Storyville pol pot biography

BBC World News brings international documentaries to a global audience

BBC World News kicks off the New Year with an exciting international documentary series - Storyville Global.  The films, directed by different filmmakers from across the globe, depict a range of contemporary political, cultural and human rights issues. The Storyville Global series, chosen and produced by the Why Foundation, is made up of twenty films and launches with Rodrigo Vazquez’s, Revolution: Do’s and Don’ts, which has been exclusively updated for BBC World News.

From one woman’s political struggle in Bolivia to the horrors of the Cambodian Genocide, and the world’s largest Chinese restaurant, this series explores thought provoking and challenging issues told through a diverse range of global voices.

BBC World News, in collaboration with The Why Foundation, has committed to a total of twenty films for 2015 which will broadcast to its weekly global audience of 76 million viewers. The aim of this partnership is to ensure that high quality films are available to as

Final Closure of The Khmer Rouge Genocide

December 06, 2018


On November 3, 2017, The Elephant Story published a blog entitled A Fresh Look at a Seventies Nightmare which outlined the incomprehensible chapter of Khmer Rouge rule in Cambodia. Even today, many of the former Khmer Rouge cadres live freely without any recrimination for their crimes against humanity and wanton genocide that resulted in the deaths of up to two million of their people. However, the two most senior surviving members of the regime, Nuon Chea, 92, and Khieu Samphan, 87 were recently convicted of genocide. The verdict repeated certain words like murder, extermination, enslavement, imprisonment, torture, persecution on political grounds and other inhumane acts.

The former leader of the Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot, died in 1998 of natural causes. Nate Thayer, an acquaintance of the author, interviewed Pol Pot in 1997 in the village of Anlong Veng which was carved out of a Khmer Rouge jungle stronghold near the Thai border. Pol Pot denied the claims of genocide though he acknowledged a number of Cham and

Bosse Lindquist

Swedish radio and TV producer and writer (born 1954)

Bosse Lindquist

Bosse Lindquist in November 2016

Born1954 (age 70–71)

Stockholm, Sweden

NationalitySwedish

Bosse Lindquist (born 1954) is a Swedish radio and TV producer and writer. Since 2012, he directs investigative documentaries for Swedish Television's documentary department. From 2007 to 2009, Lindquist was head of the national radio broadcaster Swedish Radio's documentary department. He was Ander Visiting Professor of Global Media Studies at Karlstad University from 2012 to 2013.[1] He has been a non-fiction author and director of documentaries since 1988.[2]

Career

A series of documentaries on the state of modern genetics and prenatal diagnostics - Mechanics of Live – won the Prix Futura (now renamed Prix Europa) in Berlin 1995, and was also rewarded with the Ikarosprice for 1993 and the Association of Swedish Investigative Journalists prize for 1993. The radio-documentary The Rebels – about an extreme and secret Swedish maoist g

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