Elena Lesley
The Phnom Penh Post
Former S-21 deputy Mam Nay did indeed begin testifying today, although his much-anticipated appearance was somewhat anticlimactic. For the most part, the 76-year-old, bundled in a krama and gloves, claimed he couldn't remember much about his work under Comrade Duch.
He told judges that, despite his status as an interrogator at S-21, he did not torture prisoners. Moreover, he claimed that the detainees brought to him looked neither malnourished nor mistreated -- a comment met with disbelief by many audience members.
Mam became most passionate toward the end of the day, when explaining how he believed all of the Vietnamese brought to S-21 were somehow guilty.
“I strongly believe they were invaders of Cambodian territory," he told Judge Jean-Marc Lavergne emphatically. "None of them was innocent. They grabbed Cambodian territory!”
When Lavergne asked if he had any regrets, Mam responded that he regretted that his country had been invaded by foreigners, first the Americans and then the Vietnamese.
His testimony will continue tomorrow.
He told judges that, despite his status as an interrogator at S-21, he did not torture prisoners. Moreover, he claimed that the detainees brought to him looked neither malnourished nor mistreated -- a comment met with disbelief by many audience members.
Mam became most passionate toward the end of the day, when explaining how he believed all of the Vietnamese brought to S-21 were somehow guilty.
“I strongly believe they were invaders of Cambodian territory," he told Judge Jean-Marc Lavergne emphatically. "None of them was innocent. They grabbed Cambodian territory!”
When Lavergne asked if he had any regrets, Mam responded that he regretted that his country had been invaded by foreigners, first the Americans and then the Vietnamese.
His testimony will continue tomorrow.
9 comments:
well, it not that hard to understand the reason. firstly, the stupid KR regime made cambodia and our khmer people so weak by starving and deprived medical care, deprived freedom, deprived justice, and abusing and instill fear in khmer people. so that's that the vietnamese took advantage of a weak cambodia then. so, whose stupid fault was that? it was the dumb-ass, ignorant KR regime that cause people's suffering and made the country of weak due to their killing field policy and so on. so, don't act so stupid again! think about it! during that time, people were killed and abused for no apparent reason other than hatred, jealousy, being like a frog in the well type of mentality, uncompetency KR regime, injustice, the list goes on and on! ignorance kills, you know!
one thing cambodia can and should learn this history is to never allow our khmer people to remain ignorant again. educate and give every khmer people and citizen the opportunity and access to school, higher learning, etc... because ignorance is the root of all evil, really, buddha noted that over two thousand years ago. do learn from the wised ones, i.e. lord buddha, jesus, etc...
Dear friends,
I was a student of this stupid teacher in Lycee Kampong Thom (1964). I do not believe him in not torturing prisoners under his interrogation in S-21. He was not torturing himself but asking his mates to do so.
He regrets that the liberation of Cambodia by the National United Front for Salvation of Kampuchea with the assistance of the Vietnamese army which led to 5.5 million innocent Cambodians and build a society up to 15 million Cambodians nowaday. Who wants to deny the fact of this liberation that called by some treacherous persons as an invasion of Vietnam.
I can say that without this invasion my skull and your skull would be broken by the children in Moung Russei (Battambang), in Leach (Pursat), ... Because we remember that the KR said that in 1979 they must smash many more people in order to select for only a 1.5 million Khmers and mixed with the Chineses for a new clean generation to build a real communism in Cambodia. It is now called by the West as a utopia communism.
Mam Nay was a communist since 1960 and was arrested in 1969 by Police. He is a bad guy who did not tell the truth until his former bost force him to confest as the Communist Party of Kampuchea (Angkar) was the main icon in charge of the killing fields in Cambodia (1970-1998).
He must be tried for a million year in jail as well as the other Khmer Rouge cadres (Nuon Chea, Khieu Samphan, Ieng Sary, Ieng Thirith, ...) for their crimes of killing 4.5 million innocent Cambodians.
One guy kills a person = in jail for 25 years so they killed 4.5 million people and what happen to them?
Mam Nay or Ta Samreng? Because of his skin disease (Khluong Ropeou).
That why he always wears like he is from North Pole in this hot climate Cambodia.
Thank for your kind consideration.
Ly
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Ly , are you a mixed chinese or a mixed vietnamese ?
12:48 PM,
Hanoi wit Ho Chi Ming had planned since 1930 to take over the whole of French Indochina
Hanoi gave birth to the Khmer Rouge
Hanoi endoctrinatedb the KR
Hanoi armed the KR to murder Khmer people for Viet leaders.
Hanoi did not Liberate Caambodia but INVADE Cambodia,
Hanoi, now, raped all kind of Khmer Ressources: Angkor Wat, Fishstock in Tonle Sap with over 3 millions Viets on floating villages, deforestation, lands grabbibgs, murdered Khmer nationalists.
You're blindn like your master Hun Kh'vang Ma khak, Viet puppet prime minister for life, a Khmer people murderer, a traitor of Khmer nation
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“I strongly believe they were invaders of Cambodian territory,"
Hanoi, now, raped all kind of Khmer Ressources: Angkor Wat, Fishstock in Tonle Sap with over 3 millions Viets on floating villages, deforestation, lands grabbibgs, murdered Khmer nationalists.
These Viet are worse than any demons imaginable.
We'll see true face of the demons after the trial.
12:48 PM real name is Van Phuk.
Xia Xia!
12:48 PM is an old fart....hahaha!
The real savior would never take any advantages of the victims. Vietnam is not a savior when he has been trying to churn every single resource of Cambodia.
Vietnam was the one who put the flame on Cambodia house, almost completely burnt to ashes then he just pour a few buckets of water to put it out to make the remnant appreciate his evil deed.
Hope anh LY realizing that not all Khmer citizens are stupid.
Those viets who invaded Cambodia in 1979 are criminals. Cambodia should file criminal lawsuit through the UN to arrest those viets who invaded Cambodia.
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