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JOHN PILGER’S FILM ‘CAMBODIA YEAR ZERO’ NAMED AS ONE OF ITV’S 60 GREATEST PROGRAMMES

- August 18, 2015

On the 60th anniversary of the founding of ITV, Britain’s and Europe’s biggest commercial broadcaster, John Pilger’s groundbreaking film, ‘Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia’, has been named as one of the network’s 60 top programmes.

‘Cambodia Year Zero’, as it became known, was credited with alerting the world to the suffering of the people of Cambodia under the fanatical regime of Pol Pot. It raised tens of millions of pounds for Cambodia’s children – mostly unsolicited – and became the most watched documentary throughout the world.

Watch the film and read John Pilger’s account in his anthology ‘Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism and its Triumphs’.

Cambodia’s missing accused

- June 23, 2011

In an article for the Guardian, John Pilger calls on his long experience with Cambodia’s struggles in lamenting missing faces in the dock at the UN-backed trial of crimes committed during the Khmer Rouge period. Where are Pol Pot’s accomplices and collaborators in the West?

Thirty years on, the holocaust in Cambodia and its aftermath is remembered

- June 19, 2011

In a report for the London Daily Mirror, John Pilger recalls the stricken society he found in Cambodia in 1979 which he described in his documentary, Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia. He reminds us that the Pol Pot horror emerged from the bombing ordered by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, and that Cambodia was again “punished” when its liberators came from the wrong side of the Cold War and the Thatcher government sent special forces to train the Khmer Rouge in exile.

Cambodia: Return to Year Zero

- April 20, 1993

John Pilger shows how the UN has allowed the Khmer Rouge to grow stronger. “What will happen when the United Nations leaves? Why has Pol Pot’s organisation grown stronger and more menacing since the arrival of the UN? Indeed, has a Trojan horse been built for the return of Asia’s Hitler?” John Pilger’s sixth documentary on Cambodia […]

Cambodia: The Betrayal

- October 9, 1990

The plight of a people who have struggled to rebuild their stricken country. “Unfortunately, this film is not a celebration of a Cambodia now freed from the threat of another holocaust. It’s about betrayal – a betrayal of those who asked for help for Cambodia, regardless of whether that help meant offending the United States […]

Cambodia: Year Ten (Update)

- November 21, 1989

The British government and the UN react to the outcry over the situation in Cambodia. “Tens of thousands of viewers have called upon their MPs and the government to withdraw support for Pol Pot. Tonight, we bring you up to date on the reaction of the British government and the United Nations.” Three weeks after […]

Cambodia: Year Ten

- October 31, 1989

An examination of how the UN protected and revitalised the Khmer Rouge. “This film is about extraordinary events which have allowed Asia’s Hitler to rise again and the prospect of the previously unthinkable happening again… The memories of 10 years ago are indelible and, now that the Vietnamese have left, almost everybody I know is […]

Cambodia: Year One

- September 10, 1980

The effect of aid to Cambodia and the extent of the country’s new-found stability. “The film you are about to see will show what your compassion and generosity have achieved. It will also show, in the first report both from here in Cambodia and the camps in Thailand, why this suffering nation is being kept […]

Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia

- October 30, 1979

The shocking state of Cambodia after Pol Pot’s murderous regime. John Pilger’s shocking 1979 documentary Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia alerted the world to the horrors wrought by Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge. The film was originally broadcast on commercial television in Britain and Australia without advertising, which was unprecedented. The British […]