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Cambodia.

Captured Vietcong. Prisoners of war were afforded very different treatment by each side. Americans were treated reasonably (the ranting of the MIA movement in America aside), whereas captured Vietcong were tortured, raped and killed. Some ended up in the tigerDcages of the U.S. administered Con Son prision where the conditions would have staggered a Spanish Inquisitor.

"I'm a journalist who produces stories. I'm a storyteller in the sense that I present the truth in an engaging way, rather like the way a lawyer would present evidence to a jury." Philip Jones Griffiths