Mekong cruise: Navigating a Passage Through History Old and New
Fifty years ago, in April 1975, the Vietnam war officially ended and the last Americans departed the country. Their departure exposed a regional power vacuum and in Cambodia the entire population was relocated to the countryside to work on farms, in a brutal and systematic suppression designed to make everyone “equal”. The crackdown quickly became a genocide. A journey along the Mekong River aboard AmaDara, from Siem Reap to Ho Chi Minh City, comes complete with reminders of the past both distant and recent.