002/19-09-2007-ECCC-OCIJ ЮŲŠ / No: D427 country, country defense, especially building up of country’s rural areas. We shoot (films) of their activities from start to finish”.317 106. Filming was seen as an important way to involve the public in the policies of the Party as explained at a working meeting on 1 June 1976: “Generally speaking, filming is an important matter. The public really demand it. If they see the updated situation, they are happy because they show their masterpiece and they represent their own story”.318 107. Photography was seen as second to filming and the only guidance given was to take pictures of ceremonies, or foreign guests for documentary purpose.319 There was a photography and cinematography section at the Soviet Technological School under the Ministry of Propaganda.320 Public Radio 108. Radio was seen as the principal method to disseminate the revolutionary idea among the people by the leadership.321 In this regard, guidelines were given on interviewing people in the zones, on how news would be announced, and on what other programs would be aired.322 Chinese experts were consulted for the technical establishment of radio broadcasting.323 109. Prior to 1975, the CPK possessed a mobile broadcast radio in Steung Trang District.324 Songs were taped in Steung Trang and then sent to the main radio station of FUNK in Hanoi,325 which was headed by Ieng Thirith in 1973,326 while the technical work was provided by the Vietnamese.327 The mobile radio unit, which was in place and broadcasting during the evacuation of Phnom Phnom, was transferred to the capital and became the only broadcast unit in the country.328 110. The Ministry of Propaganda there was a group of writers, the interview section, the writing section and the editing section.329 Radio broadcasts featured international news extracted from the international radio and domestic news published by the Ministry which circulated mainly around the praise of rural cooperatives and the achievements of the regime the Party line, the leadership of the Party and speeches, the defence of the country and followed an educational purpose.330 111. News was also extracted from radio channels from Vietnam, China, Laos and Thailand. No news criticizing Democratic Kampuchea was broadcasted.331 Broadcasts also featured English and Vietnamese speaking programs and there were preparations to broadcast in Thai.332 Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, National Road 4, Choam Chao, Dangkao Phnom Penh Mailing address: P.O. Box 71, Phnom Penh; Tel: +855(0)23 218914 Fax: +855(0) 23 218941. 32