Kambol (Phnom Penh, Cambodia). 17/08/2009: Martine Lefeuvre, 57-year-old civil party and wife of Ouk Ket, who was executed at S-21, on Day 59 of the trial of Kaing Guek Eav at the ECCC (Photo: John Vink/ Magnum)18-08-2009
By Stéphanie Gée
Ka-set
Monday August 17th, the relatives of victims who disappeared at S-21, the death anteroom ran by Duch, started testifying. Foreigners were the first civil parties to appear: at the stand, a French woman and her daughter, then a New Zealander, cried out their suffering and disgust towards the accused. They revealed the extent of the destruction of their families, forever in mourning. Faced with their anger, or even hatred, the accused, drowned under the voice of the victims, proved highly sober in his comments and took a self-flagellation stance.
Searching for a disappeared husband
Mrs Martine Lefeuvre lost her husband at S-21, a Cambodian engineer-diplomat, with whom she had two children. The French woman, who lives at Le Mans, married in 1971 and followed her husband Ouk Ket to Senegal, where he had been appointed third secretary. In April 1977, the latter received a notice from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, asking him to return to Phnom Penh. He went there, without his family, convinced he would participate to the rebuilding of his country. Very soon, Mrs Lefeuvre was without news from him. She then started seeking any information about him, knocking on every door, first the Chinese Embassy, as her husband previously stayed in Beijing, but also Amnesty International, the International Red Cross. She met with Cambodian delegations with the obsession to find her husband’s trace. To no avail.
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Searching for a disappeared husband
Mrs Martine Lefeuvre lost her husband at S-21, a Cambodian engineer-diplomat, with whom she had two children. The French woman, who lives at Le Mans, married in 1971 and followed her husband Ouk Ket to Senegal, where he had been appointed third secretary. In April 1977, the latter received a notice from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, asking him to return to Phnom Penh. He went there, without his family, convinced he would participate to the rebuilding of his country. Very soon, Mrs Lefeuvre was without news from him. She then started seeking any information about him, knocking on every door, first the Chinese Embassy, as her husband previously stayed in Beijing, but also Amnesty International, the International Red Cross. She met with Cambodian delegations with the obsession to find her husband’s trace. To no avail.
1 comment:
It had been thirty years since the fall of Khmer Rourge regime. It's past now we all should look for the future. Stop fighting Khmer and Khmer.
We start to get some of these White Male and Female come to testify the death of their family. I don't understand whatelse do they want. If Duch is ending up to go to jail. What's the FUCKING deal do they want?
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