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Workers Collapsing While Making Your H&M Clothes and Puma Shoes: Where's the Mass Outcry?

Anne Elizabeth Moore, TruthOut.org. April 5, 2012.

70 percent of the clothing made in Cambodia is sold in the United States--where's the Foxconn-style outrage over atrocious conditions for garment workers?

Last Chance for Justice: Will Khmer Rouge Leaders Finally Face Consequences for the Killing Fields?

Irwin Loy, Inter Press Service. November 25, 2011.

Three senior Khmer Rouge leaders are on trial in what may be the last major legal case against the group's leaders, but many call the trial a sham.

Khmer Rouge Leaders Indicted; Reparations Uncertain, However

Irwin Loy, IPS News. September 21, 2010.

Youk Chhang, director of a research team that has compiled a vault of evidence archiving the regime’s abuses, says it is the most important trial in Cambodian history.

Tribunal Puts Pol Pot-Era Prison Director Away for 35 Years But Ignores U.S. Involvement; U.S. Embassy Celebrates Relationship

Tom Fawthrop, Foreign Policy in Focus. August 31, 2010.

The Obama administration should stop demanding that Cambodians pay for the bombs used to kill so many of their fellow citizens.

Could U.S. Air Strikes Push Pakistan into Khmer Rouge Type Genocide?

Pratap Chatterjee, Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com. February 7, 2010.

As in the 1960s in Cambodia, U.S. air strikes are having a devastating effect in Pakistan, not just on the targeted communities, but on public consciousness throughout the region.

Why Obama Has No Business Trying War in the Nuclear-Armed Powder Keg of Pakistan

Why Obama Has No Business Trying War in the Nuclear-Armed Powder Keg of Pakistan

Fred Branfman, Truthdig. October 9, 2009.

The U.S. has even less control over events in Pakistan than it does in Afghanistan -- Obama's really playing with fire here.

A Poisoned Paradise: Cambodia's Water Crisis

Rob Sharp, The Independent UK. March 28, 2008.

The effect of pollution and climate change on freshwater resources are posing a deadly threat.

Cambodia: Decades After the Bombs, Enter the Beatboxers

Suzy Khimm, AlterNet. December 24, 2007.

As part of its campaign to bolster America's image, the State Department is funding a hip-hop funk group from New York to tour Southeast Asia.

Bush Gets Away with Lies, Lies and More Lies in History-Illiterate America

AlterNetAugust 27, 2007.

George Bush and other Iraq War supporters have argued that if we withdraw from Iraq the result will be like the killing fields of Cambodia -- an odd comparison considering that the US has direct responsibility for that holocaust.

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