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ANNOUNCEMENT
Film documentary "ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE"
Playing NYC (July 30 – Aug 5), LA (Aug 6 – Aug 12)
One of the most harrowing and compelling personal documentaries of our time, ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE exposes for the first time the truth about the Killing Fields and the Khmer Rouge who were behind Cambodia’s genocide. More than simply an inquiry into Cambodia’s experience, however, ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE is a profound meditation on the nature of good and evil, shedding light on the capacity of some people to do terrible things and for others to forgive them.
Winner of a dozen top documentary festival awards, including a Special Jury Prize at Sundance and the Grand Jury Award at the Full Frame Documentary Festival.
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MOST RECENT CONTRIBUTIONS
ARTICLE
On January 7, 1979, Vietnamese forces defeated the Khmer Rouge and captured
Phnom Penh. Some Cambodians celebrate this date as a day of liberation
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Others, however, associate the date with foreign conquest and subjugation. In his article
Brief History of Vietnamese Expansionism vis-ŕ-vis Cambodia,
Dr. Gaffar Peang-Meth places the invasion and occupation of Cambodia into a larger historic context of
Vietnamese expansionism. Given the history of Cambodia's relations with her neighbor to the east,
a question to keep in mind while reading the article is:
Is history repeating itself?
MUSING
Khmer Rouge survivor Peauladd
Huy has long suppressed the memories of her childhood in the Killing Fields
for fear of being emotionally overwhelmed by them. As a result of her children's questions about their
heritage, however, Peauladd decided she must come to grips with her tragic memories. What she could not
express through the spoken word to her daughters, she
put down on paper. The memories and thoughts eventually gave rise to her poetic chapbook
Souvenirs for My Daughters.
CULTURE
Martial arts is an important but in many ways overlooked
aspect of Cambodian culture. Practiced since pre-Angkorian
times, like many other traditional Khmer arts
such as dance and music, its practice was forbidden and
many master practitioners killed during the Khmer Rouge era. While
traveling Cambodia, American adventurer and martial artist
Antonio Graceffo found the popularity of this indigenous
art form
to be making a comeback. He has preserved
his observations in a series of articles about
Khmer Martial Arts
and has graciously offered them for publication on our
website.
DOCUMENTS
The Cambodian Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human
Rights has compiled a set of
Laws
and Legal Instruments in Force in Cambodia
which
we have placed in the Human Rights section of the
documents page. The
compilation includes domestic law as well as human
rights treaties and other international instruments
to which Cambodia is party. Copies of the laws
are available in both Khmer and English.
KR TRIBUNAL
In June 2003, the Cambodian Government and the UN
signed an agreement paving the way for joint cooperation
on prosecuting former Khmer Rouge leaders. Given
the structure of the trials conceded to by the UN
and the current prevailing corruption in Cambodia,
a show trial of the Khmer
Rouge may not necessarily be the correct course of
action in Cambodia.
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