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In this photo taken on Thursday April 22, 2010, Cambodian Linda Chin, center, lays down a bouquet of flowers near a portrait of her former husband, Chhim Sarat, during a ground-breaking ceremony for a memorial to journalists killed duirng the Cambodian conflict, at Kandoul, about 70 kilometers (43 miles) south of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Chin's husband worked for the United Press International in early 1970s. Two dozen aging colleagues on Thursday trekked to this village to mourn and remember dozens of reporters, photographers and cameramen who died covering the five-year war that ended in 1975 with the takeover by the brutal Khmer Rouge. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith).jpg)
In this photo taken on Thursday April 22, 2010, Cambodian and foreigner correspondents pay respects during a ground-breaking ceremony for a memorial to journalists killed duirng the Cambodian conflict, at Kandoul, about 70 kilometers (43 miles) south of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Two dozen aging colleagues on Thursday trekked to this village to mourn and remember dozens of reporters, photographers and cameramen who died covering the five-year war that ended in 1975 with the takeover by the brutal Khmer Rouge. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)By MIKE ECKEL and SOPHENG CHEANG
The Associated Press
KANDOUL, Cambodia — The bodies were dumped in a shallow grave amid the untilled earth of rice paddies: five journalists who had been ambushed by Khmer Rouge and Viet Cong guerrillas on May 31, 1970.
Om Pao, then 12, remembers the stench of decay for days after. He helped his father heap more earth on top of the remains to keep the smell down, the pigs out and the bodies from floating away.
In all, nine journalists — American, Indian, Japanese, French and Cambodian — were attacked that day near this dusty village south of the capital, Phnom Penh. All are believed to have been killed. It was one of the deadliest incidents for reporters in the wars in Vietnam and Cambodia, in a year that remains one of the deadliest anywhere for journalists
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