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Montage of khmer postcards and pictures from the past.

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All rights go to Monash University, being the creators of this amazing animation, based on factual studies and findings.
In this clip you will view:- City of Temples - Village Shrine - Residential - Living City - Major Canal - Waterways - Central Angkor - Rice Fields.
These animations depict what we know of landscapes and daily life at Angkor in 13th Century CE. Animations created collaboratively by Monash University and the University of Sydney. The Monash animation team would like to thank Roland Fletcher, Christophe Pottier, Martin Polkinghome and the Monash Faculty of IT. Also a big thank you to National Geographic for the Angkor Exhibition on the website and monthly issue.

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http://www.360degreefilms.com. au/productions/tenthdancer/ind ex.html

The Tenth Dancer

"Some of my friends and relatives were honest and said they were dancers. The Khmer Rouge took them away and cut them open from their necks down to their stomachs

At the end of Pol Pot s reign of terror only one in ten classical dancers of Cambodias Royal Court had survived. This is the story of the tenth dancer.

Em Theay (pronounced Em Te-ay ) grew up in a time of peace. Surrounded by dancers she lived in the palace grounds. She never went to school but instead learnt all the songs and gestures eventually to become a teacher with the Royal Court Ballet. Her star pupil was Sok Chea (pronounced So Cheah), who at twenty two was poised to take the principal role at the Royal Court, when Pol Pot marched into Phnom Penh and the story of the killing fields began.

Em Theay and Sok Chea were separated. They both took on false identities and like everybody else went to work in the fields. Each day whilst their feet lay in mud their spirits still danced.

After the defeat of the Khmer Rouge in 1979 they heard an announcement over a loudspeaker. All dancers, musicians and performers were begged to come to Phnom Penh to help rebuild the culture. They responded to this urgent call and within days arrived, thin and malnourished, only to discover that ninety percent of their colleagues had disappeared and that most of their cultural treasures had been destroyed.
But what the Khmer Rouge failed to destroy was the memory of the people. Em Theay, reunited with Sok Chea, gathered as many former dancers as possible and began teaching again the ancient stories and traditions of their ancestors.
The Tenth Dancer is a timely film, documenting the retrieval of a destroyed culture. Set in Cambodia today, it tells the remarkable story of a teacher and her pupil who are at the helm of rebuilding classical dance in Phnom Penh. We follow them in their daily practise and witness the preparation and participation of the Royal Ballet in the Cambodian New Year celebrations. New Year is the time when Cambodians pay respect to the gods who will offer protection - and rain - for the coming year. But it is also the time when Pol Pot marched into Phnom Penh. Through memory and experience Em Theay and Sok Chea reveal their story of survival.

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Its makes you ROFL :D Just something to lighten up your day.
Courtesy of Fremantle Media Australia and Network 10 2009.

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Courtesy of SBS news Australia.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Thai and Cambodian soldiers revived a long-simmering dispute over an 11th century temple near their border, trading fire Friday with machine guns and rocket launchers in clashes that left as many as four people dead.

The latest flare-up — if not quickly resolved — could overshadow a summit of Asian leaders opening next week in the Thai coastal town of Pattaya. The summit already was delayed once in December after anti-government demonstrators took over Thailand's two main airports in Bangkok.

The fighting broke out near the cliff-top Preah Vihear temple, which is on the Cambodian side of an ill-defined border. Soldiers clashed again hours later, but the area was quiet by evening and the two sides were in talks to defuse the crisis.

Accounts from the two sides varied on casualties and other details. Both sides said Cambodia fired first, but Cambodian officials said it was because Thais strayed into their territory, while Thailand's Foreign Ministry denied that its soldiers left its territory. The ministry said the Thai soldiers were investigating a land mine blast the previous day that blew off a leg of their colleague.

Both sides said the other fired machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades.

