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A Grim Reunion at the Scene of the Crimes.(Movie Review)
In Rithy Panh's imaginative and disorienting new documentary, "S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine," a handful of survivors confront their Khmer tormenters in the dilapidated old Phnom Penh school, known as S21, where they crossed paths more than 25 years ago. It is a grim reunion. Painter Vann Nath calmly tells his former jailers, "You killed without humanity." "I was young," replies one guard. "When I think of that, I have a headache."
Between 1975 and 1979 nearly 1.8 million Cambodians died under the Khmer Rouge, and survivors tend to readily share their stories. But Panh's film excavates new levels of horror, capturing the grueling tension that existed between jailer and jailed. More than 16,000 people were brought into S21 and tormented until they confessed to involvement with the CIA, KGB or Vietnamese enemies. Then they were put to death. In the ...
- Khmer Rouge Declares Provisional Government
- Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered July 11, 1994 700+ words
...outlawed by the Cambodian government, the Khmer Rouge today declared a parallel government...and meaningless. But it indicates the Khmer Rouge isn't going to give up or even compromise...claim. The original tragedy was the Khmer Rouge's brutal reign in the late 1970s under...
- KHMER ROUGE SAID VIOLATING PEACE PACT.(Main)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) November 11, 1991 700+ words
...Times The Communist guerrilla group Khmer Rouge is hiding troops and a huge cache of...United Nations peace treaty that the Khmer Rouge signed in Paris only last month along...into account the possibility that the Khmer Rouge or other factions would try to hide...
- Khmer Rouge Split After Defection of Top Leaders
- Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition August 13, 1996 700+ words
...00-0000 Long-time leader of the Khmer Rouge, Ieng Sary, may rise above his criminal...The Cambodian government is eyeing the Khmer Rouge's long-held gem and timber resources. BOB EDWARDS, Host: Cambodia's Khmer Rouge guerrillas are facing their worst internal...
- Khmer Rouge has copy of Pol Pot: Ta Mok, known as `the Butcher,' may be its new...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Ehrlich, Richard August 4, 1997 700+ words
...last month may signal the rise of a new Khmer Rouge leader in Ta Mok, a brutal, one...author of a book titled "The `New' Khmer Rouge." "Ta Mok is a step backwards...Pot's from the earliest days of the Khmer Rouge - was chief of the general staff of...
- KHMER ROUGE BECOME NEW WARLORDS.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Redmond, Ron November 6, 1998 700+ words
...Kong spent 26 years with the dreaded Khmer Rouge and has the battle scars, icy stare...charisma and ideological fervor of the late Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, whose 1975-79 rule...own people, my own nation. ``The Khmer Rouge made two bad mistakes. They killed...
- Resurgent Khmer Rouge Assure True Believers: `Finally, We Will Win'
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post William Branigin August 23, 1994 700+ words
...year ago, Cambodia's long-running Khmer Rouge insurgency appeared to be on the ropes...analysts say. In fact, they say, the Khmer Rouge are still relatively weak, but the...made the group look good. The issue of Khmer Rouge strength is a crucial one for the United...
- Atrocity - Khmer Rouge Haunting Travesty.
- News wire article from: UNB - United News of Bangladesh November 16, 2007 700+ words
...the travesty of what's known as the Khmer Rouge. Recently things took a different turn...documents filed by prosecutors. The Khmer Rouge followed extreme policies that led to...first arrest was of Ta Mok, the final Khmer Rouge leader (and Southwest Regional Secretary...
- Role of Khmer Rouge Becomes Focus of Cambodian Peace Talks
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Keith B. Richburg May 8, 1989 700+ words
...conflict: What to do about the communist Khmer Rouge. Last week's peace talks here resolved...talks failed to decide what role the Khmer Rouge should be allowed in an interim government...including different estimates of the Khmer Rouge's ability to wage a protracted struggle...