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At 730 a.m. on April 17th 1975

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the war in Cambodia was over it was a
unique war for no country has ever

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experienced such concentrated bombing

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on this perhaps the most gentle
and graceful land at all of

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Asia President Nixon and Mr.
Kissinger unleashed

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100 thousand tons of bombs The
equivalent of five Hiroshimas.

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A bombing was their personal
decision illegally and

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secretly they bombed
Cambodia a neutral country.

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Back to the Stone Age and I mean
Stone Age in its literal sense.

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Shortly after dawn on
April 17th the bombing

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stopped and there was silence
then out of the forest came

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the victors that Camellia ruj
whose powered grown out of

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all proportion to their numbers
they entered the capital non pen.

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A city most of them had never seen.

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They marched in discipline Indian file with
a long boulevards and the still traffic

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They were black and when mostly teenagers
and people cheered them nervously naively.

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After all the bombing the fighting.

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Was over at last a horror
began almost immediately.

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None pen a city of 2.5 million people was
forcibly emptied within hours of their coming

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the sick and wounded being dragged from

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their hospital beds dying children
being carried in plastic bags.

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The old and cripple being dumped beside

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the road and all of them being
marched at gunpoint into

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the countryside and toward
a totally new society the

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like of which we\'ve never
known The new rulers of

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Cambodia called 1975 year 0

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the dawn of an age in which there
would be no families know sentiment.

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No expressions of love or grief.

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No medicines no hospitals no
schools no books no learning.

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No holidays no music no song.

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No post no money only
work and death Cambodia.

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Where is Cambodia some of you might ask.

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Unlike Vietnam its neighbor Cambodia
has been virtually sale for

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four years it\'s suffering invisible
In a world of saturation news.

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There has been no news of
what was really done to

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more than 7 million people of whom at least
2 million I\'m missing believed murdered.

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That\'s about a third of the entire
population proportionately.

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It\'s Birmingham Manchester
and London exterminated.

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For me coming here as being like stumbling
into something I could never imagine.

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And what follows is the first
complete film report by Westerners.

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From the ashes of a gentle land and I have

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to say there are scenes
which may upset some of you

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This is non Penn.

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Once a modern bustling city greater
than Amsterdam or Brussels.

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For four years it stood silent

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abandoned as if in the wake of a nuclear
war that sped only the buildings

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And this is how I remember
it the capital of a land of

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plenty of markets everywhere
at lambda produced

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three annual harvest and a
variety of fruit renowned in

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Asia the Chinese in search of a superlative
used to say as riches Cambodia.

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One man above all reflected this
image nar them See you know

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self-styled God King jazz
lover Movie Maker conspirator

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demagogue See you know preserve
Cambodia as independence like

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an absurd juggler in a cockpit
of war in 1970 he was

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overthrown in the chaos that followed

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the American bombing In

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the spring of 1969 American B52 had begun
the secret bombing of neutral Cambodia.

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These top secret military
cables obtained under

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the Freedom of Information
Act were part of a cover up

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that was the real beginning
of Watergate the pilots

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were sworn not to tell even their
superiors and their logs were

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falsified the official aim of the bombing was
to wipe out a Vietcong vase and Cambodia.

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A base that existed only
in the imagination of

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American generals President Nixon\'s aim was
to show the Vietnamese Communists just how

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tough he could be a policy
he wants described as

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the Madman Theory of war the Cambodians
who died were called collateral

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damage and they\'re burning
villages were called friendly

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fire the Pentagon or describe Cambodians

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as a dosa island passive people who cannot
be relied upon to act in a positive way for

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the benefit of American policies in 1970
the United States invaded Cambodia.

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A member of Dr. Kissinger staff
described how the invasion was

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launched Nixon had been watching
his favorite movie pattern.

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Whose War heroic seem to fortify

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his toughness Kissinger had been dining
out on stories of Nixon\'s drinking.

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Shortly before the invasion Nixon who was
drunk spoke to Kissinger on the phone.

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He\'s slurred FS doesn\'t work.

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It\'ll be our asked Henry Kissinger
at once described Nixon.

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As unfit to be president he also
called him a meatball mine.

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Between the two of them they began the
destruction of those passive dose are people.

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Thousands of miles away here in Cambodia.

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Of course Nixon was later apprehended
Not for the murder of Cambodia.

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But for a domestic affair called Watergate
Kissinger received the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Out of the inferno of bonds came called Part
a form of Buddhist monk and the Khmer Rouge.

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Whose revolution had never enjoyed a popular
base until Nixon\'s Madman Theory of

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war the bombing upset

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the delicate balance of royalists
Republicans and communists.

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It triggered a war that caused
at least a million dead and

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wounded and tore apart the very fabric of

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Cambodia When I came

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to Cambodia in 1967 non Penn was the
most beautiful city in Southeast Asia.

