Word: khmers
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During the last century, governments murdered millions more of their own innocent citizens in Japan, Cambodia, Turkey, Vietnam, Poland, Pakistan, Yugoslavia, North Korea and Mexico. Perhaps the purest expression of a bloody Marxist revolution took place during a few years in the 1970s, when Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge exterminated 2.5 million of their 7 million souls. Over one-third of the population was intentionally murdered—and this number excludes the 1.5 million more killed in war or rebellion...
With this thought in mind, Power began her excavation and reinterpretation of seven genocides in the past century: Turkey’s murders of Armenians, the Holocaust, the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, Iraq’s Kurdish extermination efforts, the Bosnian Serbs’ killings of Muslims and the Hutu massacres in Rwanda...
...Keeping it real was key to Dillon's vision. Influenced by sources as varied as Samuel Fuller's low-budget House of Bamboo and Joseph Conrad's nightmarish novel Heart of Darkness, City of Ghosts is the first Western movie to capture the atmosphere of post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia: the land-mine casualties, the lawless streets and the gentle Buddhist spirit that provides whatever strength remains in the country. "I didn't want to make a film that was like a postcard," says Dillon. "That's why I didn't shoot at Angkor?you can see that on the Travel...
...Books: Khmer Rouge Memoir
...Books: Khmer Rouge Memoir