About the Press; Newspaper and Official Reports
Cambodia Silenced: The Press Under Six Regimes by Call Number: Z658.C16 M43w 1997Publication Date: 1997 (Bangkok : White Lotus Press,)(Temporarily unavailable. Has been re-ordered) History of the Khmer press since 1930. Censored, sometimes totally shut down,with journalists (including foreign correspondents) killed, imprisoned, or forced out of the country --Mehta's comprehensive study details the government's relation with the press from French colonialism through Sihanouk, the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot, to the 1990's. Appendices include various press laws from 1970's Lon Nol regime to 1995 press act. and 1997 implementation details.
- "History: A Troubled Media"pp. 16-20, from a Cambodian Cambodian Center for Independent Media report, "Enhancing Independent Media in Cambodia: An Ethics Perspective," 2009. Overview of the press from 1920-1953, Colonialism Fosters the Arts & Literature, to 1992-1998, UNTAC Loosens the Media Grip.
- Foreign Broadcast Information Service daily reportsIn the tab for Publication Series Title, choose "Daily Report; Asia & Pacific 1974-1987." In the Countries & Political Entities tab, choose Cambodia on the world map. In the search box, use "Khmer Rouge." Entries are listed chronologically. (FBIS was "created by the U.S. intelligence community...to offer foreign views and perspectives on historical events from thousands of monitored broadcasts and publications..")
- Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room"Here you can view documents released through the FOIA and other CIA release programs." Try keyword searches such as Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot [or other Khmer Rouge leaders], or Tuol Sleng.
- AFP: Refugees Say Khmer Rouge Executions Have BegunParis AFP, 26 April 1975 report [via FBIS online] Refugees from border villages near Thailand describe how the "Red Khmers" are evacuating and fortifying the villages along the border and executing wealthy merchants, Buddhist monks and Muslims.
- Khmer Rouge Begins Attack on Phnom Penh's Southern SuburbsAFP Hong Kong, 15 April 1975, report [via FBIS online].
- Cambodia Refugees Dare Not Tell Their StoryThe Sunday Times, London, May 4, 1975. Front-page article. Description of refugees' escape from Phnom Penh after Khmer Rouge takeover, hiding in the French Embassy, trekking to Thai border. NYT reporter Sydney Schanberg said journalists agreed not to report anything until all refugees from embassy were safe. The print color Sunday Times Magazine (p.73-131 ) has cover story and photos on "the death agony of Phnom Penh," but b&w digital reproduction online is not very good.
- ‘We Only Killed the Bad People’: 2 Khmer Rouge Leaders, Forever Linked(use gale OneFile; select year and issue).
Article in Nov.19, 2018 International New York Times about the tribunal verdict of "defiant" Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, who denied his role and called the evidence "fake history,"
The Killing Fields: the Facts Behind the Film by Call Number: DS554.8 .K48 +Publication Date: 1984 (London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson)Dispatches by NY Times journalist Schanberg, beginning with the 1973 accidental bombing by the U.S. of Neak Luong, are reprinted in this book about the background and filming of "The Killing Fields." Color photos of the film set's recreation of events contrast with b&w photos of actual events. In addition to the news dispatches, Schanberg, along with translator Dith Pran, recount their experiences in 1973-1979, including the Khmer Rouge take-over of Phnom Penh. Included in the book is a chronology of events and specific information on Sihanouk, the Nixon Doctrine, Lon Nol, and the rise of the Khmer Rouge.- Asian Holocaust: Coverage of the Khmer Rouge by Three U.S. News Organizations, 1974-1979 by " chronicles and evaluates coverage by CBS News, Time, and the New York Times of the Khmer Rouge and the genocide that it left in its wake. The coverage, from 1974-1979, was examined for reported facts, sources, the interpretation of these sources by the reporters, the timing of a story's appearance in print or over the air, and the relative length of reports."Publication Date: 1988 (Library has microfilm, Asia film10868; has ordered print copy)
Newspapers in early Khmer Rouge period
The titles listed here are a small sample of the Cambodian newspapers the library has that cover various periods of time up through 1979. In 1975 the Khmer Rouge began shutting down all newspapers, destroying printing presses and executing journalists.
- Prayojan Khmaer (Prayoch Khmer)Call Number: Ais microfilm 8780Publication Date: Phnom PenhLibrary has June 1971 - January 31, 1975. Director of newspaper was Saloth Sar's (Pol Pot) brother Chhay.
- Sangkroh Khmaer (Song Kruah Kmae)Call Number: Asia microfilm 11851Publication Date: Phnom Penh"Save the Khmers." Library has October 1972 - January 1975.
- Koaḥ SantibhābCall Number: Asia microfilm 8785Publication Date: Phnom PenhLibrary has 1971-January 1975.
- Bulletin Quotidien d'InformationCall Number: Asia Film 2247Publication Date: Phnom Penh (République Khmère, Agence Khmère de Presse)Library has May 1962- January 1975
- News bulletin (Dībhnâkṅār Sārabatramān Kambujā Prajādhipteyy)Call Number: DS554.8 .N493 ++ (Library Annex)Publication Date: [Phnom Penh] : Democratic Kampuchea Press-AgencyLibrary has Nov. 30-Dec. 13,15-19, 1978. (no.1-14, 16-20)
- Democratic Kampuchea news bulletinCall Number: DS554.842 .D46 ++ (in Kroch Asia stacks)Publication Date: Peking : Embassy of Democratic Kampuchea,(In English and French). Library has 1979, various issues from April 6 (no.20) to Dec. 31 (no.108); Jan.5, 1980.
- Nouvelles du Kampuchea démocratiqueCall Number: DS554 .N93 (in Library Annex)Publication Date: Gentilly, France, Comité des patriotes du Kampuchea démocratique en France.Library has issues from June & July 1976; March-April , June 22, Oct., Dec. 1977; Feb. 22, June-July 1978; July 1979.
- Kambujā; dassanāvaṭṭī rūpbhābCall Number: Film 12931 (in Library Annex)Publication Date: [Bhnaṃ Bẽn : s.n.], 1976-Library has vol.1, no.1-12, Jan.-Dec., 1976; vol. 3,no. 1-6, Jan -June.
- Le RepublicainCall Number: film 454Publication Date: Phnon PenhLibrary has 1946-1956; 1968-1975:Apr.7