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'''John Dawson Dewhirst''' (born [[United Kingdom]] 1952 died [[Cambodia]] 1978) was a [[Briton|British]] [[teacher]] and amateur [[Yacht|yachtsman]] who was one of several western victims of the [[Khmer Rouge]] during the genocidal rule of [[Pol Pot]]. |
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Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, as you did to [[:Deputy Prime Minister of India]], you will be [[Wikipedia:Blocking policy|blocked]] from editing Wikipedia. <!-- Template:Test3-n (Third level warning) --> A link to the edit I have reverted can be found here: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deputy_Prime_Minister_of_India&diff=next&oldid=80604971 link]. If you believe this edit should not have been reverted, please contact me. <!-- 293--> [[User:Whispering|Whispering]]<sup>([[User talk:Whispering|talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Whispering|c]])</sup> 14:06, 10 October 2006 (UTC) |
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Dewhirst was born in the Jesmond district of [[Newcastle Upon Tyne]] in 1952 and trained as a teacher before moving to [[Japan]] to teach English in 1977. In August 1978 Dewhirst was apparently holidaying off the [[Thai]] coast with his friends, [[New Zealand|New Zealander]] [[Kerry Hamil]] and [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Stuart Glass]]. Their yacht, the Foxy Lady drifted south towards [[Cambodia|Cambodian]] waters and was not heard from again. It was believed all three men had either died at the hands of Thai pirates or been drowned in a storm. Two Americans named [[James Clark]] and [[Lance McNamara]] had vanished in similar circumstances that April. Before the end of 1978, two [[Australia|Australians]] and two more [[United States|Americans]] had also gone missing. |
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In early 1979, the [[Vietnam|Vietnamese]] Army invaded Cambodia and overthrew the Pol Pot regime. They liberated the [[Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum|S-21]] prison in the capital [[Phnom Penh]] where over 16,000 Cambodians were tortured to death on suspicion of spying against Cambodia. Photographs of the missing yachtsmen were found in the prison files along with the 'confessions' that everyone who entered S-21 was forced to write. It seems that Dewhirst and his friends had been arrested at sea by [[Khmer Rouge]] patrol boats. Stuart Glass was shot and killed during the capture of The Foxy Lady. Hamil and Dewhirst were both brought ashore and then taken by truck to the then deserted [[Phnom Penh]]. After being savagely tortured over several weeks, Dewhirst wrote a long confession that mixed true events in his life with wholly false accounts of his career as a [[CIA]] agent planning to subvert the Khmer Rouge regime. He claimed that his father (also an agent) had been paid a large bribe for inducting his son into the CIA and that his college course in Loughborough was interspersed with training as a spy. All prisoners at S-21 wrote similar confessions which were extracted by repeated and severe torture. Dewhirst was possibly taken to [[Choeung Ek]] after about a month in S-21 where prisoners were executed and dumped in pits. The former administrator of the prison, [[Brother Duch]] was located by a western journalist in 1999 and now faces trial along with other former Khmer Rouge leaders. He said that he remembered Dewhirst as "very polite" and that the bodies of foreign prisoners were burned in tyres. It is rumoured that the American prisoners may have been smuggling Thai marijuana when they were captured, but there is no evidence Dewhirst and his friends were involved in this. Dewhirst was one of two Britons to die in Pol Pot's Cambodia, the other being an academic who was assassinated during a visit to Phnom Penh in December 1978. |
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==External Links== |
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*[http://andybrouwer.co.uk/dewhirst.html S-21 victim - John Dewhirst] - Featuring articles about Dewhirst from British newspapers ''The Times'' and ''The Northern Echo'' |
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[[Category:1952 births|Dewhirst]] |
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[[Category:1978 deaths|Dewhirst]] |
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[[Category:English murder victims|Dewhirst]] |
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Revision as of 14:06, 10 October 2006
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- Please do not add nonsense to Wikipedia; it is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you. Yandman 13:59, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, as you did to Deputy Prime Minister of India, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. A link to the edit I have reverted can be found here: link. If you believe this edit should not have been reverted, please contact me. Whispering(talk/c) 14:06, 10 October 2006 (UTC)