Original report from Phnom Penh
02 September 2009
Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch told a UN-backed court Wednesday Pol Pot’s revolutionary vision recreated education, the economy and religion, creating a struggle among Cambodians for survival.
“The wildly jumping education domain was a new education system never seen, which was a dream” of Pol Pot, Duch said in his hearing, responding to questioning from judges.
“The economic domain consisted of only two classes, farmers and workers,” he said. “Productivity belonged to communism. We worked hard, and we only had food two times [a day]. The economy was changed, and the religion was also.”
Duch, 66, whose real name is Kaing Kek Iev, is facing charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity, torture and murder for his role as head of a prison system blamed for the deaths of at least 12,380 people.
In testimony Wednesday, he highlighted a preeminent philosophy of the paranoid regime.
“The principle of the policy was: the children of the enemy were the enemy, so you must not keep them, for fear of revenge,” he said.
“The wildly jumping education domain was a new education system never seen, which was a dream” of Pol Pot, Duch said in his hearing, responding to questioning from judges.
“The economic domain consisted of only two classes, farmers and workers,” he said. “Productivity belonged to communism. We worked hard, and we only had food two times [a day]. The economy was changed, and the religion was also.”
Duch, 66, whose real name is Kaing Kek Iev, is facing charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity, torture and murder for his role as head of a prison system blamed for the deaths of at least 12,380 people.
In testimony Wednesday, he highlighted a preeminent philosophy of the paranoid regime.
“The principle of the policy was: the children of the enemy were the enemy, so you must not keep them, for fear of revenge,” he said.
3 comments:
right on! we are learning something new about pol pot stupid revolutionary vision everyday that caused great suffering to cambodia and khmer people during that era.
"Pol Pot’s revolutionary vision recreated education, the economy and religion, creating a struggle among Cambodians for survival.
“The wildly jumping education domain was a new education system never seen, which was a dream” of Pol Pot, Duch said in his hearing, responding to questioning from judges.
“The economic domain consisted of only two classes, farmers and workers,” he said. “Productivity belonged to communism. We worked hard, and we only had food two times [a day]. The economy was changed, and the religion was also.”
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the above quotes from Mr Duch are full of manipulation. the fact of the matter is pol pot never had a vision for anything. the khmer rouge destroyed religion, education and people. Stop manipulating the story and lying about pol pot's vision mr Duch.
That is the tricks of former Khmer Rouge, they has min. 2 Names for they life. The question who kill Khmer?
1. Answer: is Kaing Kek Iev (Duch, 66) the Khmer Name?
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