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Table of Contents Also by Joel Brinkley:Title PageDedicationPREFACEIntroduction CHAPTER ONECHAPTER TWOCHAPTER THREECHAPTER FOURCHAPTER FIVECHAPTER SIXCHAPTER SEVENCHAPTER EIGHTCHAPTER NINECHAPTER TENCHAPTER ELEVENCHAPTER TWELVECHAPTER THIRTEENCHAPTER FOURTEENCHAPTER FIFTEENCHAPTER SIXTEENCHAPTER SEVENTEEN EPILOGUEAcknowledgementsNOTESBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEXABOUT THE AUTHOR AND PHOTOGRAPHERCopyright Page
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For Charlotte and Veronica
PREFACEI was twenty-seven years old when I was first sent to Cambodia. At that time, barely four years out of college, I worked for the Louisville Courier-Journal in Kentucky. I was covering the Jefferson County School Board, writing about achievement-test scores and high school yearbook sales. Most recently, I’d helped compile the fall school bus–schedule supplement. The closest I’d ever come to international reporting was an overnight trip to Edmonton, Alberta, where I was assigned to write about a shopping mall.Still, one afternoon my editor, Bill Cox, tapped me on the shoulder and said, “Oh, by the way, we’d like you to go cover the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia and the refugee crisis.” “Oh, by the way,” he said—almost as if he meant: if you don’t have anything better to do.At first I wasn’t sure I believed him. After all, Cox was a jokester. While the circus was in town, he had managed to convince the circus masters to truck a full-size buffalo over to the newspaper. Cox brought it up the freight elevator and rode it around the newsroom, waving an oversize cowboy hat. So I did some investigation. It turned out that Jay Mather, a staff photographer, had seen a television clip about a Louisville physician who was working on the Thai-Cambodian border, treating refugees. Mather convinced the photo editor to send a reporter and photographer there to write about this doctor and the larger story.This was 1979. The Vietnam War had ended just four years earlier, but the convulsions it caused in neighboring states played out for years following. In Cambodia a few months after Saigon fell, Communist insurgents known as the Khmer Rouge overthrew Lon Nol, the military dictator who had been Washington’s man in Phnom Penh.Today the story of the Khmer Rouge crimes is well known. Two million Cambodians, one-quarter of the nation’s population, were killed d ............

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