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Perhaps it\'s too easy for a foreigner
to romanticize such a place but to

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fly across the Mekong River from
beleaguered and neurotic Saigon was to

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reaffirm the belief that if only
foreign armies would leave alone

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these people they would assert their own
civilization and measure their own prosperity.

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Certainly there was feudalism and corruption
but there was no war. No Slaughter.

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No napalm and the Cambodian family was
a fortress without warrant and now.

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Now this delicious city is a smoldering
wreck of that vision Gangs are scavengers.

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Mostly children forage in
the empty houses offices.

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Schools cinemas parks museums in
all but a few places there is

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no electricity and no sewerage

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the water supplies polluted by the bodies
of countless murdered and tortured.

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Men women and children and the
Django has reclaimed their homes.

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This was the National Library.

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Almost as a symbol the Khmer Rouge converted
it into a pig sty and burned it\'s books

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And archives from year 0 all
past knowledge was illegal

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and here is one of the more
grotesque ironies of at all

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the Khmer Rouge banned all forms
of money and yet they had printed.

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Millions of these brand new banknotes.

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And just before the Vietnamese
drove into the city last year

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the Khmer Rouge blew up the National
Bank and the monsoon rains carried

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all this money Through the
city and today a city that

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has nothing was literally running
with money all of it worthless

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Obama as representative of unicef you
have seen the situation here in Cambodia.

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How many people are threatened Famine by

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starvation do you think the
government has requested help

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for 2,000,250 thousand people who
are threatened by famine yes.

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By hunger. This is the dimension of the
problem let me tell you something on

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the 18th of July I did go to compounds
per and I visited the hospitals

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in one of the very poor barracks with practically
nothing there was already 54 children

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dying one of them was sitting The
corner of the room with swollen legs

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because he was starving he did not have

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the strength to look at me up to
anybody it was just waiting to die.

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Ten days later.

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Four of these children were dead
and I will always remember that.

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Saying I did not do anything for these
children because we had nothing

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At the beginning of July

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the Cambodian government handed a
request for a 100 thousand tons of

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rice and medical supplies to the
International Red Cross and unicef.

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While not here in the town of
compounds spur these four scoops of

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rice are all that these people
will get for one month and

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this food comes from another
impoverished country Vietnam

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Up to the middle of October the
International Red Cross and unicef.

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Had sent 200 tons of relief.

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Which effectively is nothing factory where
this is Cambodia is human hemorrhage.

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The road people hungry sick dislocated.

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They crowd the roads trying to
find their way home to villages.

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Many of which were raised to the ground
by the Khmer Rouge Every family I met.

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Had lost at least six
members killed or starve.

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The khumeia ruj drew up a constitution
for the new democratic Cambodia.

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Article 20 of the constitution.

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Said that any Cambodian had the
right to worship according to

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any religion and Cambodians
had the right not to worship.

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According to any religion
but any religion that was

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wrong and detrimental to Cambodia
was absolutely forbidden.

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That\'s what Chairman Mao whose
teachings that Khmer Rouge

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followed to the most barbaric extremes.

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Might have called a contradiction most
Cambodians of Buddhists Buddhism inspires

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the gentle the passive and venerates
harmony with other human beings and

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their land and not mastery over them a Comer
Rouge set out to wipe out this tradition.

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Almost overnight.

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They murdered monks and all
those found at prayer.

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They sacked pagodas and of course
they turned the same venom

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against all other religions
where I\'m standing.

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Was a magnificent 19th century Roman
Catholic Cathedral and this is what is

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left it seems the pole
part imagined himself

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as an heir to the empire
of Angkor Wat whose

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kings rule from these temples
In the tenth century.

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In Khmer Rouge ideology
communism was seldom mentioned.

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Instead there was the anchor.

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Or organization which demanded slavery
in an agrarian society without towns or

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machines the chinese back Pol
Pot and his delusions are being

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another Mao Tse Tung they saw Cambodia
as a rice bowl and a future colony.

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As it already appears on some Chinese maps

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in this rare Khmer Rouge film
we see people as slaves.

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Even the word sleep.

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Was banned from year 0
only rest could be used.

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People lived in barracks
without walls Families were

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split up husbands and wives
could meet only once a month

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a young boy smiled at me while we worked
a girl told me and he was killed during

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the rainy season and
during the dry season all

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days and all Nivea had to
go up about three of clubs.

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Three o\'clock in the morning in
the morning and work it until

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11 o\'clock 11 at night and what
what kind of food that they

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can only avoided arises and sometime we
saw what happened to your family during

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the full years my sister with He has been
and C\'s children are clear that my brother.

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My older brother younger brother until
birth rather in-laws were cleared

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it and this is

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where some of them died a high-school
became an Asian Auschwitz.

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Like the Nazis the Khmer Rouge
photograph their victims.

