Press Release: Rob Hamill
New Zealander Rob Hamill strongly rejects the headlines circulating in world media claiming he wishes to kill Duch, the Khmer Rouge commander of the camp where his brother Kerry was murdered in 1978.
In his testimony to the Extraordinary Court Chambers of Cambodia yesterday, Mr Hamill said he had at times in the past thirty-one years imagined Duch suffering the same torture inflicted on so many people, but he has never wanted to action those terrible thoughts. Mr Hamill made it clear yesterday that he is never going to give in to those feelings, that the testimony itself was part of the healing process and he was pushing the emotional burden of the crimes back on to Duch.
"I do NOT want to kill or cause any physical harm to Duch," Mr Hamill says.
"To want to kill another human being in retribution is to lower yourself to the level of the perpetrators of such heinous crimes."
"I am totally opposed to the death penalty. When the state executes people, it is the ultimate form of premeditation, and we are all made to be complicit."
In his testimony to the Extraordinary Court Chambers of Cambodia yesterday, Mr Hamill said he had at times in the past thirty-one years imagined Duch suffering the same torture inflicted on so many people, but he has never wanted to action those terrible thoughts. Mr Hamill made it clear yesterday that he is never going to give in to those feelings, that the testimony itself was part of the healing process and he was pushing the emotional burden of the crimes back on to Duch.
"I do NOT want to kill or cause any physical harm to Duch," Mr Hamill says.
"To want to kill another human being in retribution is to lower yourself to the level of the perpetrators of such heinous crimes."
"I am totally opposed to the death penalty. When the state executes people, it is the ultimate form of premeditation, and we are all made to be complicit."
3 comments:
Great idea! Now we can spend millions of riel for the next 15 years so Duch can live with free food, free housing, free TV/radio, free bodyguards, until he dies by natural cause
All at Khmer taxpaper's expense. And while 5 million taxpayer khmai go to bed hungry, they can rest assured that YUTETHOA means Duch gets food all his rest of life.
ECCC in CPP control shows that foreign victim/s or organizational view weighs more than the nearly 2 million Khmer victims.
Lack of self respect and dignity appears to be CPP natural attitude.
http://bno-documentary.blogspot.com/2009/06/blessing-day-shoot-nz.html
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