Khmer Rouge Trial starts with Head of S-21 Torture Center.
On February 17,2009, Duch, 66, will be the first leader of Cambodia’s brutal 1975-1979 Khmer Rouge regime to stand trial atthe UN-backed genocide tribunal. Duch headed Phnom Penh’s notorious Tuol Sleng prison and torture center, known as S-21. Also in detention awaiting trial are « Brother Number Two » Nuon Chea, former head of state Khieu Samphan, ex-foreign minister Ieng Sary and his wife Ieng Thirith, who was the minister of social affairs.
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Ratanakiri, a forgotten land.
It took a combination of boats and cars and two full days travel to reach what is the most remote corner of Cambodia.
Ratanakiri, which name means « Gemstone Mountain », has in fact only recently returned on the map of the country. The natural beauty and the many hidden and not hidden resources of the region are now giving reasons to many Cambodian migrants and to some foreign enterprises to settle in what is also the ancestral land of the several minority groups living in Cambodia. Known as « Khmer Loeu » (Highlanders) the minority people of the country have been left undisturbed for almost half a century.
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Le ballet Royal du Cambodge.
« De la magnificence d’Angkor, l’ancienne capitale de l’Empire khmer, il ne reste pas seulement les plus beaux temples d’Extrême-Orient, vertigineuses cathédrales surgissant de la forêt tropicale. Un art sacré, la danse, a survécu jusqu’à nos jours au travers des invasions et même du génocide Khmer Rouge », déclare avec passion la princesse Buppha Devi, qui était danseuse-étoile dans les années 60.
Sous sa direction, le Ballet Royal a retrouvé la splendeur et la magie d’antan.
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