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Strangeland

Ep 10 of 12: The Cobra Strikes

Strangeland

Audiochuck | Western Sound

True Crime

4.22.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Many Cambodian refugees feel certain that Haing Ngor was killed for political reasons. The LAPD discounts these assassination theories. But then, a high-ranking Khmer Rouge officer gives a shocking testimony at a UN tribunal about the actor's murder.

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0:00.0

Many Cambodians in Southern California are convinced that Hain-Nor was assassinated for speaking out against the Khmer Rouge.

0:10.0

After he played the killing film, his life is in danger.

0:15.0

And my mom, Twang Lee, is one of them.

0:19.0

The Khmeru, they are around the world now.

0:22.0

They just dress normal. You don't know them. They know you.

0:27.0

So you come to the most powerful country and you play a movie and told the world that they are bad.

0:37.2

They don't keep your life.

0:38.8

Come on, simple is it?

0:41.8

The LAPD says they looked into the political assassination theory, but ultimately dismissed it.

0:48.7

They believed that the theory was circulated by Cambodian refugees who couldn't help but see the murder

0:54.4

through their own experience. In other words, it was just their PTSD talking.

0:59.6

If you step the Ac cobra, of course the cobra is going to bite you.

1:08.0

If you step on a cobra, of course the cobra will bite you.

1:12.0

The Cambodian plot wasn't a totally basel. Of course the Cobra will bite you.

1:12.6

The Cambodian plot wasn't a totally baseless suspicion.

1:16.4

Hangnor himself publicly expressed to fear that the Khmer Rouge might come after him.

1:21.2

If you let those c c c c c c cuz,

1:25.0

return the power again, maybe

1:28.0

come out now, maybe c c c c c c cuzmea rouss,

1:30.0

kill me again.

1:32.0

Three, four months before we get in and say,

1:34.0

some up, but fuck you.

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