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Ready ah ah ah ah ah ah, ah ah, ah rodeo a land of planes of the rivers on the indo chinese mainland, the southeast asia, many buildings and the capital loan pan reflect its French Colonial past, including bis hotel ah, the cambodian o command and pot dominated the whole region, a 1000 years ago and visited still come to marvel at the ankle watch temple, the largest religious complex in the world. But in the 20th century, war raged in indo china for nearly 30 years. Of the cambodian civil war led to a genocides now world famous for its killing field when journalists arrived to cover the conflict. Thanks. Said this imposing old hotel, i was posted to cambodia to the capital city norm pen in the beginning of may 1970 and i stayed in the hotel royal which later became was renamed. The hotel cannot buy the new Government Hotel looked know became a media hub, but it was also home from home for a host of reporters, photographers, camera, men, and local fix a big hotel, colonial style, french hotel, wonderful renewal style building with a beautiful garden in the back with a swing pool, high ceilinged, all antique, and it was service a great place to relax. And when, when to come back from the front lines of cambodia, when the, when was already got going on, john swayne came jumping on pen to cover the civil war. But you understand cambodia, then you have to look back to its independence from france in 1953 soon after independence war broke out in neighboring viet nam, between the communist north, supported by china on the soviet union and the government of the self backed by the United States. At 1st the cambodian king cnu chose neutrality. But in 1963, he did a deal with the north vietnamese to allow them to station troops in cambodia. This ultimately led to the u. S. Bombing cambodia for 4 years from 1969 to 973 kings cnu los power, and a qu secretly backed by the us in 1970. His replacement Prime Minister law, no headed the right wing pro us commit republic. In revenge, the deposed king in exile support to his former enemies, the communist kimmy a rouge had did by pole pump. This trigger, the ferocious civil war, which pictured the command ruge and the exiled prince c on the national front, against the law. No Government Forces. This was when west and journalist began to cover cambodia as well as vietnam. And lou, why l rename does look gnome became cambodia as war. Hotel, nbc jim lorry was also posted to pen. I initially went to cambodia in 1970 less than a month after i had arrived in saigon at that time. President Richard Nixon launched an invasion of cambodia in april of 1970 i got to up to put on pen. Once again, i was too poor to stay at the luxury royal hotel, which changed his name later to the the panel because the government that was installed was anti royalist ah, after the crew and removal of see a new can. 970. 00 cambodia became a huge Battle Ground law knows Government Forces attacked and massacred ethnic vietnamese and cambodians who supported the communist commit. Ruge. At the same time the communists under their lead, a whole part gained more support and responded with equal violence. Journalists were increasingly vulnerable whenever they left the sanctuary of love to nome, ventured out to the front line case where from United Press International was kidnapped by the committee. A rouge assume dead, but reappeared 23 days later. As i said, it was a haven haven from the will already and it was a joy to come back that we would ideally, we would find all our colleagues back there. They would be alive and well. But sometimes, as i said, we would come back and wed find that 5 or 6 colleagues hadnt returned. And in a 2 month period when i was 20 german us, more than 20 journalists were killed or miss went missing. And theyre upset dead by being ambushed by the commander rouge. 2 journalists were killed by the command ruge crossing the notorious route to on the 28th of october 1917. I can recall the terrible incident when gentleness school frank for she worked for United Press International, disappeared with a very famous japanese, put a surprise winning photographer guy, where she saw ada and they were both ambushed down the road and fellow journalist limojonahs on with you United Press International k 12, whos also very famous. She, she had to identify franks body. She couldnt write the story for you. She was too upset to righteous and a wonderful man. A reporter for Associated Press called john wheeler, who was in competition with her. Because he worked for the associate press, she worked for United Press International, he wrote the story for her for you p i and put her name on it. The civil war gradually intensified as the committee a ruse gained ground at the expense of government for me. When the paris peace accords was signed in january, 973. 