“In the first hours of the #KhmerRouge entering #PhnomPenh, there was celebration, everyone running around and waving #flags. It looked like it was going to be peaceful. But soon we began to hear disturbing news from other parts of the city that they were telling people to get out of their houses and go into the countryside for the agrarian #revolution.”
Seeing the film in ‘85 it would never occur to me I’d actually work with a survivor of the Killing Fields & Pol Pot.
“The Killing Fields”, 1985 / #SydneySchanberg / #DithPran <https://www.historynet.com/interview-sydney-schanberg-author-of-beyond-the-killing-fields> / <https://archive.nytimes.com/kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/dith-pran-rip/>
