Cambodian students re-enact torture executed by the Khmer Rouge to mark the annual "Day of Anger" at Choeung Ek, 20 May 2010. (Photo: VOA - R. Carmichael)Robert Carmichael, VOA
Phnom Penh Friday, 21 May 2010
"Cambodian people respect the people who were killed in the Pol Pot regime," said Pa Socheatvong. "Pol Pot betrayed the country by using the people's blood as capital, so people [are] very angry with the Pol Pot regime."In Cambodia, May 20 is known as the Day of Anger.
Each year on this day, hundreds of Cambodians head to the Chhoeung Ek killing field site on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. There a ceremony is held and a play put on to recall the victims of the Khmer Rouge.
It is a time to remember the millions who died under Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime that ruled the country between 1975 and 1979.
More than 1,000 people gathered this year at the Chhoeung Ek memorial site outside Phnom Penh. There were hundreds of Buddhist monks, dignitaries, and many elderly people.
The key part of the ceremony is a macabre play staged by students. About a dozen are cast as black-clad Khmer Rouge soldiers; three dozen more are their victims.
With barked orders, gun shots, screams and tears, the Khmer Rouge and their victims act out the murders, just yards from the mass graves that form this notorious killing field where thousands died.
Pa Socheatvong is a deputy governor of Phnom Penh. He says May 20th was chosen because that was the day in 1976 when the Khmer Rouge instituted their policy to kill people.
"Cambodian people respect the people who were killed in the Pol Pot regime," said Pa Socheatvong. "Pol Pot betrayed the country by using the people's blood as capital, so people [are] very angry with the Pol Pot regime."
The performance by the students is chilling, realistic and disturbing. Many in the crowd wipe away tears during the 15-minute performance.
At the end of the play, other soldiers burst in with guns and Cambodian flags and drive away the Khmer Rouge.
That moment refers to the invasion in late 1978 by Vietnamese troops and Cambodians that saw the end of the Khmer Rouge rule of the country.
The man who sent so many people to their deaths here at the Chhoeung Ek killing field went on trial last year for crimes against humanity and war crimes. His name is Comrade Duch, and he admits he ran the S-21 torture and execution center in Phnom Penh. Judgment in his case is likely to be handed down in the coming weeks.
If Duch is found guilty - as is thought likely - he will be the first former Khmer Rouge to be sentenced for crimes committed at that time. It is a landmark case.
No-one knows how many people died during the Khmer Rouge's rule of Cambodia, estimates range from 1.5 million to three million.
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"Even a young monk who devotes himself to the teaching of the Buddha,illumines this world as does the moon freed from a cloud"
"yo-hak vétak hak-ror ,phikhu yugn chhati puthsané sor-imaing lokaing ,paphear séti akphea mutorvak munti mear"
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"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." - Buddha
Extrait Sihanouk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42RpbMAeiO4
Culture Revolution - Public execution & Impact
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIrUHVFkm9A&feature=related
Cambodge : JEUX De la MORT De SIHANOUK CONTRE YUON
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=FR&hl=fr&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
I wonder how many KI readers are seeing this and it reminds them of what they have done in the past.
I wonder...
'O monk understand that communism has no Buddha!
"Chhear-yak ,phiku mea -Chapak meator,meaté kamakunné,phak-masayak chitaing mealo-hatu,takhaing tili pakmator,mea kanthy tukhakmi toanti,dak-yak hak meanor"
"Meditate,O monk;do not be beedless.Do not let your mind revolve around the sensual pleasures.Do not ,through negligence swallow a ball of(red-hot)iron.As you are burnt,do not cry ' O what torture'."
This memory still haunt us evey day as long as Hun Sen's regime still exist. How can we forget the past if we are still linging in the past - oppression, torture, inimidation, Threatning... you name it.....
Let all Khmer help to rebuild our justice society starting from 2013.
I stiil have a dream wishing all the wonder miracles in the worlds especially the spirits of the victims who lost their innocent lives to the Killing Fields which had been ochestrated by SIHANOUK ,
May bring SIHANOUK to trial.
From a Survivor of the GOD DAMNED SIHANOUK KILLING FIELDS
Take Ah Hun Xen,Sihanuk,Heng Xamrin,Chea Xim,Hor 5 Hong,I Chheang and more the CPP members to the tribunal,they are all the killers!!!!
i don't know ,how Ah hun sen ,ah ho nam hong,ah chea sim, ah kiet chhun,ah sok an ,ah heng som rin ah fucken all khmers rouge currently running cambodia how they fell? when they saw this event. answer pls?
children of 04/17/1975
Iwish such a show be stopped, since it never produces a positive feeling for healing our society.
