Jean-Jacques Cazaux, the AFP correspondent in Phnom Penh, was privileged to witness first-hand the tumultuous last hours of the doomed Cambodian government under Prime Minister Long Boret as it vainly sought to negotiate a peaceful end to the war. He sat in on the government’s last meetings as the army disintegrated and the city shuddered under bombardment. These are his final dispatches of the war and the ruined country he left behind.