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Christopher Howes cleared mines in Iraq before heading to Cambodia The jailing of four men in Cambodia for killing British charity worker Christopher Howes ends his family's 12-year quest for justice. A plaque in a Phnom Penh street is the only physical reminder of the senseless killing of a Briton who wanted only to make Cambodia a safer place. Christopher Howes had been clearing explosives for the charity, the Mines Advisory Group (MAG), in north-west Cambodia when he and his interpreter Houn Hourth were kidnapped and killed in 1996. The 37-year-old charity worker was shot in the back by members of the notorious Khmer Rouge and his body burned immediately denying him a decent burial. So it was with pride and comfort that his parents, Roy and Betty, were told a boulevard would be renamed Christopher Howes Street in their... [read full story]
