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Last days in Phnom Penh before the Khmer Rouge

“If US aid was cut back to the last dollar, 50 cents of it would still find its way into the generals’ pockets”
CAMBODIA
March, 1975
Note from PF in 2014: Philip Brooks wrote these anonymous dispatches for The Digger, with James Shuvus Williamson, while the two of them lived on the edge and sometimes on the run.
March 18 was the fifth anniversary of the coup that made General Lon Nol premier of Cambodia. Backed by the CIA and the American government Lon Nol declared war on the Khmer Rouge, a war that has been fought by conscripts with American weapons and ever-diminishing food and arms.  On March 15, a Digger correspondent flew into Phnom Penh for several days and returned the following impressions.

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