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The following text is an account of a journey to the grave of Pol Pot near Anlong Veng, Cambodia in 2002. It is part of my non fiction book Beyond the Pancake Trench - Road Tales from the Wild East, published by Orchid Books in 2005, which made Book of the Week in the South [...]
In 2004, writer Tom Vater and photographer Steve Sandford visited the war stricken kingdom of Nepal and met a Maoist cell high up in the Annapurna’s for four days of talks. Two years on and Nepal’s belligerent king has shut down democracy alltogether and driven communist rebels and pro-democracy advocates into the same corner, while [...]