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Without missing a beat, the modest, soft-spoken Mallozzi openly admits to making an attempt to influence at least one major part of the film. Near the film’s end, one of the teens, Samnang, is accepted to his top-choice school, Brown University. However, due to a mix-up with his financial aid forms, he is unable to afford tuition, and has to decline the acceptance. At the Q&A, Mallozzi has no qualms about telling the audience members that she tried to raise money for the boy’s tuition...
...large syndicates based in Thailand and Malaysia control the arms-smuggling trade but it is administered by a dizzyingly complex system of middlemen like Joe. When the police do crack down, those at the top, the brains running the muscle, are never touched. Take a man like Samnang. A 45-year-old arms trader, his daytime job is as a border guard on the Thai side of the border with Cambodia. "I am an ex-Khmer Rouge soldier," he says, smiling easily. We are talking outside his office at the bustling gateway, and Samnang is dressed for work - blue shirt...
...Samnang gets the weapons from his contacts within the Cambodian army, ex-Khmer mates and the villagers along the 700-km border. He mainly sells AK-47s, rocket-propelled grenades and hand grenades. "I sell them to my buyers but I don't know about the end users because there are so many people in the chain. I have some protection from my boss who runs a syndicate. He is close to the powerful people...
...level up from buyers like Samnang are the brokers who collect large orders from buyers and arrange for the gun shipments. Chay, a broker in his early 30s, seems nervous when we meet just after dawn in the urine-redolent upper room of a bar 15 minutes outside Bangkok. A heavily built Thai, Chay fidgets a lot, looking down at his hands. His discomfort may be caused by his boss who is sitting at another table, an obese, balding man in his 50s who scowls behind thick, gold-rimmed glasses and cigar smoke...
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