After the Killing Fields: Lessons from the Cambodian Genocide
This is a movie about the genocide in Cambodia. Millions of people went to their deaths under the Khumer Rouge regime. This movie is about two journalist who are trying to escape Cambodia, one is a native Cambodian Dith Pran the other is an American journalist Sydney Schanberg. Sydney and Dith both work for the New York Times. Dith is waiting for Sydney at the airport but then leaves Sydney then arrives later to find his friend gone. Sydney then heads to the hotel where he meets up with Dith and dith tells him that something big has just happened that an American B-52 accidently went off on a small town. Sydney and Dith sneak on a police boat and make it up to the town that had been bombed. After reaching the town they see devastation and death women and children killed without remorse. Then the two men were arrested because they were trying to get a picture of two men, of Khumer Rouge, who were being executed. After being released and two years later Khmer Rouge Regime is back and they are taking of Cambodia so Sydney has arranged for Dith and his wife and four children to be evacuated Dith decide to stay behind with Sydney to get the coverage of the war. After staying in the capital and the Khumer Rouge takes over they try to take Dith away so Sydney bribes them with money so he can leave and go the embassy to await transport but it never comes and Dith has to be handed over to the Khumer Rouge. Sydney goes back to America and stays in contact with Dith's family. He was able to get a lot of information so Sydney wins an award for all that and says half belongs to Dith. After the dinner Sydney is told that they think he left Dith there on purpose to get all the information on the cities and things and that it was his fault that Dith was still in that country Sydney then thought that it was true and it was all his fault. Meanwhile in Cambodia Dith was taken to a death camp and was forced to work for children who were held in high regard by the Khumer Rouge who thought that it was the future generation. After working for kids he was taken to a different camp where he is to take care of the leader’s son. After the war made it to Dith's camp the leader was killed and his son has a map so they leave and are trying to find their way back to civilization. But one of the people who went with them stepped on a land mine with the child and after begging for the child did not give it up and they both were killed being sad Dith made to a Red Cross spot and was returned to his family.(Criage)