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'First They Killed My Father' film review
gulfnews.com
There also should be no debating the value of a major film being made about the Cambodian genocide under the Khmer Rouge — a film shot in Cambodia, and in the Khmer language, to boot. Or that without Jolie's commitment and clout, First They Killed My ...
First They Killed My Father: Angelina Jolie does it againIrish Times
Jolie's new Cambodia movie is powerful, but Hollywood can never escape itself entirelyAsian Correspondent
Angelina 3.0Pique Newsmagazine
Borneo Bulletin Online
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Angelina Jolie has found a powerful voice as a director. It's time we ...
The Guardian
Angelina Jolie, with Loung Ung, Cambodian activist and co-writer of her latest film, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers.
Oscars: Angelina Jolie's 'First They Killed My Father' Named Cambodia's Foreign Language EntryDeadline
Auckland filmmaker's animation captures refugee dad's life under Khmer RougeNewshub
Angelina Jolie's 'First They Killed My Father' Is Ambitious but Boring ...The Ringer (blog)
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Long Beach's Khmer community marches to decry crackdown on ...
Long Beach Press Telegram
Nearly 300 members of Long Beach's large Cambodian community gathered at City Hall on Saturday to exercise their right to free speech — the same right ...
How Cambodia's Teflon Leader Made A Career Of Blaming AmericaForbes
Hun Sen demands US Ambassador's clarificationsKhmer Times
Cambodia Cooperating With US on Deportations, Foreign Ministry SaysRadio Free Asia

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New Effort to Honor Khmer Krom Fighters Allied With US in Vietnam War
Voice of America
Ethnic Cambodians living in South Vietnam, the Khmer Krom of Task Force 957, Mobile Guerrilla Force (MGF), were “fun to be with,” he recalls, “and they were vicious.” They weren't a well-known force, during or after the war, and for years Yedinak has ...

Khmer community to celebrate Sen Donta Festival - News VietNamNet
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Ethnic Khmers in the Mekong Delta provinces have received congratulations and support from authorities on the occasion of the upcoming Sen Donta Festival ...

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Angelina Jolie's new film on the Khmer Rouge is impeccably made, but will it get under your skin?
Los Angeles Times
Filmmakers who represent the Holocaust have dealt with this dilemma for decades, and Angelina Jolie faces it in "First They Killed My Father," her examination of the nightmarish horrors of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime. The result are always impressive ...
What you need to know before watching Angelina Jolie's First They Killed My FatherRadio Times
First They Killed My Father, Toronto Film Festival review: Angelina Jolie's best work yetThe Independent
Maddox Jolie-Pitt Speaks Out about His 'Wonder' Mom — as Angelina and Kids Emerge from 'Difficult' YearPEOPLE.com
The Sun
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'This Is Their Film': Angelina Jolie Tells A Story Of Khmer Rouge Survival
NPR
The film First They Killed My Father begins in 1975 Cambodia, during the rise of the Khmer Rouge. The hard-line communist regime aimed to deport an entire nation into the countryside and form an agrarian utopia — but their experiment failed. People ...
Angelina Jolie directs a historical drama about the Khmer RougeThe Boston Globe
Angelina Jolie on her Cambodian epic and the power of familyABC News
Review: In Angelina Jolie's New Movie, a Child's-Eye View of WarNew York Times
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Cambodia peacekeeper fights to be recognised as prisoner of war
ABC Online
They fill his mind and have become part of his body — he now has them tattooed on his arm. He was among the first of 65 Australians to arrive as peacekeepers in Cambodia in 1991, after the Khmer Rouge had slaughtered 1.5 million people. "The killing ...

How the nation became a graveyard for democracy
Khmer Times
Is Khmer Times too free-thinking? Time to go to a re-education camp. KT: Do you think the upcoming election will be free and fair? Mr Sophal: No, it will not be free and fair. They've never been except for 1993. They are already the un-freest and un ...
Cambodia Daily Newspaper To Close After 24 YearsNPR
Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha arrested, accused of treasonRadio Free Asia
The Cambodia Daily to Close (After Chasing One Last Big Story ...New York Times
The Cambodia Daily -Broadcasting Board of Governors -VOA Khmer
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Khmer Rouge-era Rape Cases Remain Taboo Topic, Justice Elusive for Survivors
Voice of America
One evening in 1975, soon after the Khmer Rouge forces had taken control of Cambodia, some of the cadres came to Taing Kim's village in Boribo district of Kampong Chhnang Province. The cadres inspected each household, and Taing Kim and her ...