This is a little -known little story just before the big massacre perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge between 1975 and 1979. A three -week crisis just at the start of the three -year reign, eight months and twenty days of Pol Pot men in Cambodia. When they seize Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975, they ordered the population to leave the city, on the pretext of protecting them from imminent American bombing on the Cambodian capital. The Khmer Rouge are masters liars. There have never been such projects.
Panic seizes the city. On April 12, the United States closed its embassy. That of France therefore remains the only official representation open to Phnom Penh, in a city grid by the Khmer Rouge, armed and threatening, who want to empty the city of all its inhabitants and all possible witnesses. Before attacking “Fascist traitors and the abolitions of imperialism”. People are flocking, crowd against the gates, throw the suitcases over the walls and stretch the arms of babies at the end. The gendarmes of the French Embassy are quickly “Overwhelmed”, As the many witnesses present on the scene tell in this documentary in this documentary. THE
