When everything collapses in a country at war, the reporters rush to see, testify, tell. Where do they stay in these extreme situations? Placed at the heart of the convulsions of history, hotels have thus entered into the legend of the conflicts with those who lived there or chronicled them. From kyiv to Sarajevo via Beirut, Phnom Penh, Abidjan and Madrid, Le Figaro revisits these improbable refuges balanced on the front lines.
Correspondent in Asia
"
The best thing about communists is the liver
," exclaims General Oung Krom, cutting up the stomach of a Khmer Rouge with a knife, under the eyes of Malko, an improbable spy of the CIA.
A few hours later, the hero of
Cambodian Roulette
is lounging by the swimming pool of the Phnom, "
diplodocus of the hotel industry, a survivor of colonial architecture, with its cathedral ceilings, its huge rooms and its innumerable boys languid in the corridors
”, writes Gérard de Villiers…
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