Cambodia - After Pol Pot

(3 Oct 1997) RR9740/B - CAMBODIA: AFTER POL POT
(Duration: 5 mins 36 secs/English sot: 45 secs)
After two decades in the grip of the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia is
trying to come to terms with life after Pol Pot. Again the
catalyst for change has been education. With over half
Cambodia's households being headed by women, their practical
need to be educated is changing this once patriarchal society. A
programme of remedial literacy classes has been launched by the
Cambodian Women's Development Association and as a result
daughters attend classes along side their brothers. But the
hope is that more will be learnt from the lessons of history
and Cambodia can give its lost generation a new legacy.
SHOWS
WTN File
(File): Cambodian border with Thailand: bridge and mountain
range, women working in field, women sitting under tree;
WTN
Cambodia: women planting rice; woman walking down road;
WTN File
Cambodia, various locations: girl reciting lessons; school room; girl writing; boy writing on blackboard; (file): villagers fleeing fighting; soldiers standing by the side of road; soldiers sitting on tank; women fleeing fighting; Cambodia: (Khmer Rouge propaganda film):crowd in jungle; Pol Pot shaking hands with supporters; crowd; Pol Pot by podium;
killing fields: human remains in field; skull lying in stream;
Phnom Penh: former schoolhouse used as torture house; interior,
bed frame and still of victim on wall; still of victim; still
of victim; murals of attrocities in schoolhouse;
AP
(file) Magazine cover showing Pol Pot's capture
WTN
Cambodia: children in school; teacher; children taking a class; close up on young girl; village adult literacy class; woman reading newspaper; womans face; women reading; baby; Phnom Penh: Sopeck higher education student; teacher writing on board; Sopeck, sot, all underlaid; Sopeck in class; woman working at loom; Sochua Mu, Minister for Women's Affairs, sot, part underlaid scenes of women working at looms, women working at typewriters, women in village; child in
village; Cambodia: skull monument, monks walking by monument; incense being lit by skulls; skulls.
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