In 1975-79, almost two million Cambodians lost their lives to murder and famine when the Khmer Rouge forced the urban population into the countryside to fulfill their ideal of an agrarian utopia. The notorious detention center code-named 'S21' was the schoolhouse-turned prison where 17,000 men, women and children were tortured, interrogated and executed, their "crimes" meticulously documented to justify their execution.
In this award-winning documentary and astonishing historical document, Rithy Panh and his team undertook a three year investigation involving not only the survivors, but also their former torturers. They persuaded both groups to return to the actual site of what was formerly S21, now converted into a Genocide Museum, to face their past. One survivor, Vann Nath confronts his captors, some of whom were as young as 12 years old when they committed their atrocities.
Human Rights Watch, widely regarded as one of the most influential and important human rights organizations in the world, and First Run Features, which for 25 years has distributed films that confront human rights issues, formed a collaboration to bring awareness to films that shed light on human rights abuses throughout the world. S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine is the first title in the HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH SELECTS DVD series.
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{Winner! International Human Rights Award, Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema 2004}
{Winner! François Chalais Award, Cannes Film Festival 2003}
{Winner! Gold Plaque, Best Documentary, Chicago International Film Festival 2003}
"Wounds That Never Heal" - In the mid 1960's thousands of young American men left their families, homes and jobs and went to fight for their country in Southeast Asia. Many of them never returned. Others were shot down and captured behind enemy lines. They were forced to suffer years of brutal treatment at the hands of the Communist captors. In the opinions of this political affiliation, their horrifying days of darkness, starvation and torture were made worse by the actions of a young American Officer named John Kerry.
Excellent documentary exposing Ho Chi Minh for the genocidal communist he was. Especially from the 5th part of the playlist and onward, interesting details around Ho Chi Minh´s role in the killing of vietnamese patriots and christians and collaboration with the french colonial power to this end in the 50s. The documentary also shes light on the brutal landreforms and public execution of specific percentages of the villagers as "class enemies".
The nightmare of the tet massacres and the massive persecution of christians and patriotic separatists is also highlighted, although only in passing.
Highly Recommended!
To set the tone, before delving into this time-window, let me quote some testimony from the Black Book of Communism, giving evidence to the fact that not only were concentration camps common in Northern Vietnam already in the 50s, they remained in place until around 1986. That means that all those years where the hippies were surfing the hedonist wave of "anti-war protests", hundreds of thousands of especially christian vietnamese were kept in concentration camps for being "bourgouis" or "collaborating" with the free world.
The fate bestowed upon these poor innocent people, captured often at random from every single village and tugged away in tiny dark rooms for years on end, if not tortured or starved to death - along with the socialist genocide in cambodia - will forever rest on the conscience of the politicised hedonists of the 70s "fighting for their right to party".
From the Black Book of Communism pp.573 A letter from the prisoners of vietnamese concentration camps 1977.
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To be honest it simply breaks my heart to see these brave patriots left clueless, as to why they found themselves betrayed and scorned by the very countrymen who weren´t brave enough to go over and fight for freedom and democracy themselves. But how could they have known, that the enemy had conducted a highly succesful all-encompassing PSY-WAR on their homefront for 20 years? A multipronged campaign involving infiltration of all the relevant educational facilities, media and party political institutions; and a veritable drug-fest, putting a whole generation on halucinogens while agitating pacifism into their sleepy ears already busy following the weird pavlovian confusions called "psychedelic rock".
To set the tone, before delving into this time-window, let me quote some testimony from the Black Book of Communism, giving evidence to the fact that not only were concentration camps common in Northern Vietnam already in the 50s, they remained in place until around 1986. That means that all those years where the hippies were surfing the hedonist wave of "anti-war protests", hundreds of thousands of especially christian vietnamese were kept in concentration camps for being "bourgouis" or "collaborating" with the free world.
The fate bestowed upon these poor innocent people, captured often at random from every single village and tugged away in tiny dark rooms for years on end, if not tortured or starved to death - along with the socialist genocide in cambodia - will forever rest on the filthy conscience of the stupid politicised hedonists of the 70s "fighting for their right to party"
From the Black Book of Communism pp.573 A letter from the prisoners of vietnamese concentration camps 1977.
Vietnam War, "The Impact of Media" explores in detail the 'media distortions' due to television's misrepresentations during the Vietnam War. It rebuts the view promoted by PBS's 13-part documentary series, "Vietnam: A Television History". The rebuttal also applies to "The Ten Thousand Day War" series. "The Impact of Media" is a must-see for historians and politicians alike. The late president Ronald Reagan lauded this rebuttal video when he watched it and said that it's "something all Americans should see". Made in 1984.
Vietnam War: The Real Story - 57:14 - Jun 14, 2007
Vietnam War History
Vietnam War, "The Real Story" rebuts the view promoted by the 13-part documentary series, "Vietnam: A Television History" (made by PBS). The...all » Vietnam War, "The Real Story" rebuts the view promoted by the 13-part documentary series, "Vietnam: A Television History" (made by PBS). The rebuttal also applies to "The Ten Thousand Day War" documentary series. Participants: Archimedes Patti, John McCain, Edward Lansdale, Elbridge Durbrow, etc. "The Real Story" is a must-see for historians and politicians alike. Made in 1984