Film on Cambodia sparks forgiveness

Thet Sambath, left, and Rob Lemkin talk about their movie after showing clip at Cambodian Christian Reform Church. (Scott G. Winterton, Deseret News)

Part of documentary on Khmer Rouge is shown at S.L. church
Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010
By Aaron Falk
Deseret News

SALT LAKE CITY — Thet Sambath lost his family to the Khmer Rouge but found peace in Cambodia's "killing fields," the site of mass executions in the 1970s.

Now the investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker hopes his personal search for closure can help lift the dark cloud that hangs over his country.

Sambath spent more than a decade making the film "Enemies of the People," a world cinema documentary competition entry at this year's Sundance Film Festival. The watershed work features some of the only recorded accounts from the Khmer Rouge soldiers and officials who committed the atrocities.

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