New Zealander Kerry Hamill sailed off on an adventure from Darwin in the 1970s but never returned. Now his family will retrace his journey to Cambodia.
Kerry Hamill was a great letter-writer, so his family knew something was wrong when his carefully penned correspondence stopped in 1978.
Two other men on board the yacht also died. Canadian Stuart Glass was shot, and British teacher John Dewhirst was taken with Kerry.They travelled to Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand and had dropped Kerry's girlfriend off in Singapore."They took shelter behind an island called Koh Tang about 50 kilometres offshore, and on the other side of the island was a Khmer Rouge naval gun base," Rob said.Rob Hamill was a teenager when his older brother Kerry went missing.
Several rooms at the Tuol Sleng genocide museum, formerly S-21, are dedicated to photos of the victims."So it would be good to have a proper talk about it with dad, I know it's going to be definitely sad."
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