The Killing Fields Page #2

Mister, you wanna buy?

Mister, you wanna buy?

- One dollar? You wanna buy?

- I'm out of film. I'm sorry.

Ask her how many kids she's got

in her family.

"Five."

Her husband was killed already.

What's this?

What are these guys over here?

In the jeep, prisoners.

Khmer Rouge prisoners.

They kill a lot of villagers.

She says Khmer Rouge soak rags

in gasoline...

...and push them down

villagers' throat...

...then set the rags alight.

Film! No film!

I know there's no film.

No camera!

No camera!

It's all right.

Just take it easy.

Tell them we're jour...

Come on! Get in!

I'm worried.

I'm the guy who bring you over here.

They accuse me and they arrest me.

How can they arrest you?

You're already arrested.

They phone Phnom Penh about me.

I want some cigarettes.

And I need to take a leak.

Would you tell them I need to piss?

He said, "No piss."

What does that mean?

That's no piss.

I've had enough of this bullshit.

I got a story to get to New York!

Don't leave me!

I won't leave you.

They brought in the whole press corps!

They want to sanitize the story!

Bastards!

I am going to tell you something.

I'm walking out of here.

What are you gonna do?

Blow my head off?

You got a general out there,

this is an American passport...

...and I am walking out of here!

- He wants to get higher officer.

- Then get him! Get him!

I'm sorry we couldn't show you the

minor bomb damage in the city itself.

It's still a restricted area.

Now, if you look across the river...

...you'll see positions held by

Khmer Rouge...

...who moved in over

the past few days.

But the Cambodian Republican Army

is moving in on them.

They'll have the K.R. Out

before you can say "Jack Robinson."

Get in the chopper now!

No, Schanberg! You came on a boat,

you go back on a boat!

That won't stop my story!

What is this?

If you weren't down here,

I wouldn't be down here.

And I don't want to be down here!

What good is it doing?

If anybody ever reads about this...

...you won't be able to look them

in the face!

Good morning.

What time is it?

Six o'clock.

Sh*t.

Telex for you.

You been to the telex?

We made the front page.

Sure.

We must be doing something right.

My wife is very worried.

She thinks all foreign journalists

are going to leave Cambodia.

Well, Pran...

...l'd feel kind of stupid trying to

cover this war from a desk in Bangkok.

And she said if the war

keeps going like this...

...the future could be very bad.

What do you think?

I don't know.

I don't know either.

- Is Sarun downstairs?

- Sure.

Let's get going.

All right.

Don't go back to sleep.

I won't.

K.R.'s making a push

for the airport road.

If they cut it,

the city could be lost.

We hype these people up. "You'll be

all right with us," we say.

Now look at all this f***ing mess!

In America, everybody got a good car.

He ask you what car you drive

in United States.

I don't have a car in America,

only the Mercedes here.

Mercedes, number one!

Ask him where he learned

to speak his English.

American advisor with his unit

teach him.

Mercedes, number one, okay?

What did he say?

He said he thought all

American people left already.

Made in the USA.

Are we winning?

No, you're not winning.

What should we do?

Well, you make sure they don't

cut off the airport road.

The first section came

by Route number 36.

And the second one

came down by Route number 26.

Khmer Rouge will come down Route 3.

He doesn't know how many.

They expect an attack today.

- Where's your commander?

- Phnom Penh.

- Why there?

- Don't know.

How many mortar rounds you have...?

Rockoff, get your ass out here!

Get out here!

Come on, let's get him out of here!

- F*** this!

- They pulling out?

I'm not happy here, Syd.

Jon, I'm leaving.

Syd, come on!

Come on!

Sydney, this way!

Sydney, look! Khmer Rouge!

In Washington, the

Cambodian ambassador...

...in a speech to

the Washington Press Club said:

"Let's face it, you took

advantage of us."

I can't eat.

"You are cleverer than we are, and

you induced us into this fighting."

Indeed, the Khmer Rouge

insurgents in Cambodia...

...have tightened their ring

around the capital, Phnom Penh...

...now swollen with some two million

refugees from the fighting.

Reports from government troops talk

of the field situation being so bad...

...that soldiers are having

to siphon gas from jeep to jeep...

...in order to be able to get

the wounded back to the capital.

No more electricity.

And now I get a message

to try for negotiations.

Well, it's just too goddamn late!

Alan, this country's split apart.

We put this ship to sea, and it breaks

my heart not to help it back to port.

Any port.

What pisses me off is, this country

has faults and strengths...

...and we have done nothing

but play to the faults.

I tell you, I will be damn

glad to get out of here.

This thing has dragged on too long for

it to end in all sweetness and light.

After what the Khmer Rouge

have been through...

...they won't be exactly

affectionate toward Westerners.

- Where do you want this?

- On the floor. Anywhere.

- Mr. Schanberg...

- Oh, Christ, my dependents! Six.

Dith Pran and family.

Right.

"Dear sir, my family and I are planning

a touring vacation of Southeast Asia...

...and anticipate two weeks

in Cambodia touring the country.

Would you please send tour

information and brochures?

Thanking you in advance,

Wendell Payne."

Wendell lives in Wisacky,

South Carolina.

What about the airlift?

We're taking it with us.

- People will starve to death.

- I know, but what can we do?

Look, there could be a bloodbath here.

Excuse the pun, but we're

either staying or we're living.

Hello, leaving a sinking ship then,

are we, Carver?

President Ford, in his foreign policy

speech, hardly referred to Cambodia...

...except to say that, as of now,

it may be too late.

I'm sorry. I'm late.

Where you been?

- They stop me because of the curfew.

- The curfew, huh?

Yes. I'm sorry.

Get started on this.

Tell them to start sending this out...

...but hold the last two paragraphs.

I'll have corrections in an hour.

They don't transmit today.

The transmitter at Kambol got hit.

They say 6 p.m. We can file.

6 p.m.

What do you think this is?

A monthly magazine?

This is a newspaper.

How about update tomorrow?

Yeah, sure. We can file

an update tomorrow.

I was over at the

American Embassy yesterday.

Good news?

No, not good news.

They say that when

this place goes up...

...they think a lot of people

will be killed. A lot of people.

I've arranged for the evacuation

of you and your family.

So now it's up to you.

What do you want to do?

Do you want to stay

or leave?

And how about you?

That's none of your business.

Do you want to stay,

or do you want to leave?

I know.

You love my family.

But me, I'm reporter too.

You know what I mean?

All right, we don't have

to decide this right now.

Take it easy.

But we'll have to make up our

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