peter Prüfert

October 14th, 2010 · 19 Comments

Anybody who talked to Peter Prüfert for a few minutes would have immediately guessed he was a well-travelled man. And they’d have been correct. Peter had been everywhere. The first time I met him he told me where I could find the best chocolate cake in Manila…my home city. That was summer of 1984, when [...]

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