EDITOR’S NOTE: Click here to see an updated version of this story published by VICE in April 2015. NEW YORK — Kandaal Pheach, sitting cross-legged, is quietly basking in the gentle glow of… Continue reading
This is the first of a four-story series on Sleepless in Singapore exploring Cambodian culture in North America & more specifically, the New York City borough of the Bronx. Welcome to “Cambodians in… Continue reading
Chum Mey, a frail, white-haired Cambodian man in a pinstriped shirt stands beneath the shade of an oak tree at the gates of Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, a Khmer Rouge prison camp in… Continue reading
My Cambodian guide Run Phyros tells me about how the Khmer Rouge exterminated his entire family as we leave the Killing Fields. Nearly every middle-aged Cambodian I’ve talked to has felt the wrath… Continue reading
Thousands of craniums stare back at me with cold, petrified expressions. Spider webs dangle in eye hollow sockets. Thousands of skulls — piled as a high as a small apartment building — loom… Continue reading
