Enemies of the People explores inner workings of former Cambodian regime through interviews with Khmer Rouge's second-in-command
07 February 2010
By Men Kimseng, Park City, Utah
Voice of America
A decade in the making, a documentary showing at the Sundance Film Festival explores the inner workings of the former Cambodian regime through hundreds of hours of interviews with the Khmer Rouge's second-in-command. Enemies of the People, which was shown at the independent film festival held in Park City, Utah, is the result 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 Pol Pot.
Cambodian journalist Thet Sambath paid a heavy price. He lost his father, mother and older brother. That profound loss led him on a decade-long journey into the "killing fields" of his homeland to try to understand why his family and so many others were murdered. The result of his work is "Enemies of the People," which Sambeth co-directed and produced with British filmmaker Rob Lemkin.
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