Select Private Correspondence from the Files of a Foreign Correspondent: By Nate Thayer I have been doing some tinkering and final revisions and editing of my upcoming book Sympathy for the Devil: A Journalist’s memoir from Inside Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge and have been distracted as I sort out old papers, correspondence, raw notes, and files, many which have […]
How Ted Koppel and ABC TV Tried to Steal my Life Work
How Ted Koppel and ABC TV Tried to Steal my Life Work By Nate Thayer December 8, 2013 I am banned by legal agreement to write the following: ABC Television/ Disney Corporation, after seven years in court, where they attempted to bankrupt me and ruin my reputation for objecting to them stealing fifteen years of […]
“Who is that singer? Johnny Jackson? Like he says, ‘We are the World!’ We are with the West! Let’s join together!” said a Khmer Rouge cadre
“Who is that singer? Johnny Jackson? Like he says, ‘We are the World!’ We are with you, the West! Let’s join together!” said the Khmer Rouge leader After threatening to assassinate American civilians, the Khmer Rouge leader told me “Why don’t we join hands in national reconciliation. Join together! We are with you, the […]
An Invitation to the Khmer Rouge Controlled Jungles: A travel Itinerary to the World’s Most Clandestine Guerrilla Army
An Invitation to the Khmer Rouge Controlled Jungles: A travel Itinerary to the World’s Most Clandestine Guerrilla Army Excerpts from “Sympathy For the Devil: A Journalists memoir From Inside Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge An unpublished manuscript (Excerpt from Sympathy for the Devil: A Journalist’s Memoir form Inside Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge. Copyright Nate Thayer. All Rights reserved. […]
Lunching With Mass Murderers: Khmer Rouge leaders explain why they slaughtered their own people, and why it was, really, for the best: Excerpts from “Sympathy for the Devil” By Nate Thayer
Lunching With Mass Murderers: Top Khmer Rouge leaders explain, in their own words, why they killed 1.8 million people, why it was not their fault, and really for the best. Excerpts from unpublished manuscript “Sympathy for the Devil: A journalist’s memoir from inside Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge” By Nate Thayer (Copyright Nate Thayer. All rights reserved. […]
The Night Pol Pot Died: Excerpts from unpublished manuscript “SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL: A JOURNALIST’S MEMOIR INSIDE POL POT’S KHMER ROUGE” By Nate Thayer
The Night Pol Pot Died: From the Jungles of Northern Cambodia By Nate Thayer EXCERPTS FROM SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL: A JOURNALIST’S MEMOIR FROM INSIDE POL POT’S KHMER ROUGE (Copyright Nate Thayer. All rights reserved. No publication or transmission in whole or part allowed without express written permission of the author. Excerpts from the unpublished […]
Why I am a Journalist: Continued….From a Daughter in Exile From her Own History
Why I am a Journalist: Continued… From a Daughter in Exile From her Own History Dear Mr. Thayer, I truly enjoy your many articles and writing that you have posted on your website. Growing up in the States and being around the Khmer community, I constantly remember old folks and even my grandfather blaming the […]
Thoughts on the Death of Mass Murderer Ieng Sary:Cambodian Political Culture and North Korea
Thoughts on the Death of Mass Murderer Ieng Sary: The Khmer Rouge and North Korea It is the Cambodian Political Culture which Should be Indicted By Nate Thayer (c)Nate Thayer. All rights reserved. No republication in whole or part without express written permission from the author Pol Pot’s brother in law, Khmer Rouge foreign minister […]
My Friend, Arthur: the World’s Biggest Dope Trafficker
Herb Trader: A Tale of Treachery and Espionage in the Global Marijuana Trade A Book Review, Sort of….. Excerpts from Sympathy for the Devil:A Journalist’s Memoir from Inside Pol Pot’s Cambodia. (To support the publication of Sympathy for the Devil, and to read other excerpts, see the right hand column of this website) (Copyright Nate Thayer. […]
Lunching with Mass Murderers: The Khmer Rouge Were Not Communists; They were Cambodians
Lunching with Mass Murderers: The Khmer Rouge Were Not Communists; They were Cambodians Excerpts from unpublished manuscript of “Sympathy for the Devil: A journalist’s memoir from inside Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge” Khmer Rouge ideology and details of who they murdered–and why. From exclusive, previously unpublished interviews with the top Khmer Rouge leaders Nuon Chea, Ta […]
Cambodian Border Massacre: American Crosses the Line to Save Lives
SOF Frontline Report Cambodian Border Massacre American Crosses the Line to Save Lives Text and Photos by George Jones (aka Nate Thayer) Soldier of Fortune magazine October 1989 (Back to Bangkok: A few months ago, George Jones was a desk jockey in an eastern state bureaucracy with prospects of steady work, good pay, and engaged […]
Dying Breath: The inside story of Pol Pot's last days and the disintegration of the movement he created
Dying Breath The inside story of Pol Pot’s last days and the disintegration of the movement he created The Far Eastern Economic Review April 30, 1998 By Nate Thayer in Preah Vihear province As Pol Pot’s body lies bloating 100 metres away in a spartan shack, exhausted Khmer Rouge leaders gather in a […]
