Wednesday, November 03, 2010

Facing genocide - Khieu Samphan and Pol Pot - Trailer

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Khieu Samphan: My personal responsibility?


I didn't have any power. Maybe...
The film is a search into the personality of Khieu Samphan. He was the Head of state of one of the most brutal regimes ever, the Khmer Rouge-regime in the Democratic Kampuchea. We have followed him one and half year before his arrest in 2007. He is soon facing a trial and is charged with Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes. The film gives insight into his mindset, his life today and his close relation to Pol Pot. The film is a unique story about an ex-leader the time before his arrest and before he is put on trial. The film is completed January 2010.

Others appearing in the film:

Theary Seng, lawyer and victim of the Khmer Rouge. She is Khieu Samphan's antagonist in the film and also the voice of the victims.

Jacques Vergès, Khieu Samphan's defence-lawyer often called the Devil's advocate.

So Socheat, Khieu Samphan's wife, who has been with him since the beginning of the seventies.

Nuon Chea, ideologist and Head of Security of the Khmer Rouge.

9 comments:

Khmer critique..............USA. said...

KR is the victim of Viet Nam's stupid ill-backward plan to swallow Cambodia. KR is just a pawn between China and Viet Nam territorial and political ambition.

How can 5 members of KR killed that many people? It is absurd and tragic for Cambodia.

It is very difficult to accept such that.... but I think Theary Seng did not play the right "plot" it is immature and not the right shot of the documentary.

Not that good. She or who ever direct this film only show the part that theary and other victims family were slaughtered only.

it is not very intrigued at all.


Khmer critique..............USA.

Anonymous said...

China,Vietnam and Russia were heavily involved in astrocity of killingfield in Cambodia.

If you cross-examine of the killing of between reginal killing,then you can see better picture of the killing.
K5 was a very last plan of eliminating youths growing in KR period.

1975-76 killing of brainwash and hatred.

1976-1977 killing of cultural revolution influenced by very left communist china.

1977-1978 killing of the revolutionists including intellectuals and farmer-KRs.

1978-79 massive killing taken place between regions,mass graves and well filled up by bodies killed by branding as enemies.
This weakening strategy as wiping out applied before Vietnam strategically invaded Cambodia.
It was smart trick of Vietnam, using cambodian hands to kill one anothers.

It is interesting to see Mr Hor Nam Hong,killer of Boeung Trabaek and Kiet Chhon,smart minister of every regime face ECCC.
Many more have been hiding and changed their names.

Yes,it is quite impossible for these few linked to this historical mass killing.

Peasant

Anonymous said...

what a loser king go beg viet nam for staying as king and can not beg by himself he even bring his mother which we oun her thru hun sen and cpp and then his father...

you all khmer are a loser race and soon will be erase from this earth...

long live viet nam.. soon we will have nuclear power we will kill all of you so we dont have to waste our resources..

Today we signed 2 nuclear with Japan, 8 with Russia and soon USA will transfer the know how and also technology to make uranium .. then we will erase you all useless khmer from this earth...

now we will use you -- hun sen -cpp is our greaest slave to get more money from china and world for us..
your loser race can not even make toothpick..
LONG LIVE VIET NAM

Anonymous said...

SHORT LIVE VIET NAM... We wish that we would not have been born as Vietnamese …

Việt là đồ ngu mẹ đã ăn thịt chó.
Vietnamese are the mother fuckers and dog eaters.
Ah đồ má con chó,

We are Vietnamese and proud to be dog eaters who live and die like dogs….

Anonymous said...

From 1965 to 1977, Vietnameses, Chineses and Americans created wars in Cambodia.
They helped to aplify the Khmer rouges crimes.

Anonymous said...

I HOPE ONE OF THESE DAY. CAMBODIAN WILL GET RID OF YOUR DICTATORSHIP HUN SEN. REMEMBER HE'S A FORMER OF KHMER ROUGE AND HE NEVER CHANGE HIS MENTALITY AND HE WILL KILL YOU IF YOU DARE TO STAND UP AGAINST HIS PARTY OR CRITIC HIS GOVERNMENT. CAMBODIA MUST USE THE PEOPLE POWER TO KICK HIM OUT OTHERWISE CAMBODIAN WILL BE UNDER OPPRESSION FROM HIS REGIME. WAKE UP CAMBODIAN.

Anonymous said...

Theary Seng !
What you are doing right now is not going to help Cambodia. You're creating the chaos in new generation.
Viet is happy to see you who is doing for its interest.

Theary ! rethink. Do not pull the old wound. You don't know who defend your country. You are taking your personal interest as the main goal for your whole life.

Anonymous said...

4:05AM, I agree with you.

What you are doing right now is not going to help Cambodia. You're creating the chaos in new generation.
Viet is happy to see you who is doing for its interest.

Personal appeal to Theary Seng:

Please have better understanding of
Ho Chi Minh Indochina Federation.

Have a better understanding of our real Khmer history.

Anonymous said...

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said during her visited to Cambodia lately:

Speed up Khmer Rouge Trial ( ECCC )

case # 002.


Hun Sen always says if further indictment, Hun Sen will shut down the Khmer Rouge Trial Court or ( ECCC )


Why Sun Sen always:

1. Always slow the ECCC down.

2. Causing corruption in ECCC.

3. If further indictment Hun Sen
rather shut ECCC down.

4. Why Hun Sen does not cooperate
with cases # 003 and 004.

The answers are too easy and obvious because Yuon and Hun Sen are involved deeply in killing Khmer 1.7 million between 1975-1979:

Look at the so-called Hun Sen government:

1. Hor Namhong ( former Khmer
Rouge B32 prison chief , one of
196 prisons during Khmer Rouge
period between 1975-1979 )
2. Meas Sophea ( yuon born in
in Vietnam serving as Army
General in Hun Sen regime.

3. Heng Samrin ( Khmer Viet Minh
before became Khmer Rouge and
then CPP )

4. Chea Sim ( Khmer Viet Minh
before became Khmer Rouge and
then CPP )

To all Khmer please look at CPP leaders and members they all Yuon , Yuon Viet Minh, Khmer Viet Minh, Former Khmer Rouge before they became CPP Party ruling the country.