Cambodia News: Pol Pot

Google Guy Fired for Sexist Ravings Is Back With a Big, New Idea ...
Splinter (blog)
James Damore, the guy best known for being fired from Google after his anti-diversity screed went viral, is back with an even better thought experiment for us ...
Exclusive: Here's The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Internally at Google [Updated]Gizmodo

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Cambodian mission
AOP
Cambodia is a country of 15 million people and due to various factors, most notably the Pol Pot regime of the 1970s, the country has only 32 ophthalmologists. This is one of the lowest numbers of ophthalmologists per capita in the world. The result ...

Angelina Jolie on her gripping new film about the Cambodian genocide
The Times
What followed in 1975 was Pol Pot's murderous revolution. He turned the clock back to Year Zero, telling the millions of Cambodians toiling in the giant labour camp their country had become: “To spare you is no profit, to destroy you is no loss.” His ...

How Cambodia's Teflon Leader Made A Career Of Blaming America
Forbes
That's a reference to the deadly Pol Pot regime. U.S. troops were also supporting the south Vietnamese, not the Vietnam's Communist Viet Cong that eventually won over there and allied with the Khmer Rouge. The Khmer Rouge took power in 1975. Hun Sen ...

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'First They Killed My Father' Is A True Story That'll Shock & Horrify You
Bustle
The movie, called First They Killed My Father, takes place in the 1970s during the bloody reign of Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge, but is First They Killed My Father a true story? The movie is set in Cambodia in 1975, after the Khmer Rouge took over the ...
Angelina Jolie on Friendship, Survival, and Bringing First They Killed My Father to the Big ScreenVogue.com
Angelina Jolie helps son Maddox bond with his "beautiful" home country of Cambodia with her film, "First They Killed ...kwbe
'First They Killed My Father' review: Angelina Jolie film is a horrific history lessonNewsday
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First They Killed My Father, Toronto Film Festival review: Angelina Jolie's best work yet
The Independent
The film is executive produced and co-scripted by its subject Loung Ung and it is produced by Rithy Panh, the Cambodian author and filmmaker who himself survived the madness of the Pol Pot era. The actors are all Cambodians. We hear hardly any English ...
What you need to know before watching Angelina Jolie's First They Killed My FatherRadio Times
First They Killed My Father review: Angelina Jolie's finest work yetMetro
MOVIE REVIEW: Director Jolie finally has winner in 'First They Killed My Father'Gwinnettdailypost.com
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Pueblo West residents, Pol Pot survivors, detail regime in new book
Pueblo Chieftain
Pol Pot sought to revert Cambodia to an agrarian society. To do that, the Khmer Rouge takeover of the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh was rapidly followed by a series of drastic revolutionary de-industrialization policies. Anyone in the military ...

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Citing the SPLC, Sen. Al Franken Compares Alliance Defending Freedom to Pol Pot
PJ Media
He presented a hypothetical: "Let's say in the seventies, I did lectures and say Pol Pot had asked me to speak, but I didn't like check it out, do you think that would have been good judgment?" Make no mistake: Franken did compare a religious freedom ...

Free speech, social justice, and the leftist heirs to Pol Pot
Washington Examiner
Heirs to Robespierre and Pol Pot, the Left are determined to purge the enemies of truth: enemies of the revolution. If they do not, they believe, injustice will triumph. True, they might not use guillotines and killing fields to achieve their purpose ...

NYT columnist compares Tillerson to Pol Pot
The Hill
“And Tillerson seems to be of a kind of Maoist school, in which it's like, maybe it's Pol Pot.” He clarified that he didn't mean "the killing fields," sites in Cambodia where Pol Pot ordered the death of those suspected of opposing to his regime. "I ...
NY Times Columnist Apologizes For Comparing Rex Tillerson To Pol PotTPM
NYT Columnist Apologizes for Comparing Tillerson to Pol PotNewsmax
The New York Times' Bret Stephens compares Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to Pol PotThe Week Magazine
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