Filmmaker: Tim Pritchard

For much of the 1970s the Khmer Rouge held power in Cambodia, imposing a programme of radical social reengineering on its people.

The country was renamed Kampuchea, private ownership of land was abolished and the vast majority of the population was made to work on collective farms or on forced labour projects.

Intellectuals, professionals and those seen as a threat to the revolution were all targeted and killed.

In all, the regime murdered an estimated one and a half million of its citizens constituting more than one fifth of the population.

The Khmer Rouge destroyed many things including land registry documents and now there is little or no proof of who owns what.

As filmmaker Tim Pritchard discovered nothing is straightforward when the title documents have simply vanished.

Now, many ex-Khmer Rouge soldiers who were given land in return for putting down their guns fear they are being singled out for persecution.

With speculators keen to take advantage of a boom in construction, many Cambodians now fear that their land will be stolen with no legal redress.

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