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When they were brought to the camp
and as they were being tortured and

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hang drowned disassembled
and electrocuted and

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this camp alone 12
thousand people died like

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that

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Article

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19 so

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when defied to serve the state.

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He killed every day ten to 50 men.

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Every day 77 to 78 if keel handed
to hand that 50 men and day.

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Mr. Peck what did they do to you here
your hippie if stick them I hang my hat a

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hitch Romanian head to my hat
yet 50 bar Of the stick stick.

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They hit your head 50 times Vcc tam 50
with a with a piece of wood that piece

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wouldn\'t be July that what other
things did they do to aid in my hand.

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My hand. My hand by the wiser.

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On a device and I put this handling
file that\'s why that\'s why

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I spent and the detector linger.

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To pull out my finger near they pull

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your fingers After he

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put on there to make it
very thin layer of a bank.

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I\'m forget everything I don\'t know my mm.

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Also add anonymized them.

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How\'s a Milan has may wafer.

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With Nano in missing here people were

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mutilated on ion beds and their
blood and tuffs of hair still on

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the floor former civil servants soldiers
teachers students actors technicians.

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This was a victim photograph
Does he was found when

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the Vietnamese discovered the camp Like

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Gestapo called S-21 tortured and killed
all those designated as sub people.

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Virtually anybody who had lived in a town
who had Martin skills who knew foreigners.

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For example. Only one lawyer
has been found alive.

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Did they also kill women and
children here all money

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seeding the first Hamm
he cared that cheating.

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After the wife and after he

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first they kill the children any path
then the wire divide and the mainland

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of man These are captured
Khmer Rouge troops.

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All of them have taken part in mass murder.

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Why did they kill these people that
had a monotheism law potato under

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Ottoman man bought bought

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by rapid T2 integrally will call Malabo
Vietnam Whitman but for soccer material.

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He said that the Beaufort
insulary commanded to kill

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all these people redress and how
many people they killed that moment

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Emonet Muslim law particularly
anchorman Low gum hasn\'t

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yet for this Grb 250 he
killed 250 and the other man.

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What did the love of people and
this group is to find how many

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were there in a group mock normal
economical mind-map Gramon low then.

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Similarly clip on my neck.

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Eight so.

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Eight persons killed 258 persons killed

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2500 no hazard now maybe I would
give them that money 5050

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Ask us dressed this man here with he

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must have thought when he was killing
all these people that he was killing

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fellow human beings fellow comes from then
on I feminism madmen hat they got on am

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and detach it fast enough
but you don\'t get.

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They\'ll go via its matlab will
fall for given t r is given

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all people and brand-name
non null but damn.

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While we\'re mapping of nanoscale
he said that if he does not care

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this people hire commanded
killed it in amongst

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these thousands of people Were they just

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simply peasants women and children young
children come to now be teacher lens

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and Latin and Battier petition theatre
teleological Tom ladder equity

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in particular some lovely
who John John Law.

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Most of the people they care did from

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all strata yeah yes yes the
middle-class and the women and

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charge and ranges from 100 years
after 50 children of his own Yes.

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He has children because my main colon
Called moire yes there\'s one child.

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This is child alive Conan
Natalie load or my wife.

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My son mydata anything before or
you have an later my my my child.

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On a11 family children would kill five
5-2 rising hour they killed hidden

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hidden give the energy to it I say they

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starved to anything with anything No rice.

00:23:38.555 --> 00:23:46.555
No tuple anything you
are one of eight yeah.

00:23:47.719 --> 00:23:51.378
Who survived Yeah you were here on the day

00:23:51.379 --> 00:23:57.119
the deliberation yeah what
did you feel on that day

00:23:57.550 --> 00:24:00.709
what were you what were your thoughts on

00:24:00.710 --> 00:24:08.710
the day of liberation or as

00:24:09.679 --> 00:24:11.238
a Tamar deliberation.

00:24:11.239 --> 00:24:14.058
Already for me.

00:24:14.059 --> 00:24:22.059
Personal and very glad Because
you know if the my life today.

00:24:23.285 --> 00:24:27.824
End of the day we don\'t know though to lie

00:24:27.825 --> 00:24:31.188
picket ami or tomorrow you can\'t

00:24:31.189 --> 00:24:36.034
be out of 12 thousand who died
in this extermination camps.

00:24:36.035 --> 00:24:38.793
These eight people were found alive.

00:24:38.794 --> 00:24:42.363
One minus a sculptor. Another painter.

00:24:42.364 --> 00:24:45.768
They survive because they
were put to work making busts

00:24:45.769 --> 00:24:49.830
and painting god-like pictures of Paul Paul

00:25:23.820 --> 00:25:30.699
I shall never forget the 17th of
April 1975 said Mr. prac sarin.

