PERPETRATORHOOD PARADIGMS: The Duel and Moral Resentment

As a supra-docu-activist film, Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath’s Enemies of the People: A Personal Journey Into the Heart of the Killing Fields (UK/Cambodia, 2009) charts the ten-year quest of first-generation codirector Thet Sambath to find truth in regard to the genocide and its victims.³ Sambath, who tells the story of his quest through the voice-over, began his project in 1998, while he was still working as a journalist at the Phnom Penh Post.⁴ Motivated by the murder of his mother, father, and brother, and a deep incomprehension of why the Khmer Rouge (KR) unleashed such violence on its compatriots,