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Thirty years ago, Communist Cambodian leader Pol Pot set about establishing a nation of people living to serve the state. He insisted that anything private, right down to his subjects' thoughts and emotions, were immoral. When Pol Pot's plan to increase rice production failed, he declared it was due to enemies within the party. Thus began the purge of some of Pol Pot's most devoted followers and their families. Almost two million people were brutally tortured and executed in the killing fields of Cambodia, a quarter of the country's population in less than four years. Exceptional for a revealing interview with Nuon Chea ("Brother Number Two"), the former deputy to Pol Pot who admitted partial responsibility and expressed willingness to go before a United Nations tribunal to be questioned, this British Documentary Award nominee was noted for its interviews of both survivors and former leaders within the Khmer Rouge.
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