By VOA Khmer, Yann Ker
Video Editor: Manilene Ek
27 August 2009
The brother of a New Zealand man tortured and killed by the Khmer Rouge on Monday (August 17) had a courtroom confrontation with the man who had him executed, wishing him a similar gruesome fate.
Kerry Hamill was 28 when he was captured by the Khmer Rouge after his yacht was blown off course into Cambodian waters in 1978. He and a shipmate were taken to Phnom Penh's notorious S-21 prison.
About a dozen Westerners were among the estimated 16-thousand people held there before being put to death in 1975-79.
His brother, Rob Hamill, wept as he testified on Monday at the genocide trial of S-21's commander, Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch.
Rob Hamil: “Duch, at times I have wanted to smash you, to use your words. In the same way that you smashed so many others. At times I've imagined you shackled, stabbed, whipped and clubbed viciously, viciously! I have imagined your scrotum electrified, being forced to eat your own faeces, being nearly drowned and having your throat cut."
Earlier this week, Duch asked the Cambodian people to give him "the harshest punishment." Duch is being tried for crimes against humanity, war crimes, murder and torture.
Up to 16-thousand people were tortured under his command and later killed during the Khmer Rouge's 1975-1979 rule. Only a handful survived.
Duch later became an evangelical Christian and worked for international aid organisations after the ouster of the Khmer Rouge. Duch is the first of five senior Khmer Rouge figures scheduled to face long-delayed trials and the only one to acknowledge responsibility for his actions. His trial, which started in March, is expected to finish by the end of the year. He could face a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. Cambodia has no death penalty.
Information for this report was provided by APTN.
Kerry Hamill was 28 when he was captured by the Khmer Rouge after his yacht was blown off course into Cambodian waters in 1978. He and a shipmate were taken to Phnom Penh's notorious S-21 prison.
About a dozen Westerners were among the estimated 16-thousand people held there before being put to death in 1975-79.
His brother, Rob Hamill, wept as he testified on Monday at the genocide trial of S-21's commander, Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch.
Rob Hamil: “Duch, at times I have wanted to smash you, to use your words. In the same way that you smashed so many others. At times I've imagined you shackled, stabbed, whipped and clubbed viciously, viciously! I have imagined your scrotum electrified, being forced to eat your own faeces, being nearly drowned and having your throat cut."
Earlier this week, Duch asked the Cambodian people to give him "the harshest punishment." Duch is being tried for crimes against humanity, war crimes, murder and torture.
Up to 16-thousand people were tortured under his command and later killed during the Khmer Rouge's 1975-1979 rule. Only a handful survived.
Duch later became an evangelical Christian and worked for international aid organisations after the ouster of the Khmer Rouge. Duch is the first of five senior Khmer Rouge figures scheduled to face long-delayed trials and the only one to acknowledge responsibility for his actions. His trial, which started in March, is expected to finish by the end of the year. He could face a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. Cambodia has no death penalty.
Information for this report was provided by APTN.
6 comments:
Chakrupot Americ bombed in Cambodia during the 1970s and did not help Cambodia. I’ve been watching the news regarding the Khmer Rouge trail, I do not know when it would be over, probably until all Khmer (Cambodian) death and then it is over of the Khmer Rouge trail and there won’t be any more Cambodia country on the face of the earth. Let’s take a look at the daily life style of the Phnom Penh people who I can’t identify them if they are real Khmer or not, only the dark one like me I can identify. I reside in the Western part in Siam Reap; I don’t see this kind of people in where I am. If I do I would be dare taking care of it. I don’t want foreigner to come to my country and start to change Khmer tradition and culture and turn Cambodia down. I wish I could go back to the revolutionary living tradition, every body was very clean. The victory day of April 17, 1975, the wealthy, educator arrogant people Angkar took care of it; democratic Kampuchea did not keep those enemies. I committed to following revolutionary Angkar, I saluted Angkar what Angkar put me through. So Cambodian abroad must stand up fight with any enemy who wants to destroy Cambodia, forget the Khmer Rouge (Khmer), remember we all Khmer. It is vesting of time; we should put the money to save poor Cambodian instead.
(Those who writes long sentence like a whole book I won’t read it. Thanks.)
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Angkor Wat belong to Vietcong now ,what will you do?
KHmer will never stop and rest until the main sources behind the killing of khmer brought to rest!
American bombed Cambodia in 1970 for reasons. Without bombardement, Viet communists will win over Lon Nol regime in two weeks just like the Viet eliminated
Pol Pot in the same timeframe in1979. The Viet invaded our country in 1970 under the pretext of helping Sihanouk back in power but in reality the viet had different agenda in mind: take over our Khmer land. During the process of fighting Lon Nol army, in just 24 hours, with long time war experience, more men, and more war machines, they quickly conquer more territory from Lon Nol. They then allowed Pol Pot to recruits the fighters among the people in liberated zone and trained those guerrilla to fights against the Lon Nol army. The Viet kept on doing it until Pol Pot had the abibility to fight with Lon Nol' army by themselves. The Viet then withdraw from Cambodia 1973, leaving Khmers to fight Khmers. Support from U.S. did not even help due to corruption among Lon Nol's administration. In 1975, Lon Nol lost to Khmer Rouge, and the population as whole suffered the consequences imposed upon us by the Khmer Rouge. Once Pol Pot in power, he fell into Viet's trict. In three years period, Pol Pot starved, killed million of his people; thus make khmer nation weaker. In 1978, Viet saw an opportunity to eliminate Pol's regime and invade Cambodia and control it until now.
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