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The Trailer for the first ever Bokator movie has been released.
By Dante Scott
“Before there was Muay Thai, there was Bokator”
The trailer for the new film about Khmer Bokator has just been released and is available for free on youtube.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vb8f0K9Jdyg
The ancient Cambodians didn’t leave many written records to tell us how they lived. Fortunately the history was somewhat preserved in the stone carvings on the walls of Angkor Wat and in the arts, handed down from generation to generation.
Grand Master San Kim Saen is the man credited with surviving the Khmer Rouge genocide, and then returning to Cambodia to revive the dying Khmer Martial Art of Bokator. Today, he works closely with writers and film makers in an effort to document his country’s art and share it with the world.
Film producer, Tim Pek, of Transparent Pictures, whose family endured the hardship of the Pol Pot Regime, was a child refugee to Australia. Now, as an adult, he has returned to his home country to make films, giving a voice to a people in a desperate need to tell their story.
The release date of the Bokator film was delayed because Tim was working on another Khmer film, called “The Red Sense.” Shot in Australia, the story revolves around a young woman who discovers that the Khmer Rouge soldier who killed her father, is alive and well in Australia. She is torn between wanting to take revenge or if in forgiving her father’s executioner, she could bring healing to herself and her people.
Posted on Tuesday, November 27, 2007
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Just in case you miss the headline in the news today. Here is one topic that might interest some of us.
Khmer Rouge Leader Charged by Tribunal
Sep 19, 10:50 AM (ET)
By KER MUNTHIT
PAILIN, Cambodia (AP) - The top surviving leader of the Khmer Rouge was charged Wednesday with war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role as chief ideologue of the notorious communist regime that killed 1.7 million people through starvation, illness, overwork and execution.
Police surrounded Nuon Chea's modest wooden bungalow in northwestern Cambodia near the Thai border in the early morning and flew him by helicopter to the capital, Phnom Penh, where a U.N.-backed genocide tribunal took custody of the man accused of acting as the top aide to late leader Pol Pot.
Relatives and dozens of onlookers watched in silence as Nuon Chea left in a police car, witnesses said. His son, Nuon Say, said his mother fainted as her husband was taken. The man once known as Brother No. 2 rolled down the window and took one last look at his son, saying nothing, Nuon Say said.
Nuon Say said his father denied wrongdoing.
"My father is happy to shed light on the Khmer Rouge regime for the world and people to understand," Nuon Say said.
Note: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20070919/D8ROJFA00.html
Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2007
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From -> http://navyphim.com/review.html
REFLECTIONS OF A KHMER SOUL
A review by Dr. Judy Ledgerwood, Associate Professor and Department Chair
Cultural Anthropology, Northern Illinois University, March 2007
This new work, by a Khmer American woman born in April 1975, just as her country was plunged into the horrors of the Khmer Rouge regime, is not another first person narrative of the events of that time. Rather, it is a narrative of a personal journey exploring the legacy of being ethnic Cambodian in the aftermath of Pol Pot, of living with the stories of war that live as a “disorderly chaos churning in my head.” Ms. Phim is not the daughter of urban elites banished to the countryside as “new” people, as all of those to publish first person accounts have been to date. Her family members were farmers, and this lends a different tone to her perspective. Her own early memories are from life in refugee camps in Thailand where Thai soldiers are the ogres of myth, and growing up in the United States being the responsible older daughter. Some of her themes will resonate across the lives of other Asian American daughters, for example: white skin and pointed noses –
Posted on Wednesday, September 19, 2007
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In this our 56th year, with alumni in all 50 states and abroad, Putney Student Travel provides unusual opportunities for small groups of high school students to share an exciting, educational summer.
We are seeking two qualified college graduates (one male, one female) to lead a group of 16 high school students from the U.S. on our Global Awareness in Action program in Cambodia which focuses on Women’s and Children’s Issues. This program begins and ends with several days at Yale University during which participants in all 7 or our Global Action programs to different locations around the world meet to discuss challenges faced by developing countries. Each group spends 3 ½ weeks in its destination country exploring the group’s target issue through hands-on activities, meetings with local leaders and NGO workers, and extensive discussion. They also participate in cultural activities, and have some time available for visiting sites of interest including Angkor Wat. As a culminating activity, they prepare and present an in-depth, multi-media report to all other Global Action participants at Yale at the end of the program. For more detailed information, please visit out web site at www.goputney.com.
Note: This announcement (submitted to us by Jim Olivier) has expired.
Posted on Wednesday, May 02, 2007
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