PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT
The Association of Khmer Rouge Victims in Cambodia (AKRVC)
is pleased to present a video clip of Madam OUM Sophany, a prolific writer and editor of the Nou Hach Literary Journal, delivering lyrics she wrote about suffering endured during the Khmer Rouge years. The impromptu performance was delivered at CJR’s
National Conference on Victims Participation – MOVING FORWARD, TOGETHER:
Transforming Killing Fields to Healing, Living Fields.
Video at www.akrvc.org
is pleased to present a video clip of Madam OUM Sophany, a prolific writer and editor of the Nou Hach Literary Journal, delivering lyrics she wrote about suffering endured during the Khmer Rouge years. The impromptu performance was delivered at CJR’s
National Conference on Victims Participation – MOVING FORWARD, TOGETHER:
Transforming Killing Fields to Healing, Living Fields.
Video at www.akrvc.org
Inhuman Crime
Leave, leave, leave, I now leave you Phnom Penh,
With endless suffering,
I knew there was no liberty since the first day.
Stop, stop, stop [water from flowing], we built dikes and dams, and dug canals,
We were so worried, but that was the so-called “knowledge.”
The university which only taught how to dig and carry,
There was no need for proper schooling.
Standing on the rice-field dike, expecting to be relieved,
But I suffered even more,
As I was separated from my parents and other relatives.
Propose, propose, propose, when cooperatives propose to take someone,
One needs to be mentally prepared,
If the person never came back, be sure that they were smashed.
Poor Khmer!
AKRVC is in association with the
Center for Justice and Reconciliation
______________________________With endless suffering,
I knew there was no liberty since the first day.
Stop, stop, stop [water from flowing], we built dikes and dams, and dug canals,
We were so worried, but that was the so-called “knowledge.”
The university which only taught how to dig and carry,
There was no need for proper schooling.
Standing on the rice-field dike, expecting to be relieved,
But I suffered even more,
As I was separated from my parents and other relatives.
Propose, propose, propose, when cooperatives propose to take someone,
One needs to be mentally prepared,
If the person never came back, be sure that they were smashed.
Poor Khmer!
AKRVC is in association with the
Center for Justice and Reconciliation
For more information, please contact:
Ms. OUM Sophany, AKRVC member: 012 829 832
Ms. MORM Sokly, AKRVC president: president@akrvc.org
Mr. SOK Leang, CJR Victims Advocacy & Outreach Manager: sokleang@cjr-cambodia.org
Ms. Jenny Bombasaro-Brady, CJR Public Relations Manager: jennifer@cjr-cambodia.org
4 comments:
It is my sincere hope that Ms. Oum Sophany does not end up like the unfortunate Thouch Srey Nitch.
It is quite perilous when the recording artist (s) mix with sympathy and politics.
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WOW! WOW! It sound so great and GRANDER! We stand up at last?
Sinc most of of Cambodian were the victime of the Khmer Rouge, inside or outside the country exept some Khmer rouge! This Association president will have more power than the King!
You will get Moon from the association president ah Kwack!
Are they glorifying or minimining the National tratergy?
Would the clime to represent the death victimes too?
Are they glorifying or minimine the National tratergy?
Would they claime to represent the death victimes too?
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