Cambodian government spokesman Khieu Kanharith said four Thai soldiers were killed and 10 captured. Thailand's Foreign Ministry insisted only one Thai soldier was killed, seven were injured and none was taken prisoner, while two Thai army officers, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information, said two soldiers were killed and 10 injured.

"The fighting has stopped. Commanders from both sides are talking," Maj. Nou Sarath, a Cambodian soldier at the border, told The Associated Press.

Thai Foreign Ministry spokesman Tharit Charungvat said the talks later adjourned and would resume Saturday.

Leaders in both countries have a history of playing to nationalist sentiment in soveriegnty disputes.

Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen is a blunt, tough-talking leader who has warned that he is willing to go to war over the temple.

Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is more diplomatic but his supporters include the yellow-shirted activists of the People Alliance for Democracy, who are intensely nationalistic and last year rallied around the temple dispute in their campaign against the previous government. They brought the administration to a near standstill in November by besieging government offices and the Bangkok airports.

Michael Montesano, a research fellow at Singapore's Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, said Abhisit cannot afford to be seen as weak on this issue.

"The yellow shirts made Preah Vihear an issue and any feeling on their part that Abhisit is insufficiently nationalist and insufficiently tough with the Khmer (Cambodians) could risk the yellow shirts withdrawing some of their support," he said.

The World Court awarded the temple to Cambodia in 1962, but sovereignty over the surrounding land has never been clearly resolved.

Tensions flared last July when UNESCO, the U.N. cultural agency, approved Cambodia's bid to have the Preah Vihear temple named a World Heritage Site, leading some Thais to believe their claims to the surrounding land was being undermined.

The tensions erupted in brief border clashes last year, killing two Cambodian soldiers and one Thai, and both sides have stepped up deployment of soldiers at the border since then.

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Despite of global financial crisis, construction of CamKo City is being progressed based on its own schedule. Construction of Townhouses and Villas has been scheduled to be completed in this spring.
Approximately 3,000 ~ 5,000 workers make their way onto the site every day and markets have arisen to serve these workers with food and supplies. As the project is being constructed without stop, citizens in Phnom Penh have begun to recognize the reality of the project. First phase buyers are preparing for their move-in.

As of February 20, 2009, construction progress of the 1st phase is 56% and followings are pictures of the site.

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Here are key facts about Cambodia's long road from genocide to justice:

THE GENOCIDE:

-- The communist Khmer Rouge seized control of Cambodia in April 1975 and immediately began dismantling modern society in their drive to transform the country into an agrarian utopia.




The regime abolished religion, schools and currency and exiled millions of people onto vast collective farms. Up to two million people died of starvation and overwork or were executed from 1975 to 1979. The horrors of the genocide were portrayed in the film "The Killing Fields."




WHAT HAPPENED NEXT:

-- The Khmer Rouge were driven from power in 1979 by Vietnamese troops and former regime members who defected, including Hun Sen, now Cambodia's prime minister. He was a mid-level military commander until fleeing to Vietnam in 1977. Under him, the Cambodian government fought the Khmer Rouge until the movement collapsed in the mid-1990s.




THE TRIBUNAL:

-- Cambodia and the United Nations signed an agreement in 2003 which essentially brought the tribunal into being and set out its mandate. Known as the Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), it is a complex hybrid court combining elements of international law with Cambodia's judiciary.

Its mandate is to prosecute "those most responsible" for crimes committed between 1975 and 1979.

The tribunal has faced controversy over allegations that Cambodian staff were forced by their superiors to pay kickbacks for their jobs.

It can impose a sentence of imprisonment of up to life in prison. There is no death penalty and no financial compensation for victims.

It is funded by foreign nations, the biggest donors being Japan and Germany.

WHO FACES TRIAL:

-- After Duch, the court is scheduled to try Khmer Rouge "Brother Number Two" Nuon Chea, former head of state Khieu Samphan, ex-foreign minister Ieng Sary, and his wife, former social affairs minister Ieng Thirith, all on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.




