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Love Story Amidst the Khmer Rouge's Genocide | Bophana - Flower of Dangerous Love |

Love Story of The Cambodian Genocide | Bophana - Flower of Dangerous Love | Four decades later, victims of the Cambodian Genocide remains. Only in recent years where Khmer Rouge cadres were trialed for war crimes. The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is now a museum depicting the past atrocities of the Cambodian Genocide. The museum was the former S-21 camp, arguably the most infamous prison camp during the rule of Pol Pot. An estimated 20,000 people were imprisoned in the S-21 camp, of which, the one with the thickest interrogation file comes from one woman named after a flower, Bophana. Transcript ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the Khmer language, Bophana means flower. Bophana has a legacy in the Bophana Center, an audiovisual center located in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, dedicated to restoring and protecting Cambodian audiovisual heritage. Bophana was a 25 year old victim of the Cambodian genocide. The Cambodian genocide was carried out between 1975 to 1979 under the Khmer Rouge regime of Pol Pot. Bophana was executed for writing a love letter to her husband. Here is the story of Bophana, flower of dangerous love. In 1953, Cambodia gained independence from the French. Cambodia was under the rule of King Norodom Sihanouk until he was ousted in a military coup by Lon Nol in 1970. Here starts a power struggle between Lon Nol and Pol Pot ending with Lon Nol eventually fleeing to California, USA. Under Pol Pot’s rule, the Khmer Rouge conducted mass genocide In which an approximate 1.6 million people died, in which Bophana (image by Dudva) was one of them. At 16, Bophana was engaged to her lover, Ly Sitha. Due to Lon Nol’s coup, Sitha became a monk to avoid the military draft. In the military coup, Bophana was accused to be a Khmer Rouge spy by Cambodian soldiers. She was captured and raped by the Cambodian soldiers and became pregnant as a result. She attempted suicide, but was saved by doctors giving birth to a son in 1971. In 1975, when Phnom Penh fell to the Khmer Rouge, Bophana, as a literate, was captured and forced into hard labour in the fields. That was where she met a Khmer Rouge official named Deth. It was Sitha. Sitha is now a Khmer Rouge official known as Comrade Deth. Sitha had used his position to locate Bophana and they got married. In 1975, family, love and personal life were banned during times of revolution. They sent each other love letters in secret, with Bophana signing off as Flower of Dangerous Love. Eventually, they were exposed and both were captured due to their literacy in multiple languages as well as putting love before the revolution. Sitha was executed while Bophana was tortured and interrogated for several months. Eventually, Bophana confessed to be a CIA agent. On her confession pages, she signed off as Sedadeth, meaning, “Seda of Deth” as a last act of defiance and her love with Sitha. Bophana’s interrogation file was one of the thickest and most complete file to come out of S-21, the torture prison used by the Khmer Rouge. Years later, S-21’s camp commandant, Kang Kew Lew (image by Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia), said this with regard to Bophana, “If you run into Bophana’s uncle, please ask him to forgive me. I feel sorry for that man—I did him harm. I’m the one responsible. And if you see her husband’s mother, tell her that Duch acknowledges the wrong he did.” Bophana was eventually executed and thrown into the mass graves of Choeung Ek on March 18, 1977. Bophana Center was named after Bophana and opened by film maker Rithy Panh, himself a Khmer Rouge survivor. On top of the Bophana Center, Rithy Panh made the film Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy. Recommeded Videos (Warning: Some videos are quite graphical) 1) Death Of A Nation: The Khmer Rouge's Cambodia (    • Death Of A Nation: The Khmer Rouge's Cambodia   ) 2) Cambodian Genocide - Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge (    • Cambodian Genocide - Pol Pot and the Khmer...   ) (WARNING: Disturbing photos) 3) Behind the walls of S-21 (    • Видео   ) 4) Summary of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia 1975-1979 -- Video Essay (    • Summary of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia 197...   ) (WARNING: VERY DISTURBING PHOTOS)