00:25:30.700 --> 00:25:33.459
A teacher I was in my classroom when

00:25:33.460 --> 00:25:37.988
the Khmer Rouge bust in and told us
all to march into the countryside.

00:25:37.989 --> 00:25:39.878
The children were crying.

00:25:39.879 --> 00:25:43.929
I asked if they could first go home
to join their families they said

00:25:43.930 --> 00:25:48.803
no Most of the little ones
died of exhaustion. Or hunger.

00:25:48.804 --> 00:25:53.438
I never saw my own family again before year

00:25:53.439 --> 00:25:59.514
0 they were 990 thousand primary
school children in Cambodia.

00:25:59.515 --> 00:26:04.999
Of these 670 thousand are missing

00:26:42.960 --> 00:26:47.289
There are 558 people in
this the main hospital

00:26:47.290 --> 00:26:50.934
of non Penn and most of them
are children and babies.

00:26:50.935 --> 00:26:54.698
They are dying because they have
virtually nothing of value to eat.

00:26:54.699 --> 00:26:56.844
No freshwater no vitamins.

00:26:56.845 --> 00:27:02.108
No milk and there are no medicines
to speak of no antibiotics and

00:27:02.109 --> 00:27:03.968
not even enough bandages

00:27:03.969 --> 00:27:09.098
one middle boys screens can be heard out in
the street rising and falling and agony.

00:27:09.099 --> 00:27:12.499
Is starving This morning I was approached

00:27:12.500 --> 00:27:16.188
by a man from the International Red
Cross he said he was desperate.

00:27:16.189 --> 00:27:20.149
He asked me if I had a contact in a
government any government that could

00:27:20.150 --> 00:27:24.288
supply one Hercules C13
relief plane just one of

00:27:24.289 --> 00:27:27.978
these big cargo planes carrying
transport and drugs and food he

00:27:27.979 --> 00:27:32.299
said would save thousands
of lives but why I asked.

00:27:32.300 --> 00:27:38.283
Could not the International Red Cross supply
one such plane itself because he said

00:27:38.284 --> 00:27:41.119
my directors in Geneva
are still considering

00:27:41.120 --> 00:27:45.079
the overall framework of a
plan of relief for Cambodia.

00:27:45.080 --> 00:27:49.428
Look he said this is Southeast Asia
there are politics involved you

00:27:49.429 --> 00:27:55.309
know what he meant to say Was that
the United Nations Britain included.

00:27:55.310 --> 00:28:00.529
Still recognizes the defeated
murderous regime of the Khmer Rouge.

00:28:00.530 --> 00:28:05.209
And it\'s difficult to get official
help for people whose new government.

00:28:05.210 --> 00:28:08.869
Still does not diplomatically exist in

00:28:08.870 --> 00:28:13.939
other words 3 million people are beginning
to starve to death in Cambodia and

00:28:13.940 --> 00:28:15.979
the International Red Cross and

00:28:15.980 --> 00:28:20.779
the relief agencies and governments
are doing virtually nothing

00:28:20.780 --> 00:28:24.289
because the new leaders of
this country have yet to be

00:28:24.290 --> 00:28:28.984
recognized to be approved of and
of course if you\'re in Geneva.

00:28:28.985 --> 00:28:31.279
Or New York or London.

00:28:31.280 --> 00:28:35.609
You can\'t hear the screams
of a little boy I mentioned

00:28:44.050 --> 00:28:46.319
Oh

00:29:18.270 --> 00:29:19.479
This

00:29:19.480 --> 00:29:22.298
has come sock age ten.

00:29:22.299 --> 00:29:24.189
His parents are dead.

00:29:24.190 --> 00:29:29.259
He was found starving on a rubbish
tip on the day we filmed him he

00:29:29.260 --> 00:29:34.973
desperately needed penicillin and milk of
which there was none in this hospital.

00:29:34.974 --> 00:29:40.069
We came back to see him the
next day and he was dead.

00:29:42.690 --> 00:29:45.443
During the time of our filming.

00:29:45.444 --> 00:29:49.628
There were only two Western doctors
who had come to Cambodia to help.

00:29:49.629 --> 00:29:57.050
Doctors in this hospital we seem to be
surrounded by every problem imagining.

00:29:57.660 --> 00:30:05.660
Where do we start Programming convention today
is a malnutritions of whole populations.

00:30:08.299 --> 00:30:14.089
Especially of the children how
serious is that is it doesn\'t affect

00:30:14.090 --> 00:30:17.719
a majority of the children
or yes yes majority of

00:30:17.720 --> 00:30:22.119
the little girl and she seems
to be in a terrible state.

00:30:22.120 --> 00:30:27.799
So there are two children
with advanced malnutritions.

