As I watch beads of water trickle through cracks in the hull of the 20-year-old, rough-hewn sampan chugging down the Huong Diem River, I begin to think about how I came to be a war crimes hunter. Here, deep in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, accompanied by my wife, photojournalist Tam Turse, and our translator, I’m on a mission to seek out and… return to article
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Reader Comments (1)Page 1 of 1 pagesMore Scars, Tears and Chains.
I’ll read your book, but I’m not looking forward to it. War crimes were also committed in Cambodia during the illegal war.
I’ve heard that more than 500,000 villagers were killed during the illegal bombing that took place. There was an article in my local paper written by a former pilot. He said that there should have been more bombing in order to free those people from the Khmer Rouge. Actually, it was the bombing that drove villagers (for safety) to join the Khmer Rouge, which was quite small at the time of the bombing.
Cambodians in the city also knew that the U.S. was bombing villagers along the Vietnam border. Hundreds of thousands of villagers ended up in Phnom Penh. When the Khmer Rouge entered the city and wanted people to evacuate quickly they would simply tell them the Americans bombers were coming.
It wasn’t only the bombing that contributed to the increase in size of the Khmer Rouge, but it was a major contributor. I’m sure there were also atrocities committed on the ground along the border as well. Has anyone written a detailed book about what happened along the Cambodia border?
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