Tagged: Khmer Rouge

30 May

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SIFF pick resurrects Cambodia’s forgotten film industry

by · May 30, 2012 · 1 Comment

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Inside the gutted remains of a 1000-seat movie theater that now is home to hundreds of squatters, an old woman sits with a baby in her lap and retells the plot of a Cambodian movie she loved as a child. The movie she speaks of probably no longer exists, destroyed under the reign of the Khmer [...]

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26 Mar

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UW Professor seeds social change in Cambodia

by · March 26, 2012 · 3 Comments

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Cambodia still suffers from the horrific Khmer Rouge rule of the late Seventies. The entire population was forced into the countryside, and the educated, professionals, and minorities were targeted for execution. Thousands more died from starvation and illness. Nearly two million people, a quarter of the country’s population, died in that time. When the Vietnamese [...]

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