I bumped into this 52-minute video quite some time ago and today I posted it hoping to share it with those of you who have not seen it. It was a recommended video on Google Video when i revisited it today. The video was produced by John Pilger, a world-renowned journalist, author and documentary filmmaker, who began his career in 1958 in his homeland, Australia, before moving to London in the 1960s.
The video tells of how Khmer Rouge made their way to power in April 1975. It’s a video you never want to miss, folks!
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after seeing this film, i feel so sad and bad with the war and wrong leader who say they are nationalist and love people, but they killed people. i feel sad when i see children crying, and teenager are so skinny, and when mother have no way to feed their children. i feel sad when i see how life is in the dead edge. my tears rolling down, telling that my heart loves all these people, and wish them would have chance to survive. and i remember all the hard time i have met, and i know more from this film. thanks for sharing and being my best friend, Phy. we have to be back and do something for Cambodian. starting from me with love.
Ricky
Thanks, Phy, for sharing this. I was actually looking for something like this recently, as in class we’ve been discussing the issues of humanitarian intervention and its relation to international politics.
I first watched John Pilger’s film, “ The War on Democracy” which deals with the Latin America and how the United States effectively overthrew many democracies and started a search on other John Pilger productions. I then came across this one and as a non-paid writer, I am at a complete loss at this moment in time to express myself, but to honor the Cambodian people, I will be writing of this holocaust. Pres. Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger facilitated this holocaust. Richard Nixon should not have been close to impeachment, what he should have faced was similar a judgment as those who were tried at Nuremburg and the same goes for Henry Kissinger.
The thing that bothers me is that the government of the United States never learned from this holocaust. One only has to look at Iraq through the sanctions in the nineties and our invasion of that country albeit illegally in 2003. My only question: Who will be next?
On an end note, hearing through this documentary that Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize, if I could advise former Vice President Al Gore at this moment in time, I would say, “ Return that prize since it is tainted.”
To John Pilger, thank you for opening up my eyes to the truth.
Sincerely,
Mary MacElveen!