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Chamreun
Once he had taken the call from Dave, Chamreun sat in silence staring at his desk. He had truly hoped that Dave had been mistaken when he had first come to him for help. But now there was hard evidence on the table and a countdown till the next victim died. Would his country ever be free of such evil? It seemed every time his nation turned a corner there was another challenge awaiting them. They’d moved forward from the years of turmoil and strife of the war and Khmer Rouge rule, though many took delight in bringing up past records for political gain, or indeed vilifying the Vietnamese as still being invaders.
How quickly they forgot that without Vietnamese help and involvement, the policies of Pol Pot would have consigned many more Cambodians to unmarked graves in the dusty
