Mia Farrow Confronted By Cambodian Police
Actress Mia Farrow was in Cambodia to attend a memorial ceremony at the Khmer Rouge prison, when she and her group were forcefully pushed aside by Cambodian police.
The Cambodian government had barred the ceremony several days ago and police on Sunday sealed off all roads leading to the Khmer Rouge’s infamous Tuol Sleng prison, which is now a genocide museum.
The American actress and her group arrived at one of the barricades and refused to go away, according to an Associated Press reporter at the scene. Police started pushing the group, which eventually returned to a waiting car and drove off. Nobody appeared to have gotten hurt.
Farrow is one of many people trying to bring attention to Darfur and is aligned with the US group, Dream for Darfur. The group claims China continues to sell weapons to the Sudanese and fund the genocide.
She had planned to light an Olympic-style torch outside the former prison to send a message to China - the next Olympic host and one of Sudan’s major trading partners - to press the Sudanese government to end abuses in Darfur.
More than 200,000 people have died in Darfur since 2003 when ethnic African rebels took arms against the Arab-dominated central government. Khartoum denies accusations it committed widespread war crimes.
The Cambodian government, which has strong economic and political ties with China, said days ago it would prevent the 62-year-old actress from going through with the ceremony. The government accused Farrow of having ”a political agenda against China” and staging the event for political rather than humanitarian reasons.
Farrow denied that her intentions were political in an interview Saturday, and said she was determined to press ahead with the ceremony.
Farrow was accompanied by her son Ronan at the Cambodian site.
photo source: A/P
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