Former War Correspondents Honor Fallen Reporters

Carle Robinson, center, from the U.S. prays for journalists who died while covering the Cambodian conflict during a Buddhist ceremony at a paddy rice of Kandoul, in Kampong Speu province. (Photo: AP)

Nearly 30 reporters, as well as other well-wishers, drove down National Road 3, to Wat Bo pagoda, in Kampong Speu province’s Borset district, where nine of their number were killed.

Kong Sothanarith, VOA
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Monday, 26 April 2010

Forty years ago, National Road 3 was a highway to a war. The reporters and photographers who covered the Cambodian conflict in the 1970s would drive down the road, report, and return to the capital to file.

Last week, nearly four decades later, some of those journalists returned. They had come to honor their fallen comrades and remember the years they spent reporting the fall of Cambodia.

Nearly 30 reporters, as well as other well-wishers, drove down National Road 3, to Wat Bo pagoda, in Kampong Speu province’s Borset district, where nine of their number were killed. There, they paid their respects and planted a Bodhi tree.

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