Comming soon from Malcolm Scott:

  

For more information copy and paste following link

https://www.facebook.com/malcolmscottwriter/photos

 

 

 

Visit: Malcolm Scott Books on Facebook for more information.

No Negotiation No Ransom is the true story of the three Western backpackers who were kidnapped and held hostage by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in 1994. The young men were ransomed to their respective governments but ultimately their fate rested in the hands of two ruthless and opposing factions who were seeking control of the country.

Cambodia is slowly recovering from a recent civil war and the genocide of over half its population. But the country is still controlled by the Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge resistance fighters still operate within its border regions. Despite the recent dark history and the current unstable environment, young backpackers flock to the country lured by adventure, inexpensive travel and the abundance of cheap marijuana. 

Australian backpacker David Wilson (29) is a Melbourne based social worker who coaches an underprivileged boys’ soccer team in his spare time. English factory worker Mark Slater (28) is on his first overseas holiday and French world traveler Jean Michel Braquet (27) has just returned from trekking the Himalayas.

The three young backpackers are traveling to the Cambodian beach town Sihanoukville. To get to the holiday resort their train must cross the Khmer Rouge controlled Kampong Province. They have been warned that it is a dangerous route to travel, but they have not heeded the warnings. 

For more information copy and paste following link

https://www.facebook.com/malcolmscottwriter/photos

The backpackers train is attacked by a Khmer Rouge raiding party. They are taken hostage and then marched for six days to a mountain hideout and Khmer Rouge stronghold, Phnom Vour (Vine Mountain). The young men survive the march only to be beaten, starved and forced to work for over two months while ransom negotiations take place. 

The ransom amount is agreed upon and a percentage is paid, but the backpackers are subsequently put to death in a field and then buried in shallow graves. Englishman Mark Slater and French National Jean Michel Braquet receive bullet wounds to the head, while Australian hostage David Wilson is hacked to death by a machete.

The parents of David Wilson, Mark Slater and Jean Michel Braquet seek justice for the kidnap and murder of their sons. They do so for the next twenty years and they live to see all the major players in the tragedy, except Pol Pot, jailed for life.

The case is then taken through the Australian court system and in June 2012 after a 13-year Colonial Inquest it is ruled that the Australian Government did all it could to secure the release of Australian backpacker David Wilson.

 Visit: Malcolm Scott Books on Facebook  or Bali Raw on Facebook for more information.