Day: 6 March 2019

Honour for diplomat who paved Cambodia’s road to peace

left-right Peter Freeman, Steve Noah, Ambassador Kenneth Quinn, Sokphal Din Cambodian genocide survivor, Lord David Alton, Sir Trevor Pears and Dr James Smith at the House of Lords as Ambassador Quinn receives the Steven Krulis Champion of Humanity Distinguished Service Award from the Aegis Trust in recognition of his work in countering the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.

Twenty years ago today, on March 6th 1999, Ta Mok – the last commander of the genocidal Khmer Rouge in Cambodia – surrendered. It marked the culmination of a strategy developed by then US Ambassador Kenneth Quinn to eradicate the guerrilla movement, which he had compared to the Nazis in early warnings sent to Washington […]