Delve Deeper into Enemies of the People A film by Rob Lemkin & Thet Sambath

This resource list, compiled by eyewitness accounts of life in Understanding Genocide in the Paul A. Bareño of the San Diego Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge 21 st Century Public Library, includes books, Regime from 1975 to 1979, as told films and other materials by survivors who were children at Hinton, Alexander Laban. Why related to the issues presented the time. Did They Kill?: Cambodia in the in the film Enemies of the Shadow of Genocide. Berkeley: People . Dunlop, Nic. The Lost University of California Press, Executioner: A Journey to the 2005 . Hinton’s book focuses on the The Khmer Rouge slaughtered nearly Heart of Fields. New devastation under the Khmer Rouge two million people in the late 1970s. Yet York: Walker & Co., 2006. A that took place in Cambodia from the Killing Fields of Cambodia remain photojournalist long based in April 1975 to January 1979. This largely unexplained. Until now. Enter Southeast Asia, the author seeks to book stands out as one of the first Thet Sambath, an unassuming, yet answer how Comrade Duch’s life anthropological attempts to cunning, investigative journalist who lost evolved to that of prison understand the origins of genocide. his family in the conflict and spends a commandant of the Khmer Rouge’s decade gaining the trust of the men and prison S-21 where an estimated Jones, Adam. Genocide: A women who perpetrated the massacres. 20,000 political prisoners were Comprehensive Introduction. From the foot soldiers who slit throats to nd Pol Pot's right-hand man, the notorious executed. 2 ed. New York: Routledge, Brother Number Two, Sambath and co- 2010. Not just a text for college director Rob Lemkin record shocking Paterniti, Michael. "Never students, this work is indispensable testimony never before seen or heard, in Forget"[Security Prison 21 in for anyone looking to understand Enemies of the People. Cambodia]. GQ - Gentlemen's the seemingly incomprehensible act Quarterly, Aug. 2009, p. 122. of genocide. This article provides an historical ADULT NONFICTION overview of the Khmer Rouge, with Kiernan, Ben. Blood and Soil: A

a focus on the infamous Security World History of Genocide and Pol Pot, Nuon Chea & The Khmer Prison 21 in Phnom Penh and Extermination from Sparta to Rouge Regime subsequent trial of Comrade Duch. Darfur. New Haven: Yale

University Press, 2007. Ben Chandler, David P. Brother Short, Philip. Pol Pot: Anatomy Kiernan has been involved in the Number One: A Political of a Nightmare. New York: study of genocide and crimes Biography of Pol Pot . Boulder, Henry Holt, 2005. This book is the against humanity for over thirty Colo.: Westview Press, 1992. result of Philip Short’s investigations years and is professor of History Through interviews and a wide of the Pol Pot regime and the and founding director of the range of international sources, Khmer Rouge. Short has also Genocide Studies Program at Yale David Chandler provides an incisive authored Mao: A Life (2000). University. In this book, Kiernan look at the horrific and terrifying delves into the historical records of Khmer Rouge Regime through this Roots of the Cambodia-Vietnam genocide and mass outbreaks of biography of its most notorious Conflict violence, from the Armenian leader, Pol Pot. genocide, to the Holocaust, Stalin’s

Chandler, David. A History of mass murders, and the Cambodian Chandler, David P. Voices from Cambodia. Boulder, Colo.: and Rwandan genocides. S-21: Terror and History in Pol Westview Press, 2007. (4 th ed.) Pot's Secret Prison . Berkeley: This latest edition, revised and Kiernan, Ben. The Pol Pot University of California Press, updated, includes a look at current Regime: Race, Power, and 1999. S-21 was the Khmer Rouge challenges facing Cambodia. The Genocide in Cambodia under the secret prison housed at a former author has been a scholar and Khmer Rouge, 1975-79. New high school in Phnom Penh. specialist on Cambodian affairs for Haven: Yale University Press, Chandler studied the records well over four decades. 1996. "I first visited Cambodia in discovered there and interviewed 1975," Ben Kiernan writes. "None of survivors of the camp. Corfield, Justin J. The History of the Cambodians I knew then

Cambodia. Santa Barbara, Calif.: survived the next four years." In Chon, Gina and Sambath Thet. Greenwood Press, 2009. This this book Kiernan uses interviews Behind the Killing Fields: A book overviews the history of from both survivors and Khmer Khmer Rouge Leader and One of Cambodia, from the fall of Angkor Rouge political prisoners to portray His Victims . Philadelphia: and the French Protectorate period and analyze the horrific genocide in University of Pennsylvania (1432-1863) to the present. More Cambodia in the 1970s. Press, 2010. This book is based on than half of the book is dedicated to Thet Sambath’s interviews with the period from 1970 through the Khmer Rouge leader, Nuon Chea, present. Valentino, Benjamin A. Final the major subject of Sambath’s Solutions: Mass Killing and documentary film, Enemies of the Tully, John A. A Short History of Genocide in the Twentieth People . Sambath’s coauthor, Gina Cambodia: From Empire to Century. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Chon, is a reporter for the Wall Survival. Crows Nest, N.S.W.: University Press, 2004. This book Street Journal . Allen & Unwin, 2005. This book is explores new theories behind the

a great resource for students as impetus for genocide. Benjamin Dith Pran, Children of well as general readers, and Valentino is an Associate Professor Cambodia's Killing Fields: provides a further reading section of Government at Dartmouth Memoirs by Survivors . New to delve deeper into the history of College. Haven: Yale University Press, Cambodia. 1997. This book provides

