Cambodian genocide trials

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🗓️ 18 June 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In 2009, Rob Hamill testified in the trial of Comrade Duc, who ran the notorious Tuol Sleng prison during the Cambodian genocide. Josephine McDermott spoke to him.

It is 50 years since Kim Phuc's village in Vietnam was bombed with napalm. The photograph of her, running burned from the attack, became one of the iconic images of the Vietnam War. Kim Phuc talks to Christopher Wain, the man who helped save her.

In 2001 a violent, sectarian dispute took place outside Holy Cross Primary School in Belfast. Loyalist protesters tried to block the school run for Catholic pupils and their parents for months. Rachel Naylor spoke to one of the parents, Elaine Burns.

This year is the 100th anniversary of Ulysses by James Joyce, one of the most influential novels of the 20th Century. Ulysses is the story of one day in the life of a young Irishman in Dublin; that day, June 16th, is now known as Bloomsday. To mark Bloomsday, Simon Watts brought together the memories of some of Joyce’s friends. The programme was first broadcast in 2012.

In 1985, a unique High School opened in New York to provide a safe environment for LGBT students needing specialised education. The publicly-funded Harvey Milk High School was founded by former social worker, Steve Askinazy. Alex Collins talked to Steve Askinazy.

(Photo: Kang Kek lew (Comrade Duc) as Director of Tuol Sleng Prison, c.1976-8. Credit: Getty images)

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0:00.0	Anyone that helps people who are accused of sorcery are also blamed for being sorceress.
0:05.7	Lives less ordinary from the BBC World Service, real people with extraordinary stories.
0:12.0	I started having a strength in me. I have to stand up for
0:16.0	other women. Find out more at the end of this podcast.
0:19.2	Hello and welcome to the History Hour Podcast from the BBC with me Max Pearson and the team behind the witness history strand on the world service.
0:28.0	This week the Vietnam War photo that shocked the world, a child running naked and burned by Napalm. We meet the girl in the picture.
0:36.0	I heard the noise, boop-boop, boop-boo. Then suddenly I saw the fire everywhere around me.
0:45.6	Also sectarian hatred in Northern Ireland even after the Good Friday Agreement.
0:50.7	It was full on, rat punching, kicking, people had iron bars and people were actually like beating each
0:57.8	other.
0:58.8	It was just something you had a saw out of a movie.
1:01.2	Plus from the archives, the Irish writer James Joyce remembered by those who knew him, and a new school
1:07.1	in 1980s New York to help make LGBT youngsters feel safe.
1:11.8	It was a very cathartic day because kids got to talk
1:15.2	about themselves. They got to be in an environment where they were being
1:19.6	told that they had potential. That's all coming up later in the podcast but first Cambodia and one of the
1:26.4	most brutal episodes of the 20th century in the late 1970s polepots Khmer Rouge
1:31.9	regime in pursuit of an extreme communist ideology took the country back to year zero
1:37.6	The towns and cities were emptied in a crazed campaign to establish a new agrarian society.
1:43.6	Learning was not to be trusted.
1:45.3	The educated was sent to work in the killing fields.
1:48.7	It's thought Khmer Rouge commanders were responsible for the genocide of an estimated
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