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Nov. 22 - Nov. 28, 2002

By Sophia Hanifah
Special to AsianWeek

On Halloween, the Bay Area’s public television channel KQED aired “Cambodia: Pol Pot’s Shadow,” as a segment of the premier episode of Frontline World. It was a fitting day for the program, which related some of the most terrifying history of the 20th century.

The segment opens with a clip of the 1969 U.S. carpet-bombing in Cambodia: black smoke rises while orange flames incinerate the countryside. The four-year bombing campaign began a catastrophic time for Cambodia. But far from the lingering ghosts of the past, filmmaker Amanda Pike used that time as a launching period for her story and travelled to Cambodia to witness the present situation. The subject stirred her interest in 1997, when she watched television coverage about Pol Pot’s regime resurfacing in the middle of the jungle for the first time since 1979.

“It grabbed my curiosity and I decided to pursue it,” she told AsianWeek...

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