Filmmaker tracks Khmer Rouge killers to learn the truth. - Polidicks

[quote=Phnom Penh, Cambodia (CNN)]"I come back here to where I killed people. And I feel terrible. My mind, my soul, my body is spinning inside. All the things I did are flashing through my mind."[/quote] [release]So declares a man sitting alongside a field named Suon, identified as a former Khmer Rouge militia commander who shows how he slit people's throats and talks about drinking gall bladder bile in the documentary, "Enemies of the People." The film had its premiere in Asia just ahead of the first verdict to be handed down by the Cambodian genocide tribunal on Monday. At least 1.7 million people -- nearly a quarter of Cambodia's population -- died under the 1975-1979 Khmer Rouge from execution, disease, starvation and overwork, according to the Documentation Center of [URL="http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/Cambodia"]Cambodia[/URL]. Four of the ultra-Maoist regime's former leaders are waiting to see if they will stand trial before a U.N.-backed tribunal for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch, the head of the infamous torture prison in the country's capital of Phnom Penh, has stood trial on charges including crimes against humanity. The verdict will be announced in his case on Monday, more than 30 years after the fall of the regime. In the film, directed and produced by Cambodian Teth Sambath and Briton Rob Lemkin, Teth tracks down about 100 former Khmer Rouge fighters who were responsible for the killing to learn why they participated.[/release] This is my first try at a news thread, so if I forgot something, really sorry :ohdear:. [editline]07:41PM[/editline] Oh, right, I did forget something, here's the source: [url]http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/07/25/cambodia.khmer.rouge.filmmaker/index.html?hpt=C1#fbid=P6rEbEuIEqb[/url]

He drank bile!? :wtc:

[QUOTE=Jimmg;23610979]He drank bile!? :wtc:[/QUOTE] Sure beats the tapwater down there... EDIT: That was abit insensitive, wasn't it? :ohdear:

At least this guy feels remorseful. What I can never forgive Pol Pot is that he killed the intellectuals. And everyone who was wearing glasses. Probably because I fit in both categories.

[QUOTE=Yoga;23614999]At least this guy feels remorseful. What I can never forgive Pol Pot is that he killed the intellectuals. And everyone who was wearing glasses. Probably because I fit in both categories.[/QUOTE] Yeah, it's almost as if he switched souls with a highschool jock...

now that's fucked up.

What's wrong with people, how can anyone do that...

I saw a documentary on HBO a while back. It was about a photographer for the Khmer Rouge. What he would do was take pictures of the people about to be killed in a converted high school.

[QUOTE=RBM11;23615842]I saw a documentary on HBO a while back. It was about a photographer for the Khmer Rouge. What he would do was take pictures of the people about to be killed in a converted high school.[/QUOTE] Well, clearly, I mean, if you're killing nerds, why not do it on their regular torture grounds?

Why exactly did he kill all of the intelligent people in his country? How could that seem like a good idea?

[QUOTE=bobsmit;23618110]Why exactly did he kill all of the intelligent people in his country? How could that seem like a good idea?[/QUOTE] It wasn't. He was batshit crazy.

[QUOTE=bobsmit;23618110]Why exactly did he kill all of the intelligent people in his country? How could that seem like a good idea?[/QUOTE] I remember reading that while in the communist party of France he began to hate all the intellectuals in the party because none of them took him seriously or something. [editline]02:11PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Yoga;23618274]It wasn't. He was batshit crazy.[/QUOTE] and this [editline]02:14PM[/editline] [IMG]http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/f5/74/77f3729fd7a0d7153083d010.L._SL500_AA300_.jpg[/IMG] Interesting book you guys should read, it's about the author's life before, during and after the Khmer Rouge years. It really puts things in perspective.

It's pretty sad how little most of the population knows about the whole Khmer Rouge ordeal. Hopefully the documentary is popular. Crazy bastard.

[QUOTE=Vinze;23617898]Well, clearly, I mean, if you're killing nerds, why not do it on their regular torture grounds?[/QUOTE] lol

[QUOTE=bobsmit;23618110]Why exactly did he kill all of the intelligent people in his country? How could that seem like a good idea?[/QUOTE] [I]Well, [/I]he was tortured by nerds when he was in school. And intelligent people are the most dangerous in war.

[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;23618930][I]One thing[/I], he was tortured by nerds when he was in school. And intelligent people are the most dangerous in war.[/QUOTE] That's two things...

[QUOTE=Vinze;23619597]That's two things...[/QUOTE] Or [I]is it?[/I] But I didn't even realized I typed that. [editline]03:24PM[/editline] Fix'd.

I read that Pol Pot was a nice guy in person

[QUOTE=jaredop;23621008]I read that Pol Pot was a nice guy in person[/QUOTE] Pfft, he was nothing more than a pothead... :rimshot: