July 1997
In the days of internal turmoil within the Khmer Rouge, two weeks before the bloody 1997 coup that unraveled for good the 2 billion dollars Paris peace Agreement and UN effort, and one month before I found and photographed Pol Pot in the jungles--his first sighting 20 years. This interview was done in Washington DC on the day before I leftt for Cambodia to cover the rising tension in the government, the bloody purge inside the Khmer Rouge leadership, followed by the coup detat and a new civil war breaking out between the two Cambodian ruling factions and a civil war between factions of the Khmer Rouge, culminating in the jungle trial of Pol Pot on 25 July. All within a month--a very complicated, busy, violent, and fundamentally altering month in Cambodian history.