Monday, February 08, 2010

French priest on Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge tribunal

François Ponchaud

February 8, 2010
CathNews Asia

An interview with French Catholic in Cambodia priest Father Francois Ponchaud, who was one of the first people to denounce Khmer Rouge atrocities, at the start of the UN-backed war crimes court.

According to news reports, the court said in mid January that it has concluded its investigation and may begin a second trial by year’s end. A verdict for the first trial, of Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, is expected in coming months.


This video by AFP was posted on YouTube in February last year.

20 comments:

Takeo said...

Can the French and U.N. try Hun Sen on the crime against humanity, abused of human rights, abused of freedom of speech, money laundering, and forced evictions of the Khmer people.

Anonymous said...

François Ponchaud is not a priest but a french secret agent, Ponchaud prefer yuons and defend yuons beyond all crimes and evidences

Anonymous said...

priest ponchaud is right, no doubt what khmer rouge have done to its own ple. every body who commited the crime should be responsible for their acts. ponchaud is a generous, religious man, he doesn't involve in any politic party. he helped alot to khmer comunity, becuz he denounces the khmer rouge atrocities, it doesn;t mean he;s a trator.

Anonymous said...

Justice est pour tout,
Hun Sen le nouvel homme fort du Cambodge,un encien khmer rouge qui a fui le regime meutrier en 1977 et que les vietnamiens ont ramené dans leurs bagages pour instaler à la tête du Cambodge.
Vivre la Justice!

L` Ignorance est la source de la souffrance.

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=sVLTFmWX4VE

http://ki-media.blogspot.com/2009/04/9-lives-of-norodom-sihanouk-part-1-in.html

http://ki-media.blogspot.com/2009/04/9-lives-of-norodom-sihanouk-part-2-in.html

Anonymous said...

The UN is like hound dogs, they keep barking up at the wrong trees.
They specialize in the damage instead of preventing it.
They are laughing to the banks with the 100 of million of dollars they are spending on this crooked trial in the name of justice for all.

Anonymous said...

François Ponchaud is a criminal for trading crimes and defending the criminals, falsifying facts for the account of the criminals.

i wonder how this man yet with a still human appearance can sleep with these bloody crimes on his conscience or is he a worse guiltless being as the predator and psychopath of his kind.

Anonymous said...

Le drame Cambodgien reste toujours sans explication,car les khmers ne savent toujours pas quel en était exactement la cause.Ils ne peuvent pas distinguer entre les libérateurs et les agresseurs.
Vivre la Justice!

Anonymous said...

Justice is for all , Hun Sen the new strong man of Cambodia, an encien khmer rouge which fled the regime meutrier in 1977 and that Vietnamese returned in their luggage for instaler in the head of Cambodia.
Live the Justice!

Anonymous said...

These are no such liberators in Cambodia but there are yuons the ever assassins and aggressors who always exhibited itself as damn ass liberators. Die to these assassins

Anonymous said...

father ponchaud doesn't age much. he looks almost the same as 30 years ago.

Anonymous said...

father ponchaud can speak fluent khmer.

Anonymous said...

their are two groups of khmer rouge who did the killing in cambodia ,and why they only persecuted one group. it wasn't fair I hope father PONCHAUD,will tell the truth if you are father of god. please don't lie khmer people are watching you.

Anonymous said...

tell me who are the two groups behind the killing ?

Anonymous said...

tell me who are the two groups behind the killing ?

Anonymous said...

The KR trial suppose to bring justice for the Khmer victims dead and alive. The surviving victims would be able to bring closure to their tragedy, lost of love ones and suffering. So far the tribunal have not reached to the satisfactory achievement as expect because they are hindered by the CPP and Hun Sen who was also former KR soldiers, in fact are perpetrators. The court has a duty and a moral obligation to deliver justice to the Khmer victims. As long as the court operates in Cambodia, justice will not be served because the system have been compromised and giving in to the government manipulation.
The Khmer victims cannot say much because:
1- They lack of confident, are not assertive enough to present their views and suggestions due to their cultural and educational background
2- they are very afraid of the government and would not dare to say anything to upset them
3- They have not had enough skill or understanding to argue about their rights and very much are depending on the system and others to be their mouth, eyes and ears.
I don't understand why the UN still repeat such mistake like what they did with the Peace Keeping Mission in 1993 UNTAC and allow that to be re-emerge with similar pattern on the KR trial? they must have so much money to play with...
What is their integrity?

Anonymous said...

one or two group, they are all from yuons, brainwashed, trained to hate khmer and kill khmer by yuons

polpot turned to china while he known yuons want to kill him to replace by another yuon puppet, after all yuons control everything, even on polpot life and political destiny

Anonymous said...

yuons always remain its puppet, if you dont obey my orders or want to get away from me, i will destroy you into dirt. This is what youns did to all its puppets or tools like polpot, chan si, pen sovann, and the rest of yonns tools

Anonymous said...

i think isolation and ignorance are the real enemies of cambodia and khmer people. please learn to learn for yourself i.e. analytically and critically speaking, really. they're important personal growth skills to have in ourselves. otherwise we are not different from animals, if we can learn to think for ourselves. wake up already, ok!

Anonymous said...

father ponchaud, by using god, could help to reveal the truth about evil and god in cambodia. i think in cambodia, it's like a war between good and evil. people don't see it, but it's there. why are people can be so evil while others can be godly? if we analyze this concept in cambodia, perhaps, it will help shed light on some of the darkness there that we don't understand.

Anonymous said...

None of these posters above realy understood what Fr. Ponchaud has attempted to reveal the truth behind this KRT's conspiracy.
Looklike these posters struggled with language barrier.

Fr. Ponchaud blamed the Communist China and the US who supported KR then the two worked together behind after they ordered to kill Pol Pot after Pol Pot told BBC News that Vietnamese were in his country among his people who conspired with the superpower to put the Khmer Rouge in power after million KHmers were killed that is what he called a Hypocritical.

Fr. Ponchaud didn't directly blame Hanoi but blaming the US and China, but readers should understand he blamed the Vietnamese for trying to take Cambodia through this conflict.
Fr. Ponchaud works for no body but GOD. His mission is to help the poor people in Cambodia from being deceived by these criminals US, China and Vietnam.