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the types of roy, which nation became, is renamed. the hotel age was really the center of information for the was the, the can air rooms had taken anything of value out of the house. the which was a haven from the. ready the the

combo, the land of plains and rivers on the indo chinese mainland, the southeast asia, the many buildings in the capital loan reflected french colonial cost. including this hotel the, the count bowed in all command and pot dominate to the whole region a 1000 years ago. and visit to still come to marble of the n. cole watched the temple the largest religious complex in the world. but in the 20th century, war raged, even though china, for nearly 30 years of the cambodian civil war led to a genocide now world famous for its killing fields. when

journalists arrived to cover the conflict, they stay aid of this imposing old hotel was posted to cambodia to the capital city known pen um, in the beginning of may 1970 and i stayed in the hotel royal, which later became was renamed to the hotel, cannot buy the new government hotel look, know became a media hub, but it was also home from home for a host of reporters, photographers, camera, men, and local fix and big heard so colonial style friendship, so wonderful brand new style building was a beautiful gotten in the back with a swimming pool, high ceilinged, all the antique, and it was service a great place to relax it. and when, when to come back from the front lines of cambodia when, when we're ready to go. good. john swain came jumping on pen to cover the civil

war. but you'll understand cambodia then you'll have to look back to its independence from friends in 1953. soon after independence will broke out in neighboring vietnam between the coming is no supported by china or on the soviet union and the government of the south banks by the united states. at 1st, the count bode young king seeing a new chose neutrality. but in 1963, he did a deal with the north vietnamese to allow them to station troops in cambodia. this ultimately led to the u. s. bombing cambodia. for full years from 1969 to 1973. king c, a new lost power and the crew secretly banked by the us in 1970 his replacement prime minister law. no, he did the right wing pro us command republic in revenge that he posed king in

exile support. it is full, my enemies. the coming is to me, a rouge headed by paul paul. this trigger for russia civil war, which pitts at the command rouge on the exiled print, see a new national front against lo, know government forces. this was when weston journalist began to cover cambodia as well as vietnam. and lou while rename does look know became cambodia as role hotel. and dc. jim laurie was also posted to building 10. i initially went to cambodia in 1970 less than a month after i had arrived inside on that time. president richard nixon launched the invasion of cambodia in april of 1970 i got to uh to put on pen. once again. i was too poor to stay at the luxury royal hotel,

which changed his name later to the the put on because the government that was installed was at the royalist, the asked of the crew would remove. let's see. a new can. 1970 cambodia became a huge battle ground law knows government forces attacked and muster could estimate via the meanings and cambodians who supported the communist committee a rouge at the same time, the communists under their lead, uphold, talked, gained more support, and responded with equal bonds. journalists were increasingly vulnerable whenever they left the sanctuary of love to know and ventured out to the front line k web from united press international was kidnapped by the committee, a rouge assume dead, but reappeared 23 days later. as i said, it was a haven haven from the already and it was a joy to come back that we would,

i ideally, we would find on our colleagues that that would be alive and well. but sometimes, as i said, we would come back and we'd find that 5 or 6 colleagues hadn't returned. and in a 2 month period when i was the 20 journalist more than $22.00 in this were killed or miss went missing. and they're obviously dead by being ambushed by the committee rouge. to jen lists what killed by the committee, a rouge crossing the notorious route to on the 28th of october 1917. i can recall the terrible incident when a gentleman, sco frank for us. she worked for united press international, disappear with a very famous japanese, put a surprise when he photographer, kind of where she sorta, and they were both ambushed down the road. and i thought i'd just let me just on with you united press international k 12, who's also very famous she,

she had to identify frank's body. she couldn't write the story for you if she was too upset to write it. and a wonderful man, a reporter for associated press coach on wheeler, who was in competition with the see what for the associated press, she will, if you're not depressed international, he wrote the story for her. and for you p i and put a name on it. the civil will gradually intensified as the can me a ruse, gain ground at the expense of government forces when the power is peace accords with signed in january, 1973, ending the vietnam war. lo know, announced a unit electro, she's fine. but the committee, a rouge ignored it, and prestone towards film pen. so the united states ramped up the bombing campaign

operation, freedom deal. and its last days, us planes dropped over $250000.00 tons of bones, killing thousands of command rouge fi to the one of the few journalists able to get in to cambodia at that time was a young french photographer who went on to take the most iconic pictures of the full of put on pants with a friend together. we in 1973. i mean we decide to fly to combine them and see 1st hand uh what was you know, what is working into was on. so eventually we arrive in the, in the summer, in that, in some pen. and just in time to see the last that would be $52.00 carpet bombing is not simpler. when you get into the account, we have to do it, have to figure out us define where as your as our reports, as i mean,

