Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge Leaders in a train
as i mentioned in my previous post last week about Trails From The East, a Tv program of Australia Network, this week is about the train in Cambodia.
the title of the documentary is a bit scary, does Cambodia is really a scare country? maybe it’s true for sometime in the past, but a lot of things changed … Cambodia is on its way to welcome tourists and give them various leisure and safety trip.
not yet for the railroad, but i heard the Australian company TOOL have been selected for the railroad rebuild between Phnom Penh-Poipet and Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville. more information available at Cambodge Soir,
today no more train but recently a concert and party have been organized to keep people not to forget about the train station that if you used to go to Lyon, you might see how similar style they could make between Gare de Phnom Penh and Gare de Lyon…
On June 5, the Elsewhere party has taking place, i didn’t have chance to join but you can catch up some photo at Asian Life Guide Cambodia
the Khmer-French local band Mekong Pirates, has started to chill up the place, woke up all the train station employees, the beggars, the homeless people who using station as their home right now … and the dead trains themselves.
not only the people that work and live at the station, many people: experts, local Khmers, and others baranges (white people) joined and supported the events at that night… it was a really good action to recall the intervention from the authority.
the Cambodian railroad got a lot of history, i used to see Pol Pot sitting in a train somewhere and i have contact Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-CAM), and got the reply quickly from Youk CHHANG and Sopheak SIM, thank a lot to them for the original photo
so hope you don’t miss the real documentary about the train in Cambodia tonight, here is the schedule details:
Australia Network TV
Cambodia – Country of Scars
Wednesday, 17 June 2009 at 19:00
Cambodia – Country of Scars
Wednesday, 17 June 2009 at 22:00
Cambodia – Country of Scars
Thursday, 18 June 2009 at 12:00
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