Sean FlynnRobert Carmichael, Cambodia
ABC Radio Australia
The American embassy in Phnom Penh says human remains uncovered in Cambodia last month are unlikely to be those of missing war photographer Sean Flynn.
The statement conflicts with claims by people who dug up the remains.
On Thursday last week, 27 journalists and photographers who covered the Cambodian war of the early 1970s gathered in Phnom Penh for their first reunion since the Khmer Rouge took over the country in 1975.
Among their reasons for returning was to hold a ceremony marking the deaths of 37 of their colleagues between 1970 and 1975.
Perhaps the best-known of those who disappeared was Flynn, a US war photographer, and son of Australian-born Hollywood star Errol Flynn.
Sean Flynn disappeared 40 years ago this month, along with US colleague Dana Stone.
It is thought they were captured and eventually killed by the Khmer Rouge.
Last month two amateur bone-hunters made world headlines when they claimed they had found Flynn's remains.
But the US embassy in Phnom Penh scotched that claim on Monday.
Embassy spokesman John Johnson said the US government's missing-in-action (MIA) team has tested human remains handed over by the two men and found they are not of Caucasian origin.
The announcement came as the group of reunited journalists headed to Vietnam for the 35th anniversary of the fall of Saigon.
The statement conflicts with claims by people who dug up the remains.
On Thursday last week, 27 journalists and photographers who covered the Cambodian war of the early 1970s gathered in Phnom Penh for their first reunion since the Khmer Rouge took over the country in 1975.
Among their reasons for returning was to hold a ceremony marking the deaths of 37 of their colleagues between 1970 and 1975.
Perhaps the best-known of those who disappeared was Flynn, a US war photographer, and son of Australian-born Hollywood star Errol Flynn.
Sean Flynn disappeared 40 years ago this month, along with US colleague Dana Stone.
It is thought they were captured and eventually killed by the Khmer Rouge.
Last month two amateur bone-hunters made world headlines when they claimed they had found Flynn's remains.
But the US embassy in Phnom Penh scotched that claim on Monday.
Embassy spokesman John Johnson said the US government's missing-in-action (MIA) team has tested human remains handed over by the two men and found they are not of Caucasian origin.
The announcement came as the group of reunited journalists headed to Vietnam for the 35th anniversary of the fall of Saigon.
2 comments:
Khmer gov't needs to follow the Aust, Singa and NZ way of life. No more "USA, China, USSR or other supper power nation way of life", Why? because these supper power nations have blood in their hands for thousand of years. They never want what is best for us but rather the opposite side of it. Khmer gov't needs to learn from past mistakes, like we have been betrayed by these supper power nations before and as a result, no one is to be trusted, why? because they are the outsiders. Therefore please try to invite every other nation to join us and help us build our new nation and country, especially with all the decent people not with those who like to take advantage of out downfall. Please try to adopt the Aust, singa, NZ and Japan ideologies and their policies as a way to go, if khmer wants to have peace, look no further than this. Also please try to love our people as much as they have loved their own people, like millions of our innocent khmer people gotten killed and no one is yet responsible of these crimes against humanity but when one of their own is missing they are try to find out who killed him? this is to show that they are far more superior than us or we are no comparison to them. Therefore it is ok that we died like worst than animals but not them. This is where the missing link is, that we then to forget that we all live under the same planet earth and share the same environment such as the five elements, e.g earth, fire water...to sum it up "we are human being that have equal value" and that we all share the same faith. Wisdom
It's just a fucking Viet's ploy to make them look good using Cambodia as their guinea pig!
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