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Cambodian Dance Master/Teacher Sophiline Shapiro gives Khmer Arts Academy students a preview of her original piece. This unique piece blends Cambodian Classical Dance with modern music.
Choreographed by Sophiline Cheam Shapiro to "Shir Ha-Shirim" by composer John Zorn. Performed by Mot Pharan, Chao Socheata, Sao Phirum, and Molyta Pum (ស្រីតូច) of the Khmer Arts Ensemble, in Long Beach at Khmer Arts Academy Studio, October 2011.
Siem Reap, Cambodia (CNN) -- Maneuvering slowly through grassy Cambodian terrain, a caravan of 20 men and women is on a search-and-rescue mission. Dressed in military fatigues, they are guided by a fearless leader who calculates every step and ensures the safest path for his comrades.
It takes just minutes for the unit to confront the first of many hidden targets: a muddied 20-year-old land mine buried a few inches beneath the ground.
"This is an active land mine made from Russia. [If] we step on [it] ... it explodes and cuts the leg off," says Aki Ra, leader of the Cambodian Self Help Demining team. He and his group are working to make their country safer by clearing land mines -- many of which Aki Ra planted himself years ago.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/07/29/cnnheroes.cambodia.demining/index.html?hpt=C1
Phnom Penh, Cambodia (CNN) -- "I come back here to where I killed people. And I feel terrible. My mind, my soul, my body is spinning inside. All the things I did are flashing through my mind."
So declares a man sitting alongside a field named Suon, identified as a former Khmer Rouge militia commander who shows how he slit people's throats and talks about drinking gall bladder bile in the documentary, "Enemies of the People."
The film had its premiere in Asia just ahead of the first verdict to be handed down by the Cambodian genocide tribunal on Monday.
At least 1.7 million people -- nearly a quarter of Cambodia's population -- died under the 1975-1979 Khmer Rouge from execution, disease, starvation and overwork, according to the Documentation Center of Cambodia.
Read more at: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/07/25/cambodia.khmer.rouge.filmmaker/index.html?hpt=C1