cambodia

An exploration of Angkor, a temple city in Cambodia, presenting its spiritual representations and its highly relevant evocation of the history of empires.

Teenager Chelsea Halloway can handle any situation in her life, but her life is changed when her parents send her to a study abroad trip to Cambodia.

Genocide was a tactic specifically chosen by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia to annihilate certain ethnic and religious groups. In Ethiopia it was used to terrorize and justify political killings.

The end of the Vietman War saw the rise of the Khmer Rouge in 1975 which caused a closing of the Cambodian border and a systematic reorganization of Cambodian society. Everyone was sent from the towns and cities to the countryside where they were forced to labor endlessly in the fields and the intelligentsia were brutally exterminated. Torture, terror, and death became routine. Almost two million people ( a quarter of the population) were killed.

Nobel Prize winning reporter Joel Brinkley illuminates the country, its people, and the deep historical roots of its modern-day behavior.

Ronnie Yimsut is now a senior landscape architect for the USDA Forest Service and he and his family reside in Greenfield, Wisconsin.

Huon Chon is the top Khmer Rouge leader still living. Interviews with him follow his journey as a dedicated freedom fighter who became a killer accused of crimes against humanity. Chea was Pol Pot's top lieutenant and is now in prison, facing prosecution in a United Nations-Cambodian tribunal for his actions during the Khmer Rouge rule, when more than two million Cambodians died in the Killing Fields.

Richard Heinzl recounts the experiences he had while spending a year in Cambodia offering medical help to the country's poorest residents and earning his credentials in order to set up a Canadian chapter of Doctors Without Borders.

A memoir in which the author discusses her experiences as a child living in Cambodia under the brutal Khmer Rouge, and tells of the hardships her family experienced until being brought to the United States by an uncle who was living in Oregon.