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In this photo taken on Thursday, April 22, 2010, former foreign correspondents of war in Cambodia walk carefully at a paddy field of Kandoul, Kampong Speu province, about 70 kilometers (43 miles) south of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for their visit to the grave site. Two dozen aging colleagues trekked to this village to mourn and remember Thursday. And they honored the 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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