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TV Interviewer:
How do you respond to accusations that you and other journalists underestimated the brutality of the Khmer Rouge and so share responsibility for what happened in Cambodia afterwards? Sydney Schanberg:
We made a mistake. Maybe what we underestimated was the kind of insanity that $7 billion worth of bombing could produce
How do you respond to accusations that you and other journalists underestimated the brutality of the Khmer Rouge and so share responsibility for what happened in Cambodia afterwards? Sydney Schanberg:
We made a mistake. Maybe what we underestimated was the kind of insanity that $7 billion worth of bombing could produce
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How do you respond to accusations that journalists
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underestimated the brutality of the Khmer Rouge
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and so share responsibility for what happened in Cambodia afterwards
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We made a mistake
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Maybe we underestimated the kind of insanity
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that 7 billion worth of bombing could produce
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Movie 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.
