the killing fields

     

The Killing Fiels were a number of sites in Cambodia where large numbers of people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge regime, during its rule of the country from 1975 to 1979. At least 200,000 people were executed by the Khmer Rouge (while estimates of the total number of deaths resulting from Khmer Rouge policies, including disease and starvation, range from 1.4 to 2.2 million out of a population of around 7 million). In 1979 Vietnam invaded the country, which at that time was officially called Democratic Kampuchea, and toppled the Khmer Rouge regime.

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  • Physician Haing S. Ngor won the "Best Supporting Actor" Oscar for this, his first film
  • Sydney Schanberg's magazine article "The Death & Life of Dith Pran" lived on to become this film
  • This 1984 movie recounted the friendship of an American journalist & a translator in war-torn Cambodia
  • This '84 film about the horrors of the Khmer Rouge was finally shown in a Cambodian theater in 1989
  • (Hi, I'm Sam Waterston) I earned an Oscar nomination for playing NY Times reporter Sydney Schanberg in this film set in war-torn Cambodia
  • Spalding Gray relates his experiences making this 1984 film in 1987's "Swimming To Cambodia"
  • The first Asian to win an acting Oscar was Haing Ngor, Best Supporting Actor for this 1984 film
  • No. 100 is this Roland Joffe-directed film set in Cambodia & starring Sam Waterston
  • This 1984 Oscar-winning film brought the genocidal horrors of Pol Pot & his regime to the eyes of the world

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