Cambodia. To many westerners it seemed a paradise. Another world, a secret world. But the...
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Sydney Schanberg:
Cambodia. To many westerners it seemed a paradise. Another world, a secret world. But the war in neighboring Vietnam burst its borders, and the fighting soon spread to neutral Cambodia. In 1973 I went to cover this side-show struggle as a foreign correspondent of the New York Times. It was there, in the war-torn country side amidst the fighting between government troops and the Khmer Rouge guerrillas, that I met my guide and interpreter, Dith Pran, a man who was to change my life in a country I grew to love and pity.
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To many Westerners it seemed a paradise
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Another world a secret world
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But the war in neighboring Vietnam burst its borders
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and the fighting soon spread to neutral Cambodia
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In 1973 I went to cover this sideshow struggle
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as foreign correspondent of The New York Times
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It was there amidst the fighting
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between government troops and the Khmer Rouge guerrillas
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that I met my guide and interpreter Dith Pran
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a man who was to change my life
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in a country that I grew to love and pity
Clip duration: 43 seconds
Views: 259
Timestamp in movie: 00h 00m 34s
Uploaded: 25 November, 2022
Genres: drama, history, war
Summary: The real-life story of a friendship between two journalists, an American and a Cambodian, during the bloody Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia in 1975, which led to the death of 2-3 million Cambodians during the next four years, until Pol Pot's regime was toppled by the intervening Vietnamese in 1979.
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01:54 They tell us that God is dead
00:17 That's a rumor
00:08 They brought in the whole fucking press corps
00:06 Someone told me they shrink with fright when you cook them
00:08 That won't stop my story
00:31 I got a story to get to New York
00:12 President Ford
00:20 I don't like the look of this
00:06 Why do corpses have to pile up before people decide...
00:59 Dith Pran
00:25 Is your mother there
00:06 I love this country
00:06 We must try to stop the killing
00:13 No more fighting
00:53 So here we go with Voice of America
00:43 Pran's not gonna last five minutes out there
00:21 Anything I eat's gotta be absolutely dead
01:02 They tell us that God is dead
00:13 Look there could be a bloodbath here
00:11 Life isn't a '40s movie