My friend Jim Higgins, the journalist I first met when he profiled FmH in a July, 2000 Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel feature and who shares with me being an adoptive father, sent me several blinks about Cambodia that might be of interest. His son is from Cambodia:

“Closer to Trial: Cambodia’s National Assembly approved guidelines to set up a tribunal to try the leaders of the Khmer Rouge movement. AsiaSource sums up the latest news and provides extensive links to related articles, opinion pieces and Cambodian-related Web sites, including the excellent Cambodia Genocide Program at Yale University.

“The Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia from 1975 until their overthrow by Vietnam in 1979. During that time, an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians died from starvation, execution, overwork and disease. In April 1998, Pol Pot, the group’s leader, died under Khmer Rouge house arrest in the Cambodian jungle. Most of the other leaders defected to the government between 1995 and 1998 in exchange for an informal amnesty.

“My colleague Catherine Fitzpatrick interviewed Loung Ung, a child survivor of the Khmer Rouge genocide, when she was visiting Milwaukee on a book tour. Today she is national spokeswoman for the Campaign for a Landmine-Free World, sponsored by the Vietnam Veterans of America in Washington, D.C.” Thank you, Jim. [I added the blink (above) to an outpouring of feeling I had upon learning of Pol Pot’s death, which persists on the web in an archive of the defunct Fringeware mailing list to which I contributed in the old days before weblogging.]