00:30:27.800 --> 00:30:35.729
A big had the men and the very thing links

00:30:43.360 --> 00:30:51.360
So now the lounge around and
around one month one year one

00:30:53.450 --> 00:31:01.450
year I think it\'s

00:31:03.259 --> 00:31:05.809
a terrible problem because
this population has been

00:31:05.810 --> 00:31:10.323
submitted during four years to a regime of

00:31:10.324 --> 00:31:18.049
very poor nutrition and very hard
work and the results are here

00:31:18.050 --> 00:31:23.598
the psychological conditions were terrible
islands from the families were systematically

00:31:23.599 --> 00:31:29.283
separated There was no
possibility of any else.

00:31:29.284 --> 00:31:32.523
What\'s wrong with the Civil War.

00:31:32.524 --> 00:31:36.228
It\'s a typical malnutrition with

00:31:36.229 --> 00:31:40.278
skin disease on the whole is

00:31:40.279 --> 00:31:45.900
the bodies of how organization in
his 12-year-old is 12 wondering.

00:31:50.170 --> 00:31:54.199
This little boy is literally
skin and bone height

00:31:54.200 --> 00:31:59.314
now what can you do to save him.
Can you save him.

00:31:59.315 --> 00:32:03.979
Yes it\'s possible but
also probably this boy at

00:32:03.980 --> 00:32:09.079
the some other disease and
it\'s We had to deform

00:32:09.080 --> 00:32:15.109
examination with a laboratory and
x-ray examination in order to

00:32:15.110 --> 00:32:18.439
precisely these other diseases but

00:32:18.440 --> 00:32:22.354
all the modern equipment in this hospital
was destroyed by the Khmer Rouge.

00:32:22.355 --> 00:32:29.119
Who banned all forms of modern medicine and
razed to the ground 30 hospitals and clinics.

00:32:29.120 --> 00:32:35.520
There were 550 doctors
in Cambodia 48 survived

00:33:13.020 --> 00:33:15.533
There is no combo jet.

00:33:15.534 --> 00:33:20.389
Which is not still no college degree.

00:33:21.630 --> 00:33:29.124
Actually and reimagine C. It\'s a real
emergency to bear to get food and to get

00:33:29.125 --> 00:33:37.125
dragged into feet first and
All this sick population.

00:33:37.355 --> 00:33:42.903
Children and also headaches are dying of

00:33:42.904 --> 00:33:50.904
miscible disease for our time
in non miscible yeah there are.

00:33:51.460 --> 00:33:59.013
Millions of people we are in the same
situation of the refugee Are you saying

00:33:59.014 --> 00:34:06.228
that because of the West\'s attitude
towards the boat people refugees.

00:34:06.229 --> 00:34:14.229
Then they are not allowing aid to come through
the Cambodia yes is eating the same way

00:34:14.345 --> 00:34:18.798
There\'s a cutoff of expeditions of milk to

00:34:18.799 --> 00:34:24.258
Vietnam is the lack of
assistance to convergent.

00:34:24.259 --> 00:34:32.259
Same way scholarly yeah yeah the European
Economic Community has suppressed.

00:34:33.724 --> 00:34:41.724
Recently the food assistance to vietnam
and I think it\'s the same thing and then

00:34:43.189 --> 00:34:46.759
imaginable situation is that
the Vietnamese which is in

00:34:46.760 --> 00:34:54.760
a very difficult situation at
the alimentation level on that.

00:34:54.844 --> 00:35:02.844
Medical level Gave him says give some
drugs and some food to this discount rate

00:35:04.780 --> 00:35:12.589
this is a food convoy from Vietnam Cambodia
is only guaranteed lifeline Vietnam although

00:35:12.590 --> 00:35:15.978
itself facing famine after
30 years of war has

00:35:15.979 --> 00:35:20.089
sent more than 25 thousand
tons of food to Cambodia.

00:35:20.090 --> 00:35:23.839
The Vietnamese have managed
to do this by asking

00:35:23.840 --> 00:35:28.908
every family in their southwestern
provinces to give six pounds of rice.

00:35:28.909 --> 00:35:30.588
By contrast.

00:35:30.589 --> 00:35:35.494
Western governments have sent only a
dribble of aid the major agencies

00:35:35.495 --> 00:35:41.283
the International Red Cross and unicef Have
demanded strings to their proposed charity.

00:35:41.284 --> 00:35:44.389
Such as the right to supply
what they call the other

00:35:44.390 --> 00:35:49.504
side Western observers who have
crossed the border into Cambodia.

00:35:49.505 --> 00:35:52.099
Have seen what this means in reality.

00:35:52.100 --> 00:35:54.933
It means feeding not civilians.

00:35:54.934 --> 00:36:00.904
Not women and children but supplying what
is left of Pol Pot\'s army of genocide.

00:36:00.905 --> 00:36:04.608
For this privilege the agencies
have withheld aid from

00:36:04.609 --> 00:36:08.778
90% of the Cambodian people supplying

00:36:08.779 --> 00:36:12.259
the Khmer Rouge is in line with
the West diplomatic support for

00:36:12.260 --> 00:36:16.608
Pol Pot last month the United
Nations General Assembly.

