Enemies Of The People The Truth In The Cambodia Killing Fields

Philippines, Dagupan City (September 30, 2010)- "Some say that almost two million people died in the killing fields," declares Thet Sambath, a polite, soft-spoken Cambodian journalist for The Phnom Penh Post, in the opening moments of the documentary "Enemies of the People." He adds, "Nobody understands why so many people were killed at that time."

In ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE the men and women who perpetrated the massacres - from the foot-soldiers who slit throats to the party's ideological leader, Nuon Chea aka Brother Number Two - break a 30-year silence to give testimony never before heard or seen.

"The most harrowing and compelling personal documentaries in the history, Enemies of the People reveals for the first time the truth about the Killing Fields in the Cambodia". This documentary was a winner of a top documentary festival awards, including the Special Jury Prize at Sundance and the Grand Jury Award at the Full Frame Documentary Festival, this is a riveting film that takes audiences as close to witnessing evil as they are ever likely to get.

It seems like an own journey way back into the center of darkness by the journalist Thet Sambath, his family was killed in the Killing Fields. In 1974, Thet Sambath father was became one of the nearly two million people who were murdered by the Khmer Rouge when he refussed to give them his buffalo. Sambath mother was forced to marry Khmer Touge militiaman and died in childbirht in 1976, while his eldest brother disappeared in 1977. Sambath himself escaped Cambodia at age 10 when the Khmer Rouge fell in 1979. This is the one reason why Thet Sambath face his fear and revealed the truth in the cambodia Killing Fields.

After years of visits and trust-building, Sambath finally persuades Brother Number Two to admit (for the first time) in detail how he and Pol Pot (the two supreme powers in the Khmer Rouge state) set out to kill party members whom they considered 'Enemies of the People'. But Sambath's remarkable work goes one stage further: over the years he befriends a network of killers in the provinces who implemented the kill policy. For the first time, we see how orders created on an abstract political level translate into foul murder in the rice fields and forests of the Cambodian plain.

For the journalist Thet Sambath, it has been an ongoing, lifelong personal journey to discover what was such horror for; in change of the documentary he neglected both his family and his own happiness in the search for truth with hope of reconciliation.

ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE is at once a cinematically beautiful, chillingly insightful, and deeply personal piece of documentary filmmaking which reveals the truth that never been heard and seen.