Showing posts with label Sellingthe Killing Fields. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sellingthe Killing Fields. Show all posts

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Cambodia: Selling The Killing Fields

What's On the Box this week?

Wednesday, 18th March, 2009
Excerpt from The Meath Chronicle (Ireland)

'Cambodia: Selling The Killing Fields’ (Channel 4, Friday) - This week’s 'Unreported World’ reveals how, 30 years on from the fall of the Khmer Rouge, and at the same time as Pol Pot’s accomplices are put on trial for war crimes, Cambodia’s people are once again being brutally driven from their land. This time, however, it is capitalism, not communism, that is displacing them as growing numbers of tourists fuel a property boom that is having devastating results.