00:36:16.609 --> 00:36:19.009
Was witness to the
extraordinary spectacle of

00:36:19.010 --> 00:36:23.388
the Western democracies America
and Britain included voting to

00:36:23.389 --> 00:36:26.808
continue recognition of a
defunct regime which they

00:36:26.809 --> 00:36:30.694
themselves acknowledged as the
most firearm mass murderers.

00:36:30.695 --> 00:36:36.378
Since Hitler and the reason is this
the West does not wish to upset

00:36:36.379 --> 00:36:43.890
its newest ally and trading partner China for
China is also Pol Pot\'s principal backer.

00:36:44.170 --> 00:36:49.488
One British organization Oxfam has
attached no political strings to

00:36:49.489 --> 00:36:54.079
its aid and its success in feeding
some of the staffing is an indictment

00:36:54.080 --> 00:36:56.314
of all those governments
still talking about

00:36:56.315 --> 00:37:02.088
the global power balance and all those relief
agencies Which refused to move without

00:37:02.089 --> 00:37:05.479
their caravan of conditions on

00:37:05.480 --> 00:37:10.654
October the 15th Oxfam\'s Director
General Brian Walker said in London.

00:37:10.655 --> 00:37:14.059
We\'ve had only complete
and honorable cooperation

00:37:14.060 --> 00:37:17.554
from the Cambodian government
and the Vietnamese.

00:37:17.555 --> 00:37:20.254
When I left Cambodia said Walker.

00:37:20.255 --> 00:37:24.739
The total input of western aid
over nine months amounted to

00:37:24.740 --> 00:37:30.929
200 tons of food I don\'t see how
anyone can be proud of that situation

00:37:46.600 --> 00:37:52.024
People as anthrax in French
melody shutoff yeah.

00:37:52.025 --> 00:37:56.554
Now what is N tracks and
what does it do hates

00:37:56.555 --> 00:37:59.133
infectious disease which is due to

00:37:59.134 --> 00:38:03.349
bacillus bacillus of shadow and how
do you treat it by antibiotics.

00:38:03.350 --> 00:38:06.228
Such as penicillin penicillin penicillin in

00:38:06.229 --> 00:38:09.769
unison and yet you\'re Israeli
penicillin in this hospital.

00:38:09.770 --> 00:38:14.058
No he says there are some but
not enough if people don\'t get

00:38:14.059 --> 00:38:18.978
any penicillin at all how
long does it take them to

00:38:18.979 --> 00:38:26.133
die they die and one to two week
or one month That really says

00:38:26.134 --> 00:38:29.719
a lot about the problems of this country a

00:38:29.720 --> 00:38:34.803
simple preventable disease
that needs only penicillin.

00:38:34.804 --> 00:38:41.223
This is a disease that you usually never
see in Europe is a DC has witnessed.

00:38:41.224 --> 00:38:46.458
Animals. Yes so it\'s an
animal is this child.

00:38:46.459 --> 00:38:48.438
What he or she suffering from.

00:38:48.439 --> 00:38:53.628
She\'s suffering from the contracts are
from Android to access a face yes on

00:38:53.629 --> 00:39:00.574
the forum malnutrition or the first
degree wires her face swollen.

00:39:00.575 --> 00:39:04.533
Why why yes because there is this
answer and because the contract.

00:39:04.534 --> 00:39:08.809
So she so it\'s difficult
for her to eat Yes yes yes

00:39:08.810 --> 00:39:15.288
yes what will happen to his lack
of threatened she she does.

00:39:15.289 --> 00:39:23.289
Next week the few drugs

00:39:25.550 --> 00:39:29.629
that have reached the hospital accompanying
spur simply prolong the agony.

00:39:29.630 --> 00:39:33.619
Every morning the Vietnamese doctor
must decide who will live a little

00:39:33.620 --> 00:39:38.358
longer and who will die the
population is traumatized.

00:39:38.359 --> 00:39:41.928
There is one miscarriage for
every three normal pregnancies

00:39:41.929 --> 00:39:45.768
and at least 50% of the women
have lost their menstrual cycle

00:39:45.769 --> 00:39:53.769
completely Shy people never held out a
begging bowl but such as their agony.

00:39:54.065 --> 00:39:56.794
That this young woman
begged us for medicines.

00:39:56.795 --> 00:39:59.040
Before she died

00:40:32.550 --> 00:40:36.729
These children are the end
of a process begun by

00:40:36.730 --> 00:40:39.069
impeccable politicians who took

00:40:39.070 --> 00:40:42.984
their decisions at great distance
from the results of their savagery.