The court is also due to rule whether to pursue charges against other former leaders after the Cambodian co-prosecutor said such a move would destabilise the country. Many observers say the decision on whether to prosecute more Khmer Rouge suspects represents a test of the court's independence from the current Cambodian government.

AND THOSE WHO ESCAPED:

-- Because of the tribunal's limited scope, thousands of lower-level Khmer Rouge members and fighters who carried out the regime's brutal acts will never face court. Also escaping justice are "Brother Number One" Pol Pot, who died in 1998, and military commander Ta Mok, one of the regime's most vicious figures, who was in jail when he died in 2006.

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Who is Duch?
"I have done very bad things in my life," he confessed to journalists who tracked him down in 1999. "Now it is time for (the consequences) of my actions."

The 66-year-old Duch, whose real name is Kaing Guek Eav, allegedly oversaw the torture and extermination of over 12,000 men, women and children at the Khmer Rouge's Tuol Sleng prison during the regime's 1975-1979 rule.

Duch was formally arrested by Cambodia's genocide tribunal in July 2007, becoming the first top Khmer Rouge cadre to be detained, and charged with war crimes, crimes against humanity, torture and premeditated murder.




"He is meticulous, conscientious, control-oriented, attentive to detail and seeks recognition from his superiors," said a psychological examination by the UN-backed court.

He is said to have been feared by nearly everyone who worked under him at the prison in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh.

Most who worked there were uneducated teenage boys, who he said could be easily indoctrinated because they were "like a blank piece of paper."




He has consistently recognised the crimes committed under his command of the regime's killing machine, where prisoners were tortured into denouncing themselves and others as agents of the CIA, KGB and Vietnamese Communist Party.

Duch was first arrested in 1999 after photojournalist Nic Dunlop uncovered him earlier that year working for a Christian relief agency in western Cambodia.

Before that, he was long thought dead following his disappearance after Vietnam's ouster of the Khmer Rouge in 1979.

Instead, Duch had converted to Christianity and worked for relief organisations along the Cambodian-Thai border.

"I feel very sorry about the killings and the past -- I wanted to be a good communist; I did not take any pleasure in my work," he told Dunlop. "All the confessions of the prisoners -- I worried, is that true or not?"




Duch later told tribunal investigators he believed the inner circle of Khmer Rouge leaders did not believe the confessions either, but used them as "excuses to eliminate those who represented obstacles."




Born in 1942 in central Cambodia, Duch was a top student and is remembered as a sincere teacher devoted to helping the poor, before he fled to the Khmer Rouge in 1970 as a reaction to injustice in then-volatile Cambodia.

That decision to join the communist guerrilla movement was influenced by one of his high school instructors who would later be executed at Tuol Sleng.




"I joined the Khmer Rouge in order to liberate my people and not commit crimes," Duch told tribunal investigators. "I became both an actor in criminal acts and also a hostage of the regime."




Inside the rebel-controlled zones, Duch is said to have been appointed head of special security.

He allegedly oversaw a series of prisons before being made head of Tuol Sleng after the regime seized the capital in 1975.

What began as only a few dozen prisoners turned into a daily torrent of condemned coming through Tuol Sleng as the regime repeatedly purged itself of its "enemies."

Ever meticulous, Duch built up a huge archive of photos, confessions and other documents with which the final horrible months of thousands of inmates' lives can be traced.

After the Khmer Rouge fell from power, he maintained posts within the communist movement as it battled Vietnam-backed troops along the Thai border. He also taught English and maths in at least one refugee camp.




Shortly after his wife was murdered in 1995, Duch began attending Christian prayer meetings and was later baptised by Christopher LaPel, an evangelical Khmer-American minister.

In a 1999 interview with Time magazine, LaPel remembered Duch as an enthusiastic convert, but said there were signs pointing to his dark past.




