Word: cambodia
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...battle has long since extended from Jewish themes to a concern for children everywhere. "The specter of starvation is not something consigned to the '30s and '40s," he says. "I look at the screen and see the swollen bellies and haunted eyes of the very young in Cambodia, in Ethiopia, in South America. I could have been that child. I was that child. And I must make a gesture...
...nomination, but his newfound fame brought a far better reward: a completely unexpected reunion with his only remaining family. Ngor is a Cambodian physician whose own saga of surviving the brutal Khmer Rouge regime closely paralleled the story he enacts in the movie. By the time Ngor escaped from Cambodia in 1979, after four years of torture and forced labor, his entire family, as well as his fiancee, had been murdered by the Communists. Or so he thought, until he was promoting the movie in Europe and received a message from Dom Ponn Many, a niece he had last seen...
Then, when Vietnamese forces invaded Pol Pot's Cambodia in 1979. Chorn escaped to the jungle and ultimately reached a Thai refugee camp. An American adopted Chorn and eight other Cambodian refugees bringing them...
...long-range problems for MIA recovery in Southeast Asia are not disposed of so easily. Laos let negotiations drag for more than three years before allowing this team's visit. Unlike Viet Nam and Kampuchea (formerly Cambodia), + Laos does maintain diplomatic relations with the U.S., though at the charge d'affaires level. But the Laotians here made it very clear that continued cooperation on the MIA issue is contingent upon generous...
...Killing Fields is a very emotional film, but I think if you don't know the background of Cambodia, it's hard to understand exactly what's going on, who were the Khmer Rouge...