00, ending the vietnam war law, no announced a unilateral cease but the command rouge ignored it and prestone towards close pen. So the United States ramped up the Bombing Campaign operation, freedom deal. And its last days, us planes dropped over 250000 tons of bond killing thousands of command rouge fight. And one of the few journalists able to get in to cambodia at that time was a young french photographer who went on to take the most iconic pictures of the fall of snow pen. It was a friend together. We in 1973. I mean, we decide to fly to come by and see firsthand what was what is working into was on. So eventually we arrive in a summer in pen and just in time to see the last b 52 carpet bombing. Oh, its not simpler when you get into a country, you have to figure out you have to find where as the order report, as i mean, where you need the information and you need to really kind of understand whats going on. And in fact, sure enough, i mean there was one place in non benway where you could get all that stuff done. And that was the hotel for the senior correspondent. And i, it was really the center of information for the, for the world war through 974 and into 975. The commit rouge move closer to plough pen a began to lay siege to the city. While the count, body and army blocked the main roads into the capital. Living conditions deteriorated as food and Water Supplies were disrupted. On the 3rd of march, 1975, the commander roost shell put on pan and punch and tong airport indiscriminately killing many civilians. This rocket attack outside the monarchy hotel killed 11 people, and the norm also fell on defiance. I do remember when rocket were floating around the or tell, i mean we had, you know, the command rooms that were firing rockets from about 5 to 10 miles away outside of the city. And the rushing back of the cell, you know, you said around that. So you know, that had that around the reception area to, to, to, to be safe. You know, as a committee, a ruse tightened its grip on the capital. Prime minister law, no fled to indonesia. While jim lorry came back to put on pen. I returned to cambodia again in 1975. I arrived and covered the final days of the, of the basically very sad decline of any chance that the cambodians had to withstand the commercial rouge. As the communists, advanced the u. S. Lodge to dramatic airlift operation, eagle pool began on the 12th of april, 975. 00, and the americans evacuated hundreds of their own citizens and cambodians from the country. Meanwhile, the mood inside look, gnome grew more tense for both the cambodian stuff and the journalist. The last time i really had the breakfast in, not in comp, and then was that the author and that was on the day the amory can evacuation. It was kind of a secret as being passed on to the jewelry and some ive been told ok, you want to leave that youre seeing and go to the embassy. There was a danger by staying because the mirror had as it was for us to leave. And the thing, so we were being warned that we had to leave them in in a way. So ive had decided to stay jim lorry and many other foreign correspondents, however, decided it was time to leave. Lorry filmed his journey on an 8 millimeter camera. Why left on the 12th of april, 1975 on a helicopter from been on penn off into the gulf of thailand, onto the u. S. S. Ok, our one of a number of american ships that were there for the cambodians evacuation, who were then later repositioned for the vietnam, evacuation journalist shuttle between vietnam and cambodia. Despite warnings of the impending danger, john swayne arrived back in pen. I arrived to the hotel plum and i immediately bumped into sydney shamburger the new york times. Are rocca freelance photographer, who done a lot of work for sydney in the new york times. And sydneys interpreter did pran. So he teamed up as a band and covered the the last days of non pen as the carriage moved and o as the siege got tighter. In the last 3 or 4 days, refugees started crowding around the hotel because they felt safer in the presence of westerners and the red cross took over the hotel and declared as an international zone. And then started letting convergence and who wanted to shelter. And so the hotel suddenly the grounds, very spacious grounds, were occupied by a mass of people here, though the weather decided to make it up for everybody. So the refugee walking in the middle of this, that was a scottish medical team working for the red cross. One of my visit memories for that period was going in to see them and talked to them. And they were operating on a very badly wounded conveyed in soldier who been brought in and died on, on the table. I mean, it was not an operating table at all. It was just her to the table with the sheet over it and him and he and he and he died. But they were doing the best. They were upsetting. Everyone was doing their best to help everyone else really in a walk. By the way. There was a wednesday afternoon and those very few what over there like a few stuff there and the refugees were scattered into the garden and near the food and everything there was it was very quiet, really, very quiet. All this was when photograph the mass exodus from pen on the boulevard outside the hotel in the command room claimed the americans were about to bomb the city and ordered every one to leave many thousands of cambodians who left that day never return to