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Memorial for Cambodia war journalists opened

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Phnom Penh - AFP

Cambodia yesterday unveiled a memorial to dozens of foreign and local journalists who died while covering the 1970-75 war that was won by the communist Khmer Rouge regime. At least 37 journalists were killed or disappeared during the brutal conflict between the US-backed Lon Nol government and Khmer Rouge guerrillas. Their names are engraved on the memorial built in a public park in front of Phnom Penh’s Le Royal Hotel, which was a meeting place for foreign correspondents in the 1970s. They included reporters, photographers and television cameramen from Japan, France, the United States, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, India, Laos, Australia and Cambodia. “Their words, their images will remain with us forever,” Chhang Song, a former information minister in the Lon Nol government, said at the ceremony. Buddhist monks performed religious rites and veteran war reporters and other participants held a minute’s silence. Up to two million people were executed or died of starvation or overwork under the Khmer Rouge, after the hardline movement swept to power on April 17, 1975 and emptied cities in an attempt to create a communist utopia. The slain journalists included AFP reporter Marc Filloux, who was killed in April 1974 along with his interpreter Manivanh after travelling to Cambodia to interview Khmer Rouge leaders.

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