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PIRATES AND PERILS
2013
Overview
For pot smugglers like Mike Ritter, who regularly took loads out into the Gulf of Thailand, the greatest fear was being captured by the Khmer Rouge; it was certain death. “I’d look over there and I would just get cold shivers looking at it. My image of the country at that time was comparable to Tolkien’s Mordor, a black hole where all regard for life and civilized behavior broke down. I choked at the thought of dying slowly in a Cambodian prison.”
After their successful 1975 revolution, Cambodia’s Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge attempted to take the nation back to premodernity. The