their home. And the last name, everybody was pouring into town them in all the people in leaving around the edges of number were pulling into town, escaping the firefight and my other evening. You know what my the longest to tell you is black and white. People are full of people, you know, just not knowing where to go. All foreigners in non pen, were being told to go to the French Embassy. If so, we rushed back to the hotel, which was in a chaotic scene as remember that the cambodians had been refugees, hooping sheltering. There were also leaving because the cameras had ordered the everyone in the city to move on to the countryside. They were evacuating the city. John swayne, sidney schoenberg, l rock coffin depth, primes spent that night in the post office near the hotel. We came back to the hotel early in the morning to re atmosphere area where people were very frightened, they knew the convergence. They knew who are living in the hotel and also a cam 1000000000 stuff. They knew that the city was falling, that the roof could arrive at any time in the last minutes i spent so we spent in the hotel ready very distressing. Because we were, we were leaving the hotel, which would mean our home for 5 years. 5 human uses when wed seen lots of things, but we also had a lot of fun and we going to know and love the stuff. And it was with terrible sense with adamant and the stuff touching us, imploring us not to leave. And suddenly we returning the callback summer serves it was, it was a difficult time to leave, but that isnt, you know, we had to go and we couldnt take them with us and youve dipped into these countries and do you can leave, but you leave people behind the Committee Room gave everyone in the hotel just half an hour to leave roller nova was already at the French Embassy. Whats up in the 7th in the fighting stock . Very, very early on that day. Like around 4 oclock in the morning. It was the last fighting all around the embassy and we saw the 1st come arrows walk into the this up, an area around 9 oclock in the morning. Never took these dramatic pictures of the fall of no pen swain shun, grow coffin death crime. Joined the nearly 600 other people taking refuge in the French Embassy. The command rouge ordered all the combo dns to leave. This primes life was at stake. His friends tried to save him by forging one of john swayne spare passports. I had a 2nd passport, capricious passport, and so i thought that the trend that he was nepalese and we said he could have a british passport us and i thought he, so we changed my name around and we stripped off my photograph and the passport and he had a picture, a mug shot himself, so he stuck that over and then probably decided, well he would take his chances and just leave it was best for him and he didnt want to be the last converted to leave. So he left was one of the last groups it was very emotional. Sidney broke down. I think i broke down. We will hunt each other. And he walked out. Aah through the gates of the embassy into the unknown. And disappeared for that spot to fall. Yes, sir. Death, friends spend those 4 years in command rouge, labor camps, before escaping to thailand in 1979, where he was where united sydney shan bug and the 2 went to the us together or death. Crime died there in 2008. Sidney shomberg won the Pulitzer Prize for his cambodia coverage in 1976 and died in 2016. But they in their story, along with john swain and ill ra cough. Were immortalized in the 1984 oscar winning film, the killing fields. 2 weeks after pratt left, the journalist and the French Embassy were evacuated to tylen hotel look, gnome fell into disrepair and remain closed for several years. Jim lorry returned to cambodia in 1979. Look noma become the base for several International Relief agencies. And laurie took these rare pictures of the hotel, he still cold look, why are i happened to be among the 1st journalists to arrive in cambodia after the ve, the bees had expelled the canal rouge in january of 1979. I arrived in april of 979 and i stayed for the 1st time at the royal hotel in put our pen. It was a mess. The can here, rouge had taken anything of value out of the hotel. They even removed the mirrors. The water was not working, we had to go down to the Swimming Pool area to get water to bathe. The vietnamese military had taken over the hotel. They were using the Swimming Pool and they would stop the pool with fish. So we had fresh fish to eat in the evening at the hotel by this time. Ah, they decide to change the name of the hotel one more time. And they called it the summer key hotel which had come air meant solidarity between cambodia and vietnam. It was only in the 1990 s that the royal hotel was returned to its former splendor when it was totally renovated by a singapore, ian for. Ah, it took cambodia years to recover from the cruel legacy at the command ruge and over one and a half 1000000 people are buried in these killing field. And pen was gradually rebuilt. People return to live, the 993 o t l look no, was restored to the clips of its glory days and renamed look. The hotel suddenly deserves the title war hotel. It was, it w