Ugly History: The Khmer Rouge murders - Timothy Williams
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From 1975 to 1979, the Communist Party of Kampuchea ruled Cambodia with an iron fist, perpetrating a genocide that killed one fourth of the country’s population. Roughly one million people were executed as suspected political enemies or due to their ethnicities, and another million died of starvation, disease, or overwork. How did this happen? Timothy Williams details the rise of the Khmer Rouge.
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Meet The Creators
- Educator
- Timothy Williams
- Director
- Héloïse Dorsan Rachet
- Narrator
- Safia Elhillo
- Music
- Salil Bhayani, cAMP Studio
- Sound Designer
- Nirana Singh, cAMP Studio
