Who is Duch?
Antonia D. Bryan
Duch ran a well-oiled machine. He processed people, personally approving every confession.
Tag: Cambodia
Meet Kill
Sebastian Strangio
When Kem Ley’s murderer was asked for his name, he offered a chilling sobriquet: Meet Kill.
Damming the Mekong
Michael Buckley
Vietnam lies at the wrong end of the Mekong River.
The Bangkok plot
Luke Young
William J. Rust sheds new light on postwar Cambodia
Regeneration
George Chigas
A new generation of Cambodian writers are given voice in English in Modern Literature of Cambodia
Poetry
Maung Chaw Nwe, Sokunthary Svay
The latest in verse from around the Mekong region
Politics and patronage
Robert Turnbull
Personal patronage keeps the Cambodian arts alive
Wrong season dengue
Kim Philley
Dengue fever may become one of this century’s most devastating pandemics
Victor’s justice
Minh Bui Jones
The international defence counsel-cum-Khmer Rouge fellow traveller
Cambodia’s lost literary life
George Chigas
Cambodia’s first Khmer-language literary journal
This old house
Kevin Doyle
Since this house was built, Cambodia’s name has changed half a dozen times
Lost ground
Chris Taylor
Nostalgia, destruction and unplanned reconstruction
Wayne’s wat
Jeff Kisseloff
Decades after Vietnam, Wayne Matthysse discovered why he was still alive
Hidden history
Luke Hunt
Steven Boswell talks about his book King Norodom’s Head
Chasing the past
Rajan Venkataraman
The Last Reel and A Tomb for Khun Srun, for all their differences, share striking parallels
Purity and Danger
Minh Bui Jones
Putting the family ghost to rest
Mad, bad and French
Michelle Vachon
Michelle Vachon explores the “bad Frenchmen” of Indochina
Charity rock
Rupert Winchester
The story behind the Concert for the People of Kampuchea
Lizards of Phnom Penh
Luke Hunt
Material deemed unfit for the news pages found a home in “The Gecko”