J.B. Spins

Too often, the media and Twitter (X) users just shrug their shoulders at genocide, so we inevitably get more of it, like Hamas’s horrifying ...

The stakes are high, but the proceedings of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal are often tediously dry. To some extent, the legalistic tone is nece...

By now, everyone should fully understand the Khmer Rouge killed approximately two million Cambodians (maybe more) in their attempt to cre...

Before the Khmer Rouge take-over, Phnom Penh was a happening city, particularly if you were a musician. Once their reign of terror commen...

Martin Scorsese needs to dispatch an emergency film preservation team to Cambodia.  From 1960 to 1975 about 450 films were produced in t...

For one New Zealander, a Canadian, and a British subject sailing through Asia, straying off course became a capital crime.  It was their...

Somewhat fittingly, the English translation of Tuol Sleng is “Hill of the Poisonous Trees.”  During the reign of the Communist Party of ...

Euphemisms can be terrible instruments of evil. For instance, when former Khmer Rouge cadres speak of “solving problems” what they really re...

Academy Award-winning actor and physician Dr. Haing S. Ngor’s 1996 murder in apparent hold-up attempt seemed like a case of fate gone cosmic...

What do Pol Pot, Klaus Barbie, Carlos the Jackal, the Red Army Faction, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) have ...