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Highly recommended. Haing Ngor won the Best Supporting Academy Award for his portrayal which also may have offended Pol Pot/the Khmer rouge enough to get him k

• hutzlibu 6y ago
  "Defense attorneys suggested the murder was a politically motivated killing carried out by sympathizers of the Khmer Rouge, but offered no evidence to support this theory.[13] Kang Kek Iew, a former Khmer Rouge official on trial in Cambodia, claimed in November 2009 that Ngor was murdered on Pol Pot's orders, but U.S. investigators did not find him credible." More likely just murder and theft, it seems.
  • anonAndOn 6y ago
    Selective quote, much? The very next sentence is, "Some criticized the theory that Ngor was killed in a bungled robbery, pointing to $2,900 in cash which had been left behind and the fact that the thieves had not rifled his pockets."
    • hutzlibu 6y ago
      Nope, I just stopped reading there. But I still see no convincing link to the red khmer.
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