Original report from Phnom Penh
24 March 2010
Foreign journalists who covered Cambodia’s conflict will return in April to hold a ceremony for nearly 70 fallen comrades and establish a memorial in Phnom Penh.
Reporters and photographers from various Western agencies will join Cambodian colleagues from their past to remember the reporters who died covering Cambodia as it descended into war in the 1970s.
The group will arrive just after April 17, the 35th anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh to Khmer Rouge guerrillas.
“The presence of those journalist was a historic event that we did not pay attention to, so we should build a small stupa carved with all their names,” Chhang Song, who was a Lon Nol information minister and is helping organize the event, told VOA Khmer.
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