My Cambodia
In 1975, with the flames of civil war advancing toward Cambodias capital city, a young refugee named Khatharya Um fled the country on the eve of its takeover by the Khmer Rouge. In the four years that followed, an estimated two million peopleabout 25 percent of Cambodias populationdied from disease, starvation, forced labor, imprisonment, and execution. My Cambodia follows Khatharya Umnow a professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeleynearly 40 years after her escape as she travels back to Cambodia and explains both the genocides history and its profound legacies.
Its very difficult for many of us Cambodians. Those memories dont go away冰ut it is important to share the story, because the worst that could happen is that no one remembers this.
Prof. Khatharya Um
My Cambodia is one of two films explored in the Teachers Guide (free download). Total run time: 17 minutes, 14 seconds.
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