INSIDE POL POT'S SECRET PRISON
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Artist: Artist Not ProvidedDVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
DVD Release Date: 2002-04-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E Home Video
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DVD Review: A different perspective
Summary: 5 Stars
I did not get a chance to see "Inside Pol Pot's Secret Prison" when it first aired. When I saw this on Amazon, I had to get it. I am fascinated by the killing fields in Cambodia, because it is so difficult for me to understand how such a thing could happen. Most of the stories I've read are accounts by survivors. What I was most interested in are accounts by the Khmer Rouge members themselves, because many of them were so young.
"Inside Pol Pot's Secret Prison" was the first time I've ever seen any interviews with former Khmer Rouge members. How did they become members? What did they think when they were there? How do they feel now?
The Khmer Rouge guards were forced, like the child soldiers in Africa -- do what they are told or they would be next. I am not sure if I could fault them. The fear was immense, especially for a child watching the horrors before them. However, it bothers me that they appear to have no remorse, no guilt. Maybe internally, they do. Maybe they suppress it, lest it be too difficult to live with themselves. Maybe participating in the tortures and killings made them numb.
Also included in the documentary are film clips of the secret prison just after the fall of Cambodia to Vietnam. It was a place of torture, where the Khmer Rouge extracted confessions and then murdered the victims. There were photos of the victims, skeletons everywhere, drawings of the tortures.
Survivors of the prison were interviewed. Each had his own horrific story. No human should have to endure what they did.
The documentary was well done. It focuses mostly on the condition in the prison and not so much the work conditions and lives of the people working in the fields. Given such few survivors, the prison tales are the least often told. "Inside Pol Pot's Secret Prison" gives the viewer a fresh perspective on the Khmer Rouge and the killing fields.
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Description of INSIDE POL POT'S SECRET PRISON
Led by a former schoolteacher named Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge regime killed between 15 and 40 percent of the Cambodian population in a brutal attempt to transform the nation into a classless society. At the heart of this orchestrated campaign of terror was a death camp known by the code name S-21. Untold thousands of prisoners entered S-21. Only seven escaped alive.INSIDE POL POT'S SECRET PRISON is a harrowing look at one of the most purely evil institutions of the 20th century. Riveting interviews with former guards, executioners and two survivors paint a picture of the unspeakable horrors that were commonplace at S-21. The incredibly detailed prison archives open a window into the Khmer Rouge's program of genocide, raising the question of why no one has been prosecuted so far for the crimes against humanity committed in Cambodia.INSIDE POL POT'S SECRET PRISON also includes an interview with journalist Nate Thayer, who interviewed the ailing former dictator just months before his death.This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.
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