40th anniversary of fall of Phnom Penh

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(17 Apr 2015) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLY • • AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY • 1. Wide of people praying close to stupa containing skulls of victims of Khmer Rouge, this is the site of an execution ground • 2. Mid of people praying • 3. Wide of skulls in stupa • 4. Various of opposition leader Sam Rainsy praying in front of skulls • 5. Wide of ceremony • 6. Mid of people at ceremony • 7. Close of Rainsy • 8. Mid of woman crying while making speech • 9. People offering food to monks. • 10. SOUNDBITE (English) Sam Rainsy, Leader of Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP): • It is why every year we remind the people in power to support the Khmer Rouge tribunal. To proceed and not to hinder in any way, the judicial proceedings that is intended to bring justice to the Khmer people. • 11. Various of skulls in stupa • STORYLINE • Several hundred mourners and Buddhist monks gathered at the site of an execution ground on the outskirts of Phnom Penh on Friday, to remember the day 40 years ago that the country fell into the murderous grip of the Khmer Rouge. • Cambodia fell to the Khmer Rouge - led by Pol Pot - on April 17th 1975. • They were in power for almost 4 years before they were toppled by an invasion by the Vietnamese. • An estimated 1.7 million Cambodians died under the rule of the communist movement from starvation, slave labour and wholesale murder and bloody purges. • Thousands of men, women and children were killed at the site after first being held and tortured at the regime's most secret camp, called S-21. • After the overthrow of the Khmer Rouge in January 1979 the burial pits were excavated and the skulls of many of those found there were put in a stupa as a grisly reminder of what the country went through. • Two of the top figures from the Khmer Rouge regime are currently on trial for crimes committed during that period. • Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan have already been convicted of crimes against humanity, and their current trial is for a range of other alleged crimes including genocide. • Pol Pot died in 1998 without facing justice. • Rainsy stressed that marking the anniversary was a reminder to the people in power to support the Khmer Rouge tribunal. • =========================================================== • Clients are reminded: • (i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: [email protected] • (ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service • (iii) they have editorial responsibility for the use of all and any content included within the AP Television News service and for libel, privacy, compliance and third party rights applicable to their Territory. • • Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork • Twitter: / ap_archive • Facebook: / aparchives • Instagram: / apnews • • • You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...

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