Brother Number One trailer

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 6:04p.m.

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Documentary following Rob Hamill to Cambodia seeking justice for his brother, murdered by the Khmer Rouge regime in 1978.

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23 Jul 2011 01:29p.m.

Rob Hamill wrote:

No survivor in Cambodia treated me with such disdain. As you will see in the film, Cambodians embraced me as a fellow victim -- when I voiced my anxieties about my "privilege" in being invited to speak, Youk Chhang, called by many "the conscience of Cambodia", reassured me staying: "When you have lost a loved one, you suffer in the same way". I contemplated all the issues you highlight and the decision to put my head above the pulpit was not taken lightly. Before I began working on this the awareness here in NZ of this terrible period of recent history was, at best, average. I hope this film will assist people to better understand what happened to the people of this beautiful country.

23 Jul 2011 01:20p.m.

Cleo wrote:

I think Chris and Louis are utterly wrong. In fact according to the Yale Genocide Centre statistical modelling (and yes I can see Chris you are a sniper at academics, an SAA, familiar breed), the numbers are likely to be higher than 2 million. Just because the Cambodians suffered hugely, and Rob has always acknowledged that and I feel from the trailer even that this is what motivated him too, it doesn't detract from the suffering he and his family underwent. If you think families "get over" the loss of a child or sibling regardless of circumstance, I imagine you live in a different planet to most of us. Then to find out that child/sibling has been tortured for months.

17 Jul 2011 01:48a.m.

Louis Godena wrote:

I concur with Chris' comment. The two million figure has been repeated so often, ad nauseum, that lazy journalists and opportunistic politicians utter it as a matter of rote. Also, didn't Kerry Hamil dabble as a small-time narcotics trafficker? His brother, unfortunately, contributes to the image of arrogant opportunist that many Cambodians have of westerners in general.