Destination: Cambodia
“Suicide Tourism” Web Sites Close
by Michael Yessis | 11.04.05 | 10:41 AM ET
Roger Graham’s Web sites offered to help people make arrangements to kill themselves in Cambodia, and the expat American shut them down voluntarily today in an effort to avoid a confrontation with local authorities. According to an AP report, one of the now-unavailable sites offered a rationale for suicide and links to purchase books on the subject. “You are going to die anyway,” Graham apparently wrote, “so why not in Cambodia?”
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Yahoo! BuzzBackpackers’ Killer Arrested in Cambodia
by Michael Yessis | 10.27.05 | 11:14 PM ET
Chhouk Rin, a former Khmer Rouge commander who was sentenced in absentia to life in prison for the 1994 murder of three backpackers, was arrested yesterday in Anlong Veng, Cambodia. Rin and his accomplices had abducted Australian David Wilson, Briton Mark Slater and Frenchman Jean-Michel Braquet from a Cambodian train traveling between Phnom Penh and the southern city of Sihanoukville, held the trio hostage for two months, then killed them. The travelers’ bodies were found in a shallow grave. Philip Gourevitch wrote about the events in the September 1995 issue of Outside magazine, and his story is still available online. It’s such a vivid piece of writing that when I read the news of Rin’s arrest today, Gourevitch’s story immediately came to mind, even though I read it 10 years ago.
Crossing Divides Into Cambodia
by Jim Benning | 12.01.04 | 5:50 PM ET
Tom Haines’ ambitious Boston Globe travel series “Crossing Divides” continued Sunday with a story about his journey through Laos and Cambodia. The story opens along Cambodia’s Mekong River. “[M]any living above and below the falls have witnessed the end of any illusions they may have had, not of colonial conquest, but of what to expect from life,” Haines writes. “A journey from Cambodia through the falls to Laos intersected time and again with this reckoning. An awareness of death was as vivid as life in a hilly jungle hamlet, below a thundering cataract, in a riverside temple, and in the farming village home of the sleeping newborn.”
Welcome to Khmer Rouge Land!
by John Collins | 03.05.04 | 8:42 PM ET
John Collins explores the theme park economy centered on Cambodia's Killing Fields
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