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• ‟ The most beautiful thing in Cambodia isn't the country - it's the Cambodian people.

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• ‟ When the Khmer Rouge reached Phnom Penh, the first thing they did was to evacuate the population. Then they took over. The point of a revolution is to bring justice to the people, so even if you don't have proof of sabotage, you manufacture it.

  - Rithy Panh
  

• ‟ Part of the Khmer Rouge project was not only to destroy individual people, but to destroy the very notion of the individual. I want to simply rebuild the stories of people - it's part of my fight against the Khmer Rouge agenda.

  - Rithy Panh
  

• ‟ When we pray to Buddha, we are not praying to a piece of stone, an image of Buddha, but we pray to the soul of Buddha behind the piece of stone. The souls of the people who are dead now are still with us.

  - Rithy Panh
  

• ‟ People of my generation did not like very much to tell what we lived through during the Khmer Rouge regime.

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• ‟ I like people who have the capacity to forget. I think that to forget is a good thing. Forgetting is good. But sometimes I cannot. For me, I cannot.

  - Rithy Panh