00:40:42.985 --> 00:40:46.869
Their style may have different from
Paul Potts but the effect was the

00:40:46.870 --> 00:40:52.719
same the bombs are like falling
rain wrote a child in 1973

00:40:52.720 --> 00:40:57.099
a year in which the tonnage of
bombs dropped on Cambodia exceeded

00:40:57.100 --> 00:41:01.944
by half the entire tonnage dropped
on Japan in World War two

00:41:01.945 --> 00:41:05.379
the price of a Cambodian
life was incidentally

00:41:05.380 --> 00:41:10.059
$100 compensation William shore cross

00:41:10.060 --> 00:41:15.754
the British author interviewed prints C
in a class year Two men said see an oak.

00:41:15.755 --> 00:41:19.113
Are responsible for the
tragedy in Cambodia today.

00:41:19.114 --> 00:41:24.919
Mr. Nixon and Dr. Kissinger
by expanding the war and to

00:41:24.920 --> 00:41:27.558
my country they killed
a lot of Americans and

00:41:27.559 --> 00:41:32.669
many other people and they
created the Khmer Rouge.

00:41:43.450 --> 00:41:46.819
The people in the town of kindling south.

00:41:46.820 --> 00:41:48.874
On the banks of the Mekong River.

00:41:48.875 --> 00:41:52.608
Have regressed almost
to the stone age before

00:41:52.609 --> 00:41:57.439
the Madman Theory of war and before
Paul Piff This was a place of

00:41:57.440 --> 00:42:02.059
prosperous farmers skill
workers engineers and teachers

00:42:02.060 --> 00:42:05.253
all of brick and stone
buildings have been destroyed

00:42:05.254 --> 00:42:08.883
and people now live under straw
and imply would shanties.

00:42:08.884 --> 00:42:12.289
There are few adult males
left to work the fields and

00:42:12.290 --> 00:42:16.398
the rice ration is half
a pound per person per

00:42:16.399 --> 00:42:22.999
month a young woman describes

00:42:23.000 --> 00:42:26.299
how 16 members of her
family were executed in

00:42:26.300 --> 00:42:30.018
one day they were declared
to be unproductive.

00:42:30.019 --> 00:42:35.988
She said they were killed with pieces of
wood and their throats were slit one-by-one.

00:42:35.989 --> 00:42:39.409
My baby was left in the heat to die My

00:42:39.410 --> 00:42:43.830
sister-in-law was killed because
someone said she was too beautiful.

00:43:05.350 --> 00:43:10.189
The Vietnamese or condemned for
driving out the Khmer Rouge killers.

00:43:10.190 --> 00:43:13.308
Were the Tanzania ends
condemned for throwing out

00:43:13.309 --> 00:43:18.153
the hideous EDI men of course
not it should be explained

00:43:18.154 --> 00:43:21.979
why the Vietnamese came
here to Cambodia After

00:43:21.980 --> 00:43:26.704
1975 Vietnam was under constant
attack by the Khmer Rouge.

00:43:26.705 --> 00:43:30.348
Who massacred Vietnamese border
villages and we\'re supported by

00:43:30.349 --> 00:43:36.603
10 thousand Chinese and unholy trinity
of Pol Pot China and America.

00:43:36.604 --> 00:43:39.259
Said that Vietnam is an agent of Russia.

00:43:39.260 --> 00:43:43.144
Anybody who knows the fiercely
nationalistic Vietnamese.

00:43:43.145 --> 00:43:45.859
Who had stood virtually
alone against invaders for

00:43:45.860 --> 00:43:50.329
30 years knows this to
be laughably untrue but

00:43:50.330 --> 00:43:54.228
the Chinese threat and the
present denial of aid is pushing

00:43:54.229 --> 00:43:59.689
both Vietnam and Cambodia deeper into
the waiting arms of the Soviet Union.

00:43:59.690 --> 00:44:05.508
Both the Cambodians and the Vietnamese
Fighting for their survival has never

00:44:05.509 --> 00:44:11.808
before when the Khmer Rouge
retreated before the Vietnamese.

00:44:11.809 --> 00:44:17.118
They blew up many traditional dikes and
dams and to add to the Apocalypse.

00:44:17.119 --> 00:44:18.708
The rains have been unrelenting

00:44:18.709 --> 00:44:24.649
this year from the air the endless
landscape and Southeast Asia.

00:44:24.650 --> 00:44:27.799
A patchwork of paddies and feels is barely

00:44:27.800 --> 00:44:32.899
discernible nothing moves as if the
great humanity of Asia has stopped

00:44:32.900 --> 00:44:32.990
at

00:44:32.991 --> 00:44:34.529
The border

00:44:51.370 --> 00:44:52.908
Non Penn

00:44:52.909 --> 00:44:56.929
is dreamlike nothing seems to
echo from the days of peace.