Delve Deeper into Enemies of the People A film by Rob Lemkin & Thet Sambath

Cambodia Today: Remorse, Chai, May-Lee. Dragon Chica . Reconciliation & Forgiveness Partridge, Larry. The Kindred GemmaMedia, 27 Oct. 2010. This Spirits: Dying to Live . is a coming-of-age novel about 11- Brady, Brendan. “History is CreateSpace, 8 Jan. 2010. In the year-old Nea, who survived the Sensitive Subject at Schools in midst of the Khmer Rouge Regime, Khmer Rouge with her mother, Former Khmer Rouge an American flying a relief older sister, and younger siblings. Stronghold.” Los Angeles Times, mission to the orphans in Cambodia Though they have made a home in 10 December 2010, p. A.9. The chooses to deliberately crash his Texas, the family is now leaving to northwest border region of plane to avoid killing. The pilot then go to Nebraska and work in the Cambodia remained under control meets Apsara, a Buddhist guardian Chinese restaurant owned by Nea’s of Khmer Rouge leaders and militias angel who offers him an unexpected auntie and uncle. Set in the 1980s, for two decades after 1979. As a gift for his sacrifice. Nea, who is both Cambodian and result, teachers there today Chinese must face the realities of struggle to teach students about Schneberg, Willa. Storytelling in poverty and racism. Khmer Rouge atrocities. Cambodia. Corvallis, OR: CALYX Books, 1 Sept. 2006. A moving Crew, Linda. Children of the Brinkley, Joel. Cambodia's book of poetry that viscerally River. Laurel Leaf, 1 Aug. 1991. Curse: the Modern History of a depicts life in Cambodia, from its After fleeing from the deadly Troubled Land. New York: ancient myths, to the killing fields, Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, 17 PublicAffairs, 2011. The author to the U.N’s presence during year-old Sundra is now a refugee won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting Cambodia’s first free elections living in Oregon. This book follows in Cambodia on the fall of the her daily struggles as a teenager Khmer Rouge Regime. These are his NON-FICTION FOR YOUNG living in a foreign culture. observations and opinions of READERS present-day Cambodia. FILMS/DOCUMENTARIES Keat, Nawuth and Kendall, About Enemies of the People Martha. Alive in the Killing The Killing Fields . DVD. Fields: Surviving the Khmer Produced by David Puttnam. Holden, Stephen. “From the Rouge Genocide. National Directed by Roland Joffé. Killing Fields, On a Mission of Geographic Children’s Books, 13 Warner Home Video, 2001, Truth.” New York Times, 30 July Oct. 2009. This real-life memoir c1984. This 1984 film is an 2010, p. C.9. Stephen Holden, a tells the story of a young Nawuth adaptation of a January 1980 New film critic at the New York Times, Keat, who survives the Khmer York Times Magazine article by offers insight into Enemies of the Rouge Regime against all odds, but Times reporter, Sydney Schanberg, People in his review of the film. loses his parents and younger who covered the Cambodian civil sister. With his surviving relatives, war from 1972 to 1975. Dith Pran Roasa, Dustin. “Cambodians' Keat is captured and enslaved by was Schanberg’s Cambodian Own Hard Look; Two New Khmer Rouge soldiers. Keat and his assistant who was imprisoned and Movies in the Nation's Inaugural family’s strength and family bonds tortured by the Khmer Rouge from Film Fest Deal with the Khmer are inspiring themes in this story of 1975 until his escape from Rouge Horror.” Los Angeles survival amidst genocide. Cambodia in 1979. Times, 28 November 2010, p. D.10. The inaugural Cambodia Lord, Michelle. A Song for Investigative Reports: Return to International Film Festival features Cambodia. Lee & Low Books, 30 the Killing Fields. DVD. two films that focus on the Khmer Mar. 2008. This is the incredible Produced by Kurtis Productions Rouge Regime of 1975-1979: the true story of Arn Chorn-Pond who and A&E Television Network, 26 documentary, Enemies of the was just nine-years old when the Sept. 2000. Part of the A&E People , and Lost Loves , a story Khmer Rouge invaded his village in Investigative Report Series, Bill about the experiences of one 1975 and took him to a children’s Kurtis delves into the Cambodian family. Both directors are self- work camp. Arn learns to survive by conflict from 1975-1979, examining taught and were boys during the entertaining the guards with the its roots, causes, and who is trauma of the Khmer Rouge. khim, a traditional Cambodian responsible. Kurtis travels to musical instrument. modern-day Cambodia to retell the ADULT FICTION devastating crimes that took place FICTION FOR YOUNG READERS during the genocide, with interviews Echlin, Kim. The Disappeared . from witnesses and survivors. New York: Black Cat, 29 Dec. Smith, Icy. Half Spoon of Rice . 2009. Anne Greves is a 16 year old East West Discovery Press, 1 Small Voices: The Stories of student living in Montreal when she Jan. 2010. Based on accounts from Cambodia’s Children. DVD. meets Serey, a Cambodian refugee, survivors, nine-year old Nat Produced and Directed by and falls deeply in love. When Serey narrates the story of he and his Heather E. Connell. Displaced disappears and is still after family’s struggle for survival during Yankee Productions. 2008. This 11 years, Anne decides to go to the Cambodian Genocide. Nat is film follows five children growing up Phom Penh to find him. In her eventually separated from his in the aftermath left by the Khmer search she confronts the horrors of family and forced to labor in the Rouge Regime, even decades later. the Khmer Rouge and the hardships fields. Along the way he makes The film explores the reality of their of a country struggling to recover friends with a young girl names day-to-day lives as they struggle to from genocide. Malis and together they search for survive extreme poverty and work their families. to achieve their dream of getting an

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