BROTHER NUMBER TWO MEETS GEORGE WASHINGTON IN BANGKOK
Welcome to our first Enemies of the People blog. We plan to update weekly throughout the trial of Nuon Chea (Brother Number Two) due to start in Phnom Penh on June 27, 2011. We will use this blog to...
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NUON CHEA AND POL POT: THE SECRET DEAL
In our film Nuon Chea relates the story of how Pol Pot became the Khmer Rouge leader. Nuon Chea says he allowed Pol Pot to leapfrog him in the Khmer Rouge hierarchy because of the latter’s superior...
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NUON CHEA’S LAST WORDS TO HIS FAMILY
As we show in our film, over a period of years Nuon Chea came to regard Thet Sambath as part of his family, perhaps almost a surrogate son.In July 2007, two months before his arrest, Nuon Chea was very...
View ArticleTHET SAMBATH: REFLECTIONS ON THE OPENING OF THE TRIAL OF NUON CHEA, POL POL’S...
It was nearly dark when I got to his small wooden house at Prome on the Thai-Cambodian border. He greeted me with a weary smile. We both knew it would be the last time we would sit and eat a meal...
View ArticleNUON CHEA UNCUT: 1
Today we have published some extracts from the 1000+ hours of taped conversation between Nuon Chea and Thet Sambath. They give further insight into topics that were more briefly dealt with in our film....
View ArticleKILLING FIELDS FILM: the dangers
On Monday The Guardian newspaper printed a story ‘Film-maker investigating killing fields of Pol Pot’s Cambodia fears for his own life’.Sambath just recently returned from a Bangkok clinic where he was...
View ArticleNEW ANGLES ON THE KILLING FIELDS
Kong Korm, acting president of the Cambodian opposition Sam Rainsy Party, made an interesting remark in a speech on Tuesday at Choeung Ek on the 37th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge takeover. He said...
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