00:44:56.930 --> 00:45:01.578
Then your work at the hotel Royale
switched on your radio and in

00:45:01.579 --> 00:45:06.498
all probability heard the squeaky Drama
Queen voice of prints C and a rating

00:45:06.499 --> 00:45:09.798
you for writing an article about
the financial excesses of

00:45:09.799 --> 00:45:16.249
the royal family Sundays rejoice Especially
the parade down money wrong avenue.

00:45:16.250 --> 00:45:21.678
The parasol cells that girls with Jasmine
astride Honda\'s the saffron robes

00:45:21.679 --> 00:45:24.918
the ice cream barriers the
Haessler\'s that platoons

00:45:24.919 --> 00:45:29.160
of well-fed families the cared for children

00:46:10.560 --> 00:46:17.078
These are the first toys these children
have ever seen at this orphanage.

00:46:17.079 --> 00:46:20.589
Out of a total of 400 children there are

00:46:20.590 --> 00:46:26.799
only 22 children age between 15
during the years of the Khmer Rouge.

00:46:26.800 --> 00:46:33.099
Few pregnancies run their course and Q
babies survive these children were found in

00:46:33.100 --> 00:46:40.083
the forest living of tree bark grass and
poisonous plants They are not only orphans.

00:46:40.084 --> 00:46:45.529
They have lost their identity normality at

00:46:45.530 --> 00:46:51.978
last the first school in non pen to
reopen likely infants with their toys.

00:46:51.979 --> 00:46:57.859
These children are the lucky ones they
have paper and pencils elsewhere.

00:46:57.860 --> 00:47:00.569
There is none of these things

00:47:24.780 --> 00:47:29.964
I remember. Said the
child I am 12 years old.

00:47:29.965 --> 00:47:35.889
What is your name I asked
him I forget he replied.

00:47:35.890 --> 00:47:39.833
We forget I say yes.

00:47:39.834 --> 00:47:46.489
Where are your parents I
forget I think they did

00:48:12.400 --> 00:48:17.374
Many people dead people

00:48:17.375 --> 00:48:23.209
alive fighting Philadelphia survival we
should then how much time have we got to

00:48:23.210 --> 00:48:29.224
save those 2 million to 2 million people

00:48:29.225 --> 00:48:34.979
these has been requested for the next
six months so we\'ve got six months yeah

00:48:51.600 --> 00:48:54.549
If the horrors in this
documentary out or have

00:48:54.550 --> 00:48:58.418
any purpose it is not just
to a soldier emotions.

00:48:58.419 --> 00:49:02.289
It is to end the silence and
indifference contrived by governments

00:49:02.290 --> 00:49:06.549
and relief agencies and to put
Cambodia back on the human map.

00:49:06.550 --> 00:49:09.788
When the Vietnamese army
throughout the Khmer Rouge.

00:49:09.789 --> 00:49:12.489
They rescued this country
for whatever reason.

00:49:12.490 --> 00:49:15.803
From slavery and possible extinction.

00:49:15.804 --> 00:49:19.613
Western governments may not
wish to recognise that fact.

00:49:19.614 --> 00:49:21.218
But nothing is more obvious to

00:49:21.219 --> 00:49:26.019
the Cambodian people on the day
of liberation. My interpreter.

00:49:26.020 --> 00:49:28.539
A young girl was due to be killed

00:49:28.540 --> 00:49:30.668
The British government knew all along with

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Paul part in these fanatics
were doing to these people.

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Mr. Keller hands government
presented a report

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to the United Nations
Commission on Human Rights.

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With information as shocking as
anything you have seen tonight.

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And yet people here are being allowed
to die for one of the simplest things.

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Food drugs transport.

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Because governments including our
own are bent on isolating and

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punishing the Vietnamese and
other words saving Cambodia.

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Would mean cooperating with Vietnam.

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Both the Cambodians and Vietnamese
have told me at the highest level that

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any relief plane can come without
conditions At the time of our filming.

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Three planes had come in nine months

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America and Europe hold most of the
world\'s surplus food we feed it to

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animals in Britain we are treated with penicillin
as a matter of right all of us who made

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this film have never seen
anything like Cambodia

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today the cries of children
are followed us everywhere.

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There are six months to save a nation
of mostly children is that impossible

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Since this film was made more relief
has reached Cambodia from Vietnam.

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The Eastern Bloc countries
Australia Britain\'s

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Oxfam and some other Western
charities and the food situation has

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slightly improved But throughout Cambodia
hunger and disease and trauma widespread.

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Three months ago the Cambodian
government requested

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100 thousand tons of emergency
food as of yesterday

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the total western aid sent
through unicef and the Red

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Cross and mounted to 1300
tons of food effectively.

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That\'s almost nothing and this situation

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is likely to continue as
long as Western governments

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recognize and give international comfort
to Paul part the Asian Hitler. You

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can assume that most of the people you
saw in tonight\'s film and now dead