Attacks on Khmer Rouge were backpacker's death warrant, says former diplomat

By Lindsay Murdoch
Updated November 10 2012 - 1:38am, first published November 6 2011 - 2:15pm

A former diplomat says the failure of the Australian government to halt Cambodian military attacks on a Khmer Rouge base effectively ''issued death warrants'' for kidnapped Australian backpacker David Wilson and his two travelling companions in 1994.

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