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Saturday, January 18, 2014

Under arrest by the Khmer Rouge -- Memories of Nate Thayer

Clueless photojournalists (l-r) @[100000997074612:2048:Nate Thayer], @[649898802:2048:Bill Burke], Paul Miller under arrest by the Khmer Rouge. Trat province/ Koh Kong Thai Cambodian border. We had just walked into the most highly secret Khmer Rouge HQ and were interrogated, held at gunpoint for hours, and transported on a farm cart attached to a crude tractor at night through Khmer Rouge jungles south and turned over to Thai military intelligence operatives known as 838. Why we were not killed remains unclear. Nobody ever had entered that area and emerged alive. We looked like we were having fun. And we were....(Photo and print Bill Burke)
 
Clueless photojournalists (l-r) Nate Thayer, Bill Burke, Paul Miller under arrest by the Khmer Rouge. Trat province/ Koh Kong Thai Cambodian border. We had just walked into the most highly secret Khmer Rouge HQ and were interrogated, held at gunpoint for hours, and transported on a farm cart attached to a crude tractor at night through Khmer Rouge jungles south and turned over to Thai military intelligence operatives known as 838. Why we were not killed remains unclear. Nobody ever had entered that area and emerged alive. We looked like we were having fun. And we were....(Photo and print Bill Burke)

- Seen and heard on Nate Thayer's Facebook


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