Friday, January 29, 2010

Khmer Rouge killing machine explored at Sundance

From L to R: "Enemies of the People" co-directors Rob Lemkin, Film director and journalist Thet Sambath and producer Sandra Whipham
Thursday, January 28, 2010
By Romain Raynaldy
AFP

PARK CITY, Utah — Ten years in the making, a documentary showing at the Sundance Festival explores the inner workings of the Cambodian regime through hundreds of hours of interviews with the Khmer Rouge regime's number two.
"Enemies of the People," in competition at the independent film festival held in Park City in the mountains of Utah, is the product of a collaboration between Cambodian journalist Thet Sambath and Briton Rob Lemkin.
Up to two million people -- a quarter of Cambodia's population -- were executed or died of torture, starvation and overwork under the 1975-1979 regime led by the notorious Pol Pot.

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