Monday, August 03, 2009

Brutal Khmer Rouge history comes to school curriculum

August 3, 2009
ABC Radio Australia

It was one of the most brutal periods of recent history and saw up to 2 million Cambodians killed by overwork and paranoid purges. And yet the rule of the Khmer Rouge from 1975 to 1979 was completely left out of the official history of Cambodia for a generation of schoolchildren.

Now, with a UN-backed tribunal underway for five top Khmer Rouge leaders, Cambodia's government will include a text on the Khmer Rouge in its 2009 high school curriculum. Half a million copies of A History of Democratic Kampuchea are being distributed to more than 1,300 schools across the country for grades nine through 12.

Presenter: Sonja Heydeman
Speaker: Youk Chhang, Director of the Documentation Centre of Cambodia; Son Chhay, Opposition Member of Cambodia's Parliament

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime had committed:

Tortures
Executions
Massacres
Atrocities
Crimes Against Humanity
Starvations
Overwork to Death
Slavery
Rapes
Human Abuses
Assault and Battery


Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime had committed:

Assassinations
Assassinate Journalists
Assassinate Political Opponents
Assassinate Leader of the Free Trade Union
Attempted Assassinations
Murders
Attempted Murders
Killings
Extrajudicial Execution
Grenade Attack
Terrorism
Drive by Shooting
Tortures
Intimidations
Death Threats
Threatening
Human Abductions
Human Rights Abuses
Human Trafficking
Drugs Trafficking
Under Age Child Sex
Corruptions
Bribery
Illegal Mass Evictions
Illegal Land Grabbing
Illegal Firearms
Illegal Logging
Illegal Deforestation
Illegally use of remote detonation on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and others military official on board.
Illegally Sold State Properties
Illegally Remove Parliamentary Immunity of Parliament Members
Plunder National Resources
Acid Attacks
Turn Cambodia into a Lawless Country
Oppression
Injustice
Steal Votes
Bring Foreigners from Veitnam to vote in Cambodia for Cambodian People's Party.
Abuse the Court as a tools for CPP to send political opponents and journalists to jail.
Abuse of Power
Abuse the Laws
Abuse the National Election Committee
Abuse the National Assembly
Violate the Laws
Violate the Constitution
Violate the Paris Accords
Impunity

Under Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime, no criminals that has been committed all of these crimes above within Hun Sen Khmer Rouge government have ever been brought to justice.

KE said...

It's good to distribute and the record of history for young generation to learn about the KR. But one disappointed view is that "If the KR Leaders are still not telling the truth about their political ideology and execution, the history is still hiding and invaluable. The value of history is the truth for next generation to learn for their future" ...

Those aged KR leaders should tell the true about the execution of Cambodian people and their political strategies before they end... As they can't live for longer and time is too short for them now..! The fact of the KR history will be nationally and worldly respected and learned by the whole world...!

Anonymous said...

here you can read it now at:
http://khmer-heroes.blogspot.com

Anonymous said...

UN forget to summon HUN SEN and Sihaknuk. With out those two the khmer rouge trial never ever called clear and JUSTICE.

Anonymous said...

Its about time! Make sure everyone is supported and pass on about this book and other like this book.

Anonymous said...

CPP (Corpses of Pol Pot)
PPU (Politic Pimping Union)