Nhem En, former chief photographer at a torture center run by Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, talks to journalists inside U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2007. The U.S. ambassador to Cambodia praised him for for apologizing about his role in the regime that caused nearly 2 million deaths in the 1970s. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)Heng Reaksmey
VOA Khmer
Washington
25/01/2007
Tuol Sleng prison photographer Nhem An Thursday apologizes publicly for the first time in 30 years, for his role in the Pol Pot regime.
The forty-seven-year old Udor Mean Chey's deputy governor was hired to be a photographer in Tuol Sleng, where nearly 20,000 Cambodians were tortured and killed.
On Thursday, Nhem An expresses his regrets to the thousands of lives that died in Cambodia’s darkest prison. Also, Nhem has agreed to testify in the Khmer Rouge Tribunal as a witness at the torture site.
At the conference, hosted by the Cambodian Press Club and the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam), Nhem told reporters that he was not directly involved in the killing or torture of the detainees. Instead, he asserted that he was simply carrying out orders to take photographs for former Khmer Rouge leaders.
Many of Toul Sleng's prisoners died from starvation, torture devices, and brutal killings. It is reported that over a dozen Tuol Sleng's victims have survived, after the regime was toppled in 1979.
The forty-seven-year old Udor Mean Chey's deputy governor was hired to be a photographer in Tuol Sleng, where nearly 20,000 Cambodians were tortured and killed.
On Thursday, Nhem An expresses his regrets to the thousands of lives that died in Cambodia’s darkest prison. Also, Nhem has agreed to testify in the Khmer Rouge Tribunal as a witness at the torture site.
At the conference, hosted by the Cambodian Press Club and the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam), Nhem told reporters that he was not directly involved in the killing or torture of the detainees. Instead, he asserted that he was simply carrying out orders to take photographs for former Khmer Rouge leaders.
Many of Toul Sleng's prisoners died from starvation, torture devices, and brutal killings. It is reported that over a dozen Tuol Sleng's victims have survived, after the regime was toppled in 1979.
5 comments:
Lauk Nhem An doesn't have to apology for his trap in Khmer Rouge Regime.
Not only him alone..several thousand of them.
I would like to thank to Lauk Nhem An that made and preserved the secret history inside S21....No one else can do it.
Out of HIM there are so many cowards whom woudn't dare to take this crime responsible against Cambodia & its People.Such : Norodom Sihanouk,Noun Chea,Khieu Samphan ect..ect + Youn-Hanoi,Chen.
Cheers,
Bun Heang Ung
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Cambodians can be very funny. They apologise and pretend to be the resposible ones who happen to know nothing.
SiS
Yes of course ,Cambodian are the funniest people on Earth.
People didn't see Khmer-People traumatized whom had been living through the holocaust.
Cambodia is Tiny,Weak was used as the Cheapest Toll between the two World : The Red & The Blue.
The Cold War had destroyed Cambodia...from a paradise into a real Hell as we seen today.
To pay back your Cold War's Game,China & USA have to help us to kick Youn'Ass from Cambodia.
Cheers,
Bun H.
I tend to agree with SIS. ;-)
How can he apologise if he didn't even know who ordered the killings?
Ask me I will tell all of you this. Yuan Conspiracy creating the Genocide in Cambodia.
This man just wants to have his face in front of camera just like the flat nose black Monkey Hun Sen. ;-)
John Mark Karr claimed that he killed Jon Bonet Ramsey. All those Thai policemen and FBI escorted him and treated him so much care on the plane. Karr kept bragging that he killed and bla bli bloo
http://radio.javaranch.com/michael/2006/08/16/1155788658636.html
He became so famous but at the end the DNA showed not him who killed.
:-))))
Hello,
From the defense legal strategy, a person, whether he/she actually did or didn't do the crime, "should have never volunteered any statement and/or admitted to doing any crime" without his/her proper legal counsel representative.
Mr. Nhem An for having had inherited those sensitive physical evidents (photos), I assume, thought that he would make a fortune from those photos. However, under the current ruling party, Mr. Nhem An is taking a risky chance here. It could cause his own life (those photos contained all the KR leaders pictures).
As we all have been patiently anticipated for the KR Tribunal to conceive, any identifiable allegely accused person should be placed under protection program - they could serve as an "ace" for the country or vice versa.
I am looking forward to this historical event, but I am also very pessimistic about it. I don't believe that the eagle would be able to fly over and across the great wall.
Good night,
Somlor Ma-Chou Yuon
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