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A Reporter’s Dangerous Guided Tour through Democratic Kampuchea


Venue Bophana Center
Hosted By 60882cambodiapagesBophana Audiovisual Resource Center
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This exhibition presents the photographs of the american journalist Elizabeth Becker's trip to Democratic Kampuchea in 1978 along with recordings of Pol Pot, Ieng Sary and Ieng Thirith. They are being shown for the first time in this multi-media exhibit. It includes her recorded narration of the 1978 trip which ended with an attack on her group and the murder of a British professor.

Elizabeth Becker, former New York Times correspondent and author of WHEN THE WAR WAS OVER, the classic history of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge, is one of only two Western reporters to visit Cambodia when it was Democratic Kampuchea.

Schedule:
Discussion with students: Febuary 9, 2012 at 9am
Opening: February 9, 2012 at 6pm
Exhibition Date: 9 - 29 February, 2012
Location: Bophana Center, #64, Street 200, Phnom Penh

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