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Cambodian Filmmaker Finds Truth Beneath the Killing Fields
In making the film, Sambath gained the trust of former Khmer Rouge officials at all levels, working his way up to Nuon Chea...
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Deep into a bloody history, 18 April 2014
With support from Scholars at Risk, journalist probes Cambodia’s killing fields.
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Thet Sambath 2011 Knight International Journalism Award
As a child, Thet Sambath lost his parents and his brother to the brutal regime of Pol Pot.
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Saturday Profile by Seth Mydans, 7 August 2010
For seven long years, Thet Sambath lived in a world of secrets as he courted and won the trust of the former Khmer Rouge leader he holds responsible for the deaths of his parents.
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An Unblinking Look at Cambodia’s Past by Patrick Barta, 11 March 2011
It may be one of the most important films about Cambodia ever made.
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Column One: Confronting Sadism by Joe, 15 December 2010
He spent much of his life consumed by what the three men on the screen before him had done.
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The Khmer Rouge, Close-Up by Brendan Brady, 6 August 2010
After three years of paying social visits, Cambodian journalist Thet Sambath finally gets what he wants from his secretive companion: a sign that the old man will discuss his past as second-in-command of the Khmer Rouge.
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Filmmaker tracks Khmer Rouge killers to learn the truth by Miranda Leitsinger, 24 July 2010
"I come back here to where I killed people. And I feel terrible. My mind, my soul, my body is spinning inside. All the things I did are flashing through my mind."
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Brother Number Two's censored revelations by Jared Ferrie, 6 August 2010
As an award-winning documentary about the Khmer Rouge makes its way across the United States, most Cambodians have been denied the chance to hear revelations made in a series of rare interviews with the genocidal regime's former chief ideologue.
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Khmer Rouge film spurs Cambodians worldwide to revisit buried history by Stephen Kurczy, 19 November 2010
The Cambodian pond once bubbled as the bodies buried under the muck slowly decomposed, recalls an elderly Cambodian woman in the new documentary “Enemies of the People."
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Perpetrator’s Pespective by Thet Sambath, 12 December 2010
At the age of eight I was orphaned. In Cambodia at that time there were many thousands of children like me, for this was the age of the Khmer Rouge regime and its Killing Fields.
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The Khmer Rouge took my family but justice should not be vindictive by Thet Sambath, 27 July 2010
My country has been waiting more than 30 years for an international court to deliver judgment on the Khmer Rouge
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The Truth About the Khmer Rouge is too big for one court case by Thet Sambath, 27 June 2011
It was nearly dark when I got to his small wooden house on the Thai-Cambodian border. He greeted me with a weary smile. We both knew it would be the last time we would sit and eat a meal together.
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Revisiting the Reign of Terror by Kong Rithdee, 4 May 2011
To make a movie about Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge is to hear the cries from the graveyards.
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KEEPING ENEMIES CLOSER by Wise Kwai, 21 May 2011
In the Pantheon of movies about the Khmer Rouge era.
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From Cambodia's Killing Fields to New York, a new film confronts Khmer Rouge by Jared Ferrie, 30 July 2010
Film-makers and Cambodia by Duncan McCargo, 30 July 2010
Former Khmer Rouge talk about massacres in new doc by Robin McDowell, 3 August 2010
Another look at killing fields By Reg Little, 25 March 2010
Khmer Rouge killing machine explored at Sundance By Romain Raynaldy (AFP), 27 January 2010
Killing Fields refugees see their attackers by Greg Mellen, 18 Oct 2010
World Cinema: Cambodians take hard self-look By Dustin Roasa, 28 Nov 2010
‘Journalists must never betray a source, even a mass murderer’ by Andrew Johnson, 28 November 2010
A journey to Cambodia’s Heart of Darkness by Andrew Buncombe, 3 December 2010
New Film on Khmer Rouge offers Hope by Stephen Appelbaum, 2 December 2010
The Khmer Rouge took my family but justice should not be vindictive by Thet Sambath, 27 July 2010
My country has been waiting more than 30 years for an international court to deliver judgment on the Khmer Rouge.
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The Truth About the Khmer Rouge is too big for one court case by Thet Sambath, 27 June 2011
It was nearly dark when I got to his small wooden house on the Thai-Cambodian border. He greeted me with a weary smile. We both knew it would be the last time we would sit and eat a meal together.
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