where you need the information that you need to really kind of a understand what's going on. and in fact, um, uh, sure enough, i mean there was one place in benway where you could get all that stuff done. and that was a, the, the, what that for the, the send you a correspondence. and uh, it was really the center of information for the, for the, for war through 1974 and into 1975. the committee, a rouge moved closer to blown pen, began to lay siege to the city. while the count body an army blocked the main roads into the capital, living conditions deteriorated us food and water supplies were disrupted. on the 3rd march, 1975, the committee a rouge show put on pen. i'm punching tongue apple indiscriminately killing many civilians. this rocket attack outside the mon or on hotel killed 11 people.

aluminum also fell on defiance. i do remember when rook at west floating around 010, i mean we had, it doesn't matter. what was the west side ring rock that's from about 5 to 10 miles away outside of the city. and able to be rushing back in the air. you know, this is, you know, around, it's actually, you know, that had that around the, the, the risk for an area to, to, to, to be safe. you know, as a committee, a rouge titan gets grip on the capital. prime minister law, no fled to indonesia. while jim lorry came back to film, pan. i returned to cambodia again in 1975. i arrived and covered the final days of the, of the, basically a very sad decline of any chance that the cambodians had to withstand the committee or rulers. as the communists advanced,

the us launched a dramatic ellis operation. ego poll began on the 12th of april, 1975, and the americans evacuated hundreds of their own citizens and cambodians from the country. meanwhile, the mood inside left no room, all tents for both the cambodian stuff and the journalist. the last time i really had the breakfast in the, in the dump and then was that the or to had and that was on the day that or you can electrician. it was kind of a secret not as, as being passed on to the toiletries and some i've been told. okay, you want to leave patio sing and go to the embassy. there was a d'andre by staying because the command rose as it was before. and you're asked to leave and this thing, so we were being one that we had to leave. i mean, in that way. so i've had decided to stay. jim laurie and many of the following

correspondence, however, decided it was time to leave laurie film, his journey on an 8 millimeter camera. why left on the 12th of april, 1975 on a helicopter from brown penn. off into the gulf of thailand, onto the us as ok. now, one of a number of american ships that were there for the cambodians evacuation, who were then later repositioned for the vietnam evacuation journalist shuttle between vietnam and ken bode yet. despite warnings of the impending danger, john swayne arrived back in some pen. i arrived at the hotel to them and that i immediately bumped into sidney shomberg as in new york times, how rock of freedoms photographer, who had done a lot of work for sitting in the new york times,

and sit in his interpreted problem. so we teamed up as a band and cupboard the last days of non pen as the command rouge moved. and as the seeds got tied to last 3 or 4 days, refugees started crowding around the hotel because they felt safer in the presence at westminster. and the red cross took over the hotel into communities and international design, and then started lifting cambodians and who wanted to shelter until the hotel suddenly the ground space spacious grounds. well occupied by a mass of people. here's a though it's out of the the way they decide to make it as a up in the, for the, for everybody. so the referred g locations. it will be over here with that. in the middle of this step is this closer symmetrical team working for the red cross. one

of my visit memories for that period was going into the season and talked to them and they were operating on a very badly wounded canadian soldiers who being brought in the and it died on on the table. i mean, that was nelson operating table the toilet and assess the hotel table with a, with a she type rich and time and t and t and t died. but they were doing the best they were up. so do you think everyone was doing that best to help everyone else running the work by the what non i see that was a wednesday afternoon and those various people over there are, these are a few stuff there. and a refugee's web ex got throwed into that as a god and and um and um, you know, as a food and everything there was, it was very quiet, really, very quiet. this was when the photographed domestics it is from no 10 on the boulevard outside the hotel

to commit a ruse claim the americans were about to bomb the city and ordered everyone to leave many thousands of cambodians who less that day. never return to that home on the last day and everybody was putting into town and all the people that men leaving around the edges of of, of lump and with putting into town escaping the firefight and my beach on it. on the evening. you know what might be wrong as to that he is black and was people is full of people, you know, just not knowing where to go. old furnace and non pen was being told to go to the french embassy. so we rushed back to the hotel, which was in a cale succeed, sorry. remember the, the, the can back into being referred to you to be in sheltering the will. so leaving because the commentaries are told to the everyone in the city to move out since

