Original report from Park City, Utah
It was curiosity over the killing of his family members under the Khmer Rouge that led journalist Thet Sambath on a personal quest to find the truth. He wanted to know who gave the orders.
His search led him through the hierarchy of the Khmer Rouge, a process that took years of research and interviews with cadre who received orders, undertook the killing, and, finally, to the regime’s top ideologue, Nuon Chea.
Thet Sambath began working with experienced British filmmaker Rob Lemkin in 2006, based on reporting that began in 2000, and eventually earned the trust of Nuon Chea.
The result of the decade-long project became “Enemies of the People,” a documentary that received the World Cinema Special Jury Prize at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival in the
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