"Before he received Christ, he said he did a lot of bad things in his life. He said: 'Pastor Christopher, I don't know if my brothers and sisters can forgive the sins I've committed against the people'," LaPel was quoted as saying at the time.

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Former maths teacher Kaing Guek Eav - better known as Duch - sat in the dock for an initial hearing into charges that he ran the main prison centre for the hardline-communist regime that killed up to two million people.

"This first hearing represents the realisation of significant efforts in establishing a fair and independent tribunal to try those in senior leadership positions," chief judge Nil Nonn told the court.

A gaunt-looking Duch, 66, wore a blue shirt and listened through earphones to lawyers' arguments as the court launched proceedings behind a huge bullet-proof screen, designed to prevent revenge attacks by his victims.

For Cambodians, the controversial tribunal, established in 2006 after nearly a decade of negotiations between Cambodia and the United Nations, is seen as the last chance to bring the Khmer Rouge's leaders to justice.

"It is a very important day for me," said Chum Mey, one of only about a dozen people to have survived the notorious Tuol Sleng detention centre.

'Torture and extermination'

"I will be a witness and I want to see Duch and ask why he imprisoned me."




"It is not only me wanting justice today. All Cambodian people have been waiting for 30 years now," said Vann Nath, another survivor of the jail who was in court today.

"I look at Duch today and he seems like an old, very gentle man. It was much different 30 years ago."

Vann Nath, who survived by painting and sculpting portraits of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, described Duch as a "very cruel man".

Duch was indicted last year for allegedly personally overseeing the torture and extermination of more than 15,000 men, women and children when he headed the prison, built in a former high school.

Now a born-again Christian, he is charged with crimes against humanity, war crimes, torture and premeditated murder.

He faces a sentence of life in prison from the tribunal, which does not have the power to impose the death penalty.

Detention without trial

Several other survivors and people who lost loved ones at Tuol Sleng gathered outside the specially-built courtroom on the outskirts of Phnom Penh for the hearing.

Duch was transported in an armoured Land Cruiser with blacked-out windows from the nearby villa-style detention centre where he is being held with four other Khmer Rouge leaders due to face trial later this year.

His first hearing is expected to last less than three days as it involves procedural matters concerning the structure of the trial, which involves a joint Cambodian and international staff.

Defence lawyer Francois Roux reminded judges that Duch had been held without trial for "nine years, nine months and seven days until today," something he called "unacceptable".

Duch was arrested in 1999 when a journalist found him working as a Christian aid worker in the jungle, and was formally transferred to the tribunal in July 2007.

He has previously expressed regret for his crimes.

"A person can't be held in detention for more than three years under Cambodian law," Roux said, adding he would raise the matter again during substantive hearings scheduled to begin next month.

Starvation, overwork and murder

Tuol Sleng was at the heart of the Khmer Rouge security apparatus and thousands of inmates were taken from there during Duch's tenure for execution at nearby Choeung Ek, an orchard now known as the "Killing Fields".

Led by "Brother Number One" Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge was responsible for one of the worst horrors of the 20th century, wiping out nearly a quarter of the population through starvation, overwork and execution.

Rising to power as a tragic spinoff from the US conflict in Vietnam, the movement emptied Cambodia's cities to take society back to a rural "Year Zero", purging city dwellers, intellectuals and even people who wore glasses.

The Khmer Rouge was ousted by Vietnamese-backed forces after a reign of terror lasting three years, eight months and 20 days, but continued to fight a civil war until 1998. Pol Pot died in the same year.

The tribunal has faced controversy over allegations of political interference by the government and claims that Cambodian staff paid kickbacks for their jobs.

The joint trial of the four other Khmer Rouge leaders being held with Duch is set to start later this year after Duch's trial is completed, although no date has yet been set.

Judges are mulling opening cases against other former Khmer Rouge leaders after a dispute between the international and Cambodian co-prosecutors over whether to pursue more suspects.

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