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very pleased to say that we're joined here in the studio by the filmmaker herself julia rufus lovely to see you giuliana you were one of the 1st people to report on this internationally how did you even come across a story like this i'm actually quite interested in psychology and i was attending a conference on trauma and it was a global conference and there was a psychologist sociologist from cambodia and she'd been working on that issue because a lot of the children were damaged psychologically and she told me about it and i thought it was astounding that this really wasn't an issue that was known about. tell us about the children who you met there 1st of all we used the word orphans are they all technically what we would believe to be orphans yeah i mean that was really the 1st thing that i was interested in the vast majority of the children in these so-called orphanages actually do have parents and they there are people who go around and who effectively recruit these children they say to the parents that the children are going to get great education that they'll be in touch with lots of best western

very pleased to say that we're joined here in the studio by the filmmaker herself julia rufus lovely to see you giuliana you were one of the 1st people to report on this internationally how did you even come across a story like this i'm actually quite interested in psychology and i was attending a conference on trauma and it was a global conference and there was a psychologist sociologist from cambodia and she'd been working on that issue because a lot of the children were damaged psychologically and she told me about it and i thought it was astounding that this really wasn't an issue that was known about. tell us about the children he met there 1st of all we use the word orphans are they all technically what we would believe to be orphans yeah i mean that was really the 1st thing that i was interested in the vast majority of the children in these so-called orphanages actually do have parents and they there are people who go around and who effectively recruit these children they say to the parents that the children are going to get great education that they'll be in touch with lots of best westerners an