It is written into local family folklore that my great grandmother had her house bulldozed in the 1960s in the name of progress. This is an event which happened long before my birth but which could not have been illustrated more vividly than when the wrecking ball set's about its destruction of Phnom Penh's Boeng Kak neighborhood in local director Chris Kelly's award-winning A Cambodian Spring, shown in his native Derry on Thursday last to mark world press freedom day.
A Cambodian Spring delivers hope for the people of Cambodia
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