@article{1355712,
      recid = {1355712},
      author = {Gottschau, Jakob.},
      title = {Cambodia land of silence / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Filmakers Library,},
      address = {New York, NY :},
      pages = {1 online resource (29 min.).},
      year = {2004},
      note = {Title from resource description page (viewed Sept. 1,  2011).},
      abstract = {In the mid-1970s, Cambodia was the victim of a brutal  genocide, when the communist Pol Pot regime exterminated  every fifth inhabitant. In less than four years, hundreds  of thousands were murdered, and over a million died as a  result of starvation and disease. We hear from those who  lost their families as well as from former guards who  perpetrated the crimes. A guard who beat prisoners claims  he was forced to commit torture; the alternative would have  been his own murder. He feels terribly guilty now and has  confessed to his family. Sorya Sim of the Documentation  Centre says "The purpose of documenting is justice and  memory." The Centre collects material to prosecute the  Khmer Rouge and to educate the younger generation about the  events. Recently, a peace treaty paved the way for the  first real evaluation of the Pol Pot regime - and perhaps  for reconciliation. This process is difficult in a country  like Cambodia, where it is seen as "wrong" to talk  negatively about the past. The Institute for Social  Development organized several peace marches and four  reconciliation meetings and at one of these, a number of  Khmer Rouge leaders apologized. For many people, and for  the media, saying "I am sorry" was not enough. Kassie Neou  of Cambodia's Institute for Human Rights, believes the  peace marches promote the possibility of "... living  together in understanding, and that way people can focus on  harmonious ways of living." But many carry mental and  physical wounds, too fearful to speak out about the  atrocities of that tragic time.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1355712},
}