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Old Oct 31st, 2007 | 04:01 PM
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S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine

I am 1/2 way through this fascinating documentary.

What is truly frightening about evil is not the evil mastermind dictator or leader, but the common everyman "just following orders" who willingly gives up his humanity and tortures others.

In this, low budget doc, apparently shot with a standard video cam, Toul Sleng survivors come face to face with Toul Sleng torturers.

The former guards descriptions of their routines come off as so mindless banal and casual, yet you have to imagine the agony and terror that the victims were facing.

So far it is riveting to me. I highly recommend it

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Old Nov 5th, 2007 | 04:01 PM
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WOW! I just finished this incredibly powerful documentary and I highly recommend to anyone going to Cambodia or who has been to Cambodia.

To see a torture victim confront his torturers is gripping.

But the most gripping part for me was listening as the torturers showing, at night time how they exectures people at Choung Ek.
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Old Nov 5th, 2007 | 08:08 PM
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Hard to beleive that as many as 17,000 were bought here and only seven survived.
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Old Nov 6th, 2007 | 08:45 AM
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Wayne a little off track but I know you have a passion for Rwanda. Have you seen "Beyond the Gates"? We watched it this weekend. Excellent but as you would imagine totally heart wrenching.
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Old Nov 6th, 2007 | 11:09 AM
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I saw Beyond the Gates, subtitled in the original French. It started as a movie called "Shooting Dogs" which referred to the fact that the UN troops were allowed to shoot the dogs when they were eating dead bodies, but not allowed to shoot the people committing the genocide.

a great movie
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