Today, Con Dao prison in southern Vietnam is a museum dedicated to the Vietnamese who fought for independence from the French. But Cambodian nationalists were also locked up in that brutal space, and their story has been largely overlooked over the years.

Author Archives: Rinith Taing
Rinith Taing is a Cambodian journalist and Khmer-English translator/interpreter. Beginning his career at the Phnom Penh Post, he has more than three years of experience reporting on various issues in Cambodia and other Southeast Asian country. His specialty, however, is feature story, particularly historical and profile features. In 2017, one of Rinith’s stories at the Post “If It Leads, It Bleed” was nominated for SOPA / WAN-IFRA Excellence in Feature Writing.