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"Beneath The Killing Fields: In Pursuit of the Truth"
Screening of Thet Sambath's Enemies of the People and Panel Discussion.
For up-to-date information, visit http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/beneath-killing-fields...
Panel:
Thet Sambath, 2013-14 Harvard Scholars at Risk Fellow.
Christopher Decherd, Voice of America Khmer Service Chief.
Gregory H. Stanton, Founder and President of Genocide Watch; Founder and Director of the Cambodian Genocide Project.
Moderator:
Homi Bhabha, Director, the Mahindra Humanities Center; Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University.
Co-sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard Scholars At Risk, The Film Study Center at Harvard, and the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University.
During the Khmer Rouge period nearly two million people were massacred; however, even with the Tribunal coming to an end, the Killing Fields of Cambodia have largely remained a mystery. Journalist Thet Sambath, who lost his father, mother, and brother in the conflict, spent ten years gaining the trust of men and women who participated in the mass killings, conducting interviews with those at the bottom in the chain of command and reaching, in his pursuit of answers, all the way up to the notorious Brother Number Two and chief ideologue, Nuon Chea. In his decade-long process of unearthing the facts behind the genocide, Thet, gracious and unassuming, worked to get below the apparently impenetrable surfaces of ignorance and denial. Enemies of the People, written directed, filmed, and produced by Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath, seeks answers and exposes testimony, including graphic demonstrations of heinous acts, never before seen or heard. Winner of the Sundance Special Jury Prize, World Documentary; Full Frame Film Festival, Grand Jury Award; Hong Kong Film Festival, Outstanding Documentary; British Independent Film Award, Best Documentary; Jerusalem Film Festival, “In Spirit for Freedom Award”; Ojai Film Festival, Best Documentary Feature; and Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Journalism (Long Form).
