Written by Bethany Murphy
Letter to The Phnom Penh Post
Dear Editor,
I read with horror about Dr Jarvis's appointment to head the Victims' Unit. Youk Chhang, the head of DC-Cam, is by far the most experienced professional insofar as outreach to the Cambodian people and the outside world about the genocide and the Tribunal.... The fact that Chhang was not offered the position, or even asked about the appointment, speaks volumes about the ineptitude and corruption which has marked the Tribunal from the outset. The fact that Dr Jarvis is neither a Cambodian nor a victim of the regime is offensive, but not shocking.
The appointment of overpaid foreigners in NGOs and UN agencies is nothing new in Cambodia. The glaring offence is not her ethnicity, however, but her political ties and alliances. In a letter from just three years ago she signed to the following: "In time of revolution and civil war, the most extreme measures will sometimes become necessary and justified."
This kind of speech is something that the Khmer Rouge themselves subscribed to, and it is Marxist ideology that led to the deaths of roughly 2 million people in Cambodia, which created the necessity for a Khmer Rouge tribunal and a Victims' Unit in the first place. The philosophy that the "ends justify the means" in the pursuit of creating a communist nation is something that Pol Pot himself was a champion of. Having Dr Jarvis head the Victims' Unit of the Khmer Rouge tribunal and Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia is akin to having a Nazi Party member running victim relations at the Nuremburg Trial for Josef Mengele, the "Doctor" and head of torture at Auschwitz.
Bethany Murphy
Washington, DC
The appointment of overpaid foreigners in NGOs and UN agencies is nothing new in Cambodia. The glaring offence is not her ethnicity, however, but her political ties and alliances. In a letter from just three years ago she signed to the following: "In time of revolution and civil war, the most extreme measures will sometimes become necessary and justified."
This kind of speech is something that the Khmer Rouge themselves subscribed to, and it is Marxist ideology that led to the deaths of roughly 2 million people in Cambodia, which created the necessity for a Khmer Rouge tribunal and a Victims' Unit in the first place. The philosophy that the "ends justify the means" in the pursuit of creating a communist nation is something that Pol Pot himself was a champion of. Having Dr Jarvis head the Victims' Unit of the Khmer Rouge tribunal and Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia is akin to having a Nazi Party member running victim relations at the Nuremburg Trial for Josef Mengele, the "Doctor" and head of torture at Auschwitz.
Bethany Murphy
Washington, DC
2 comments:
Thanks Bethany Murphy.
The ECCC is under controlling of Nazi Party in Pnom Penh.
Thanks for posting this. The editor of the PPP left out one quote from the letter that Dr. Jarvis signed to in 2006, which, I feel, is too crucial to leave out. The entire quote from the Leninist Party of Australia, of which Dr. Jarvis of a member, reads:
"We too are Marxists and believe that 'the ends justify the means.' In time of revolution and civil war, the most extreme measures will sometimes become necessary and justified. Against the bourgeoisie and their state agencies we don't respect their laws and their fake moral principles."
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