Remains could be war photo journalist
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March 30, 2010, Tuesday
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FORENSIC tests will be conducted on what two searchers believe are the remains of photographer Sean Flynn, son of Hollywood star Errol Flynn, who disappeared during the Cambodian War 40 years ago, the United States Embassy said yesterday.
At least 37 journalists were killed or are listed as missing from the 1970-75 war, which pitted the US-backed Lon Nol government against the North Vietnamese-supported Khmer Rouge.
A number of journalists were known to have been captured by the Khmer Rouge and probably executed.
US Embassy spokesman John Johnson said Australian David MacMillan and Briton Keith Rotheram handed over the remains on Friday, and they were sent to the Hawaii-based Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command.
"Obviously, there is nothing conclusive and tests need to be conducted," Johnson said. "Each case is different so it is difficult to speculate on how long the analysis may take."
The search for Sean Flynn and a close friend, Dana Stone, began not long after their disappearance in the province of Kampong Cham in 1970, notably by a colleague and Vietnam War-era photographer Tim Page.
Freelance "bone hunters" have also taken up the search for both missing journalists and US servicemen listed as missing in Indochina. Some proved to be swindlers who demanded money from grieving families of the missing.
Page, who urged the duo to turn over the remains to US authorities, also expressed concern over how MacMillan and Rotheram allegedly conducted their search.
At least 37 journalists were killed or are listed as missing from the 1970-75 war, which pitted the US-backed Lon Nol government against the North Vietnamese-supported Khmer Rouge.
A number of journalists were known to have been captured by the Khmer Rouge and probably executed.
US Embassy spokesman John Johnson said Australian David MacMillan and Briton Keith Rotheram handed over the remains on Friday, and they were sent to the Hawaii-based Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command.
"Obviously, there is nothing conclusive and tests need to be conducted," Johnson said. "Each case is different so it is difficult to speculate on how long the analysis may take."
The search for Sean Flynn and a close friend, Dana Stone, began not long after their disappearance in the province of Kampong Cham in 1970, notably by a colleague and Vietnam War-era photographer Tim Page.
Freelance "bone hunters" have also taken up the search for both missing journalists and US servicemen listed as missing in Indochina. Some proved to be swindlers who demanded money from grieving families of the missing.
Page, who urged the duo to turn over the remains to US authorities, also expressed concern over how MacMillan and Rotheram allegedly conducted their search.
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