Please join the Human Rights Program at the University of Minnesota in a discussion with the Director/Producer of the award-winning documentary, Enemies of the People, Thursday, November 11 from 3:30 to 5:00 pm in Room 614 Social Sciences, University of Minnesota.
Enemies of the People Director/Producer Rob Lemkin will join Patricia
Hampl, award-winning author and U of Minnesota Regents Professor of
Creative Writing, to discuss documenting human rights violations
through film and writing. Short clips from the documentary will be
shown.
Also join them at 7:00 pm for the Twin Cities premiere of Enemies of
the People at St. Anthony Main Theater, 115 Main Street, SE,
Minneapolis, MN 55414. Discussion following the premiere with
Director, Rob Lemkin, Cambodian refugee and U of M graduate, Vuth
Chhunn, and Human Rights Program Director, Barbara Frey. $8 students
$10 adults. For more info, click here.
About the Film
Enemies of the People turn the camera onto Nuon Chea aka Brother
Number Two, the highest ranking Khmer Rouge leader still alive today.
The Khmer Rouge was one of the twentieth century's most brutal
regimes. While in power, the Khmer Rouge was responsible for the
deaths of approximately 1.7 million people by execution, starvation
and forced labor in camps that were later described as the Killing
Fields.
In the film, one of Cambodia's best investigative journalists, Thet
Sambath, persuades Nuon Chea to admit, for the first time, how he and
Pol Pot (the two supreme powers in the Khmer Rouge state) decided to
kill party members whom they considered 'Enemies of the People'. The
mystery of the Killing Fields is unveiled as the men and women who
perpetrated the massacres break a 30-year silence to give testimony
never before seen or heard.
Enemies of the People is being screened as part of the Minneapolis-St.
Paul Asian Film Festival sponsored by the Minnesota Film Arts Event
sponsored by the Human Rights Program at the University of Minnesota
and the Program in Human Rights, Center for Holocaust and Genocide
Studies at the University of Minnesota and Humanitarianism at
Macalester College.
For more information about the Cambodian Genocide please visit our
links page.
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Jodi Elowitz
Outreach Coordinator
Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies
768 Social Sciences Building
267 19th Ave. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55455
612-626-2470
elow0001@umn.edu
www.chgs.umn.edu/
