Pol Pot Documentary Explores Dictator’s Effort To Wipe Out Dance

Pol Pot, leader of the Khmer Rouge, in the Cambodian jungle with an ABC news team during an interview. Filed 01/17/1980

In one of the most compelling films to hold its world premiere at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, archive footage shows an apparently amiable man dressed in black sitting for an interview with a Yugoslav […]

Velvet gloves to iron fists: how complicit are the wives of dictators? | Life and style – www.theguardian.com

Imelda Marcos talks to the press at the Manila international airport on 10 December 1997.

Shared from www.theguardian.com “These prosecutors are rummaging in my closets, hoping to find skeletons. But all they will find are my beautiful clothes.” So says the fictional Marija Popa, adapting an infamous phrase from Imelda […]