Cambodia News: khmer rouge

Cambodians have been marking the final day of the Festival of the Dead.
euronews
The Festival of the Dead has taken on added significance since the fall of the Khmer Rouge, a regime that killed about a third of the population. As many as 2.2 million people were executed or died of torture, starvation or exhaustion during the Khmer ...
Prayers, buffalo and horse races at Cambodia's Festival of the DeadDaily Mail

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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.
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)
Oscars: Angelina Jolie's 'First They Killed My Father' Named Cambodia's Foreign Language EntryDeadline
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Nearly wiped out by genocide, Long Beach resident helps revive ...
Long Beach Press Telegram
Grandmaster San Kim Sean speaks at a bokator demonstration in Cambodia. Sean is credited with reviving the nearly lost martial art and, along with other ...

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How Cambodia's Teflon Leader Made A Career Of Blaming America
Forbes
The Vietnam War had spilled across the Vietnam-Cambodia border in those years and U.S. bombing of the Cambodian countryside increased from 1970 through 1973, killing some 150,000 Cambodians, per this study. The Communist-inspired Khmer Rouge ...
Cambodian leader, angry with US, wants Peace Corps outABC News
Long Beach's Khmer community marches to decry crackdown on ...Long Beach Press Telegram
Hun Sen demands US Ambassador's clarificationsKhmer Times
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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 review: Angelina Jolie's passion powers this vivid, lyrical Cambodian genocide dramaTelegraph.co.uk
Angelina Jolie's new Cambodia movie is powerful but Hollywood can never escape itself entirelyThe Conversation UK
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Angelina Jolie directs a historical drama about the Khmer Rouge
The Boston Globe
Based on the memoir by Loung Ung (Sreymoch Sareum), the film shows a child and her family trying to survive the genocidal, crackpot communist Khmer Rouge regime. An army of Marxist fanatics seeking to reduce everyone to a single, mindless mass ...
Review: In Angelina Jolie's New Movie, a Child's-Eye View of WarNew York Times
Angelina Jolie on her Cambodian epic and the power of familyABC News
Angelina Jolie's 'First They Killed My Father' opens Cambodia Town Film Festival in Long Beach this weekendLong Beach Press Telegram
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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 ...

First They Killed My Father review – Angelina Jolie's triumph spotlights casualties of war
The Guardian
When the Khmer Rouge arrive in revolutionary triumph, her terrified parents (played by Phoeung Kompheak and Sveng Socheata) realise that they must efface any hint that they were once the hirelings of a government for which the newcomers have a ...
Angelina Jolie's First They Killed My Father Is Frustratingly Inert CinemaVulture
Angelina Jolie's “First They Killed My Father” Is Her Most Accomplished Work YetVillage Voice
How 'Tomb Raider' inspired Angelina Jolie's unflinching new Cambodian filmMarketWatch
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New website aims to educate youth on Khmer Rouge regime
Khmer Times
The Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) launched its new multimedia website on Friday, specifically aimed at educating and informing Cambodia's youth about the Khmer Rouge regime. The website is aimed at shedding light on Cambodia's ...

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 ...