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Trump’s attacks on freedom of speech are a threat to us all – and not the product of a ‘big thinker’

The Observer 23 Mar 2025
Or is he? ... Staff have been furloughed and silenced ... Australia’s key ally has gone rogue – and Trump has us expertly wedged ... Read more ... It’s been used by regimes across history, including the Khmer Rouge whose trials I covered as a journalist in Cambodia.
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Haitians fear the imminent fall of Port-au-Prince to rebel gangs: ‘We will die standing’

AOL 23 Mar 2025
“Like Phnom Penh overrun by the Khmer Rouge, Saigon swallowed by north Vietnamese troops, Tripoli after Muammar Gaddafi’s fall, Sana’a seized by the Houthis, or Kabul taken by the Taliban – ...
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Letters to the editor for Saturday, March 22, 2025

Naples Daily News 22 Mar 2025
Harold A ... Prof ... If one looks at the arc of this type of thinking, if left unchecked and if MAGA has the reins of power, the country will inevitably see MAGA attempt to launch Khmer Rouge type re-education camps for die-hard anti-MAGA folks like myself.
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AZ Briefing: Aaron Gunches execution updates from Arizona; new burger restaurant in Scottsdale; Early autonomous vehicle testing underway

Azcentral 19 Mar 2025
Good morning, Arizona ...Look ... in fighting communist Khmer Rouge forces until the U.S ... Millions of Cambodians died during those years of battle that ended with the Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot’s genocidal “killing fields” spree from 1975-79.In 2003.
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Ming's on Broad brings Asian comfort food to Cranston. Here's what you'll find

The Providence Journal 19 Mar 2025
in the Edgewood neighborhood ... In Khmer, Ming means "Auntie" which reflects Korn's roots. Her parents escaped Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge of the 1970s and settled in Rhode Island, where they raised three children on the food of their home country.
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France tries Cambodian ex-PM’s guards

Manila Standard 19 Mar 2025
At least 16 people were killed and 150 injured.- Advertisement - ... He was lightly injured ... It was drawn into the Vietnam War in the late 1960s, and came under the rule of communist Khmer Rouge forces under strongman Pol Pot in the 1970s ... .
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France tries Cambodian ex-PM's guards over 1997 massacre

Atlantic News Telegraph 19 Mar 2025
At least 16 people were killed and 150 injured ... He was lightly injured ... It was drawn into the Vietnam War in the late 1960s, and came under the rule of communist Khmer Rouge forces under strongman Pol Pot in the 1970s ... cbr/jh/sjw/phz/sco ... .
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Princeton star Ashley Chea shines in upcoming documentary, 'Home Court,' ahead of Ivy Madness

CBS Sports 14 Mar 2025
... Chea's mother, Lida, and father, Baov, arrived in America in the 1990s as refugees from Cambodia, where their families had suffered under the Khmer Rouge -- Chea's grandmother once had to escape the regime's soldiers on a bicycle ... ... Connor Groel ... .
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Renowned Seattle restaurant founder, genocide survivor dies

The Oregonian 13 Mar 2025
Ung and his then-wife, Kim, came to Seattle in 1980 from a refugee camp on the Thailand-Cambodia border after escaping the genocide of the Khmer Rouge ... “He’s facing death and another Khmer Rouge (member) said, ‘Don’t do it,’ and his life was spared.
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Israel attacks on Gaza reproductive centres 'genocidal' - UN probe

RTE 13 Mar 2025
Israel's mission in Geneva said Israel "categorically rejects the unfounded allegations" ... 'Extermination' ... A UN-backed tribunal found two top leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime from 1975-79 guilty of genocide in a landmark ruling in 2018 ... .
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‘Meeting With Pol Pot’: The Danger of Talking With a Dictator

The Epoch Times 07 Mar 2025
... sanitized the Khmer Rouge’s mass murder of its people ... Frankly, she cautions against any attempt to plumb the depths of the Khmer Rouge’s madness.
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Adnan Syed to stay free after judge decides on time served in 'Serial' murder case

York News-Times 07 Mar 2025
Panh lost his own family under the rule of the Khmer Rouge government and was the only survivor. A documentary Panh made based on his past under the Khmer Rouge, called “The Missing Picture,” was told ...
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‘A first mistake is a last mistake’: The delicate art of clearing landmines

AOL 05 Mar 2025
But this is no ordinary picnic ... After eight years of brutal civil war, which ended in 1975, the Maoist-inspired Communist Khmer Rouge seized power in Cambodia ... The Khmer Rouge were ousted in 1998, but Cambodia’s suffering didn’t end there ... .
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