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...fact, the country once had a vibrant film industry, with studios churning out 50-plus films a year for local audiences. During the 1960s reign of cinema-loving Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Phnom Penh had more than 30 theaters, mostly showing local movies. Sihanouk himself, now the country's King, was an enthusiastic producer, director, scriptwriter, star and music composer. One of the era's classics was 1960's Puos Keng Kang (The Snake King) by director Tea Lim Kun, which retold a Cambodian legend of a peasant woman seduced by the king of the snakes...
...built his rural guerrilla army during the '60s, after Prince Norodom Sihanouk had driven the movement out of the cities. The peasant teenagers under Pol Pot's command seized control of the country in 1975 and declared "Year Zero." At least one million people are estimated to have died in the purges of the next three years as Pol Pot forced millions of Cambodians into the countryside...
...Ousted by a Vietnamese invasion in 1978, Pol Pot returned to the jungle to fight on, this time with backers ranging from China to U.S. allies such as Thailand. Meanwhile, in Phnom Penh, a new power struggle developed between the Vietnamese-backed leader Hun Sen and Sihanouk's son, Prince Norodom Ranarridh. As the Khmer Rouge began to splinter during the '90s, both Hun Sen and Ranarridh courted the support of its warring factions...
...been extremely uncomfortable to most of the region's power players -- the Khmer Rouge itself and its original ideological patrons in Beijing; his enemies in Hanoi who had once helped him take power; the government in Phnom Penh, whose leader Hun Sen was once a Khmer Rouge officer; Princes Sihanouk and Ranarridh, who had made cynical alliances with the Khmer Rouge; the Thai authorities who had until recently sheltered Pol Pot; and even perhaps to Bangkok's allies in Washington. The most striking feature of Pol Pot's legacy of evil, perhaps, was the extent to which it managed...
...assure you that I would much prefer to die from the blows of the Communists (who are certainly hostile to royalty, but who have no contempt for us) than capitulate before you, who symbolize the worst in humanity, i.e., racism, discrimination, injustice, death and lies. NORODOM SIHANOUK Chief of State Pnompenh, Cambodia...