a countryside they were evacuating associates. john swain, sidney schon book, a wrote call from dip from spent that night in the post office near the hotel. we came back to the hotel early in the morning to re atmosphere erie atmosphere where people were very frightened. they knew this, the convergence, they knew who was living in the hotel, and also the 10000000000 stops they knew that the city was forwarding to the command rouge could arrive uh at any time the, the last minutes i spent so we spent in the hotel really very distressing because we but we were leaving the hotel which you know, home for a site is 5 to minutes you'll see is when we've seen lots of things, but we've also had a lot of fun and we going to know and love the stuff and it was with

terrible sense with management and the stuff we're touching us, imploring us not to leave and suddenly we returning the call back something that serves. it was a, it was a difficult time to leave, but that is the thing are we have to go and we couldn't take them with us and you get into these countries and do you, you could leave, but you least people behind. so the command rouge gave everyone in the hotel just haul finality leave roll on the was already of the french embassy. what's happened on the 17,

the fighting stuff very, very early on that day. like i think around 4 o'clock in the morning, it was less fighting or around the embassy. and we saw the 1st command was looking through the this up, an area and things around 9 o'clock in the morning. nova took these dramatic pictures of the full known pen. swain shunned the rock, coughing disk from joining the nearly 600 other people taking refuge in the french embassy. the command rouge ordered all the combo dns to leave. this primes life was at stake. his friends tried to save him by forging one of john swayne spare possibles? i had a 2nd possible push responsible. and so i thought that he would be the trend, the cheapest net police. and we said we could have a bush,

if possible. it doesn't activities. so we change my name around and be stripped off my face it off on the passport and he had a picture, much shows himself, so we stuck that table. and then from decided, well he would take his chances and just leave. it was like best for him and he didn't want to be the last company to leave. so he left with one of the last groups that was very emotional. sidney broke down. i think i broke down and we will talk to each other. and he, uh, worked out as soon as the gates of the embassy into the unknown and disappeared for that spot for us. this friend spent those full years in combat rouge. labour ken's before escaping to thailand in 1979 where he was where united with sydney shan bug and the 2 went to

the us to get in from died there in 2008. sidney shomberg. one, the opponent surprised, but he's cambodia coverage in 1976 and died in 2016. but they in the story along with john swain and our real cause will re multiplies in the 1984 oscar winning film, the killing fields. 2 weeks after prime left the journalist and the french embassy, where he evacuated to thailand. hotel no fell into disrepair and remain closed for several years. jim lorry returned to cambodia in 1979. look, now must become the base for several international relief agencies. and laurie took these read pictures of the hotel, the still cold, blue. why?

i happened to be among the 1st journalist to arrive in cambodia after the vietnamese had expelled the canal rouge. in january of 1979. i arrived in april of 1979 and i stayed for the 1st time at the royal hotel and put on pen. it was a mess. the canal a rouge had taken anything of value out of the hotel. it even removed the mirrors. the water was not working, we had to go down to the swimming pool area to get water to baze. the, the, the, me, military had taken over the hotel. they were using their swimming pool and they would stop the pool with fish. so we had fresh fish to eat in the evening at the hotel. by this time they decide to change the name of the hotel one more time. and they called it the summer key hotel. we can compare met, solidarity between cambodia and vietnam. it was only in the 1990s

that the royal hotel was returned to its former splendor when it was totally renovated by a single party. and for it took him bodie a years to recover from the cruel legacy of the command rouge. and as a one and a half 1000000 people up buried in these killing fields, the, the pen was gradually rebuilt. people returned to live the on the 1993 hotel, the gnome was restore to the glitter, somebody's glory days, and renamed lay out the hotel. it suddenly deserves the type of wool hotel. it was it was a haven from the wall as well as being a little hotel. it was a, it was a haven. it was that it was a place that we jo. his is regarded as have

a 37 journalists were killed during the cambodian civil war in february 2003. many correspondence we tend to cambodia to unveil a starting memorial bearing the names of the phone and called the u. p. i. journalist k web continued to cover conflicts in asia until 2001. she died in australia in 2007, nearly half a century owned from the war. john swain, who wrote on the on jim laurie, continue to write and talk about the life defining experiences in cambodia and of course on hotel. no, the coverings war is um. i mean, it can be very risky for the said, but also when you lose your friend noticing. so it's even more like, uh, uh,

how many you mean for your life? in my particular case, i had very good friends in cambodia who got trapped behind to survive. 3 did not survive, but at least 2 of them did survive. one, i was able to get out of cambodia years years later, and i kept coming back to me and to try to time and again. and i think that do always be the central part of my life the well it's, it's a that's a whole experience of 5 years and come back and get them to me. the most important part of my life i so life which is roughest. it's ms. richard smith's miserable, but i was there so of life with its deepest reading certain method.

um and um, so it's, it's some, it's something which i i, i carry forever within me the weather. so what are the most popular discuss this to how far cody button we don't need

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