S3: Bonus: A Recount of My Interview With an Ex-Khmer Rouge Doctor
He trained as a doctor in the Khmer Rouge's main hospital during the civil war and worked as a surgeon in Phnom Penh under Democratic Kampuchea. Asked what went wrong, his answer was that nothing did,...
30 Sep 20251h 30min
S3: Interview: Cambodian and Vietnamese Civil War Correspondant Jim Laurie
In this bonus podcast episode, I’ve invited veteran journalist Jim Laurie to reflect on a lifetime spent amid global upheaval. From the Nixon incursion into Cambodia to the oblivious tranquility of Ph...
30 Aug 202548min
S3 Ep5: Chenla II: Lon Nol Strikes Out
In February 1971 Lon Nol suffered a stroke and was flown to Hawaii to recover. Many hoped he would not come back. He did, and by December the army under his command had suffered a defeat on Route 6 fr...
11 Aug 20251h 37min
S3: Interview: Explaining The 2025 Thai Cambodian Border Crisis with Sebastian Strangio
In this episode, I talk with journalist and author Sebastian Strangio about the border tensions between Cambodia and Thailand that have escalated in July 2025. Sebastian is the Southeast Asia editor a...
28 Jul 20251h 3min
S3: (Bonus) A Brief History of the Thai Cambodian Border Dispute
Hello everyone, I've put together a quick look at the long history of the Thai Cambodia border dispute to compliment what I'm sure many of you are reading and watching in newspapers and on television....
25 Jul 202531min
S3 Ep4: The Khmer Republic: The Lon Nol Line and Operation Chenla I
In late 1970 the Khmer Republic launched its first major offensive of the war, an attempt to reopen Route 6 and relieve the town of Kompong Thom. It was the first test of whether Lon Nol's army could ...
15 Jun 202559min
S3 Ep3: Pol Pot Rises
On April 3rd, 1970, a former maths teacher named Kaing Guek Eav walked out of prison in the general amnesty that followed the coup. He is better known as Duch. Within a year he would be running a jung...
13 Apr 20251h 28min
S3 Ep2: The Invasion (Part Two): Nixon's Cambodian Incursion
On April 30th, 1970, Richard Nixon went on television to announce that American and South Vietnamese troops were crossing into Cambodia. He called it an incursion, not an invasion, and promised it wou...
26 Jan 20251h 45min
