So what do you want people to do? Are you expecting them to praise him? Personal accomplishment doesn't make people admire.
On Jan 24, 3:47 am, Chon Chumleas <[email protected]> wrote: > From the horse's mouth: > > Enemies of the People > > 01/23/10 > By Dan Nailen > Salt Lake Magazine (Utah, USA) > > Thet Sambath is a Cambodian newspaper journalist whose father was > murdered by the Khmer Rouge in 1974, and whose mother was forced to > marry a Khmer Rouge militiaman two years later. > > For a decade, Sambath spent his free time journeying into the > notorious "killing fields" of his home country to try and understand > why so many of Cambodia's people were murdered. The result of that > work is Enemies of the People, which Sambeth co-directed and produced > with Rob Lemkin. > > The film revolves around the relationship Sambath established with > Nuon Chea, aka "Brother Number Two" (pictured below with Sambeth) and > dictator Pol Pot's right-hand man. It took Sambeth years of gaining > Chea's trust before he opened up and admitted that he and Pol Pot had > plotted the killings as a means of defending their communist vision > from "enemies of the people." Chea doesn't ever express remorse for > the program he calls the "solution," but he does to Sambeth directly > when the reporter tells the old man about his own family's > relationship with the Khmer Rouge. > > Sambath also tracks down several of the Khmer Rouge's foot soldiers, > mostly peasants and farmers who were simply "following orders" when > they slit the throats of their neighbors and buried them in mass > graves. It's chilling to watch one of the men graphically illustrate > how he would kill his victims, and it's intriguing to see how each of > these murderers deals with what they've done all these years later. > > Enemies of the People could prove to be an important historical > document for decades to come. Sambeth kept his recorded conversations > with Nuon Chea under lock and key for years, in fear they'd be > confiscated and used as evidence in a trial. Indeed, the film ends > with Nuon Chea's arrest by a joint force of the United Nations and > Cambodia. He's charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes, as > well as genocide, and his trial is slated, for now, for 2011. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org" group. This is an unmoderated forum. Please refrain from using foul language. Thank you for your understanding. Peace among us and in Cambodia. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/camdisc Learn more - http://www.cambodia.org