That's yuon propaganda!
If we go back to at the period of Vietninh and vietcong these people were wore exactly like that! and stranged as that!!!
That's yuon methodical ordered on khmer!
Why don't they remember one of Hun Sen khmer rouge that use to kill and hurt khmer terribly in that era also?
Just curious
This is what you called Cambodian progress under AH HUN SEN regime and the dirt poor Cambodian people are force to remember something happen in 1979 and it seems that AH HUN SEN couldn't move beyond 1979! This is 2010 and Cambodia still have nothing to show for in term of progress except corruption, corruption, and more corruption....Just look around Cambodia and majority of dirt poor Cambodian people still live below poverty line according to international standard...the sex, the drug, and the human trafficking are rampant!
These days building Buddhist temples is in fashion as if it going to save dirt poor Cambodian people from their misery and hopelessness!
It's look like nonsense because all former khmer rouge (they all were the killers) now still in the power and some got more of power
Heng Samrin did it.
Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime
Members:
Pol Pot
Nuon Chea
Ieng Sary
Ta Mok
Khieu Samphan
Son Sen
Ieng Thearith
Kaing Kek Iev
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
Committed:
Tortures
Brutality
Executions
Massacres
Mass Murder
Genocide
Atrocities
Crimes Against Humanity
Starvations
Slavery
Force Labour
Overwork to Death
Human Abuses
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime
Members:
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
Committed:
Attempted Murders
Attempted Murder on Chea Vichea
Attempted Assassinations
Attempted Assassination on Sam Rainsy
Assassinations
Assassinated Journalists
Assassinated Political Opponents
Assassinated Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Assassinated over 80 members of Sam Rainsy Party.
"But as of today, over eighty members of my party have been assassinated. Countless others have been injured, arrested, jailed, or forced to go into hiding or into exile."
Sam Rainsy LIC 31 October 2009 - Cairo, Egypt
Executions
Executed over 100 members of FUNCINPEC Party
Murders
Murdered 3 Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Murdered Chea Vichea
Murdered Ros Sovannareth
Murdered Hy Vuthy
Murdered Journalists
Murdered Khim Sambo
Murdered Khim Sambo's son
Murdered members of Sam Rainsy Party.
Murdered activists of Sam Rainsy Party
Murdered Innocent Men
Murdered Innocent Women
Murdered Innocent Children
Killed Innocent Khmer Peoples.
Extrajudicial Execution
Grenade Attack
Terrorism
Drive by Shooting
Brutalities
Police Brutality Against Monks
Police Brutality Against Evictees
Tortures
Intimidations
Death Threats
Threatening
Human Abductions
Human Abuses
Human Rights Abuses
Human Trafficking
Drugs Trafficking
Under Age Child Sex
Corruptions
Bribery
Embezzlement
Treason
Border Encroachment, allow Vietnam to encroaching into Cambodia.
Signed away our territories to Vietnam; Koh Tral, almost half of our ocean territory oil field and others.
Illegal Arrest
Illegal Mass Evictions
Illegal Land Grabbing
Illegal Firearms
Illegal Logging
Illegal Deforestation
Illegally use of remote detonation bomb on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and other military officials were on board.
Lightning strike many airplanes, but did not fall from the sky. Lightning strike out side of airplane and discharge electricity to ground.
Source: Lightning, Discovery Channel
Illegally Sold State Properties
Illegally Removed Parliamentary Immunity of Parliament Members
Plunder National Resources
Acid Attacks
Turn Cambodia into a Lawless Country.
Oppression
Injustice
Steal Votes
Bring Foreigners from Veitnam to vote in Cambodia for Cambodian People's Party.
Use Dead people's names to vote for Cambodian People's Party.
Disqualified potential Sam Rainsy Party's voters.
Abuse the Court as a tools for CPP to send political opponents and journalists to jail.
Abuse of Power
Abuse the Laws
Abuse the National Election Committee
Abuse the National Assembly
Violate the Laws
Violate the Constitution
Violate the Paris Accords
Impunity
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
Death in custody.
Under the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime, no criminals that has been committed crimes against journalists, political opponents, leaders of the Free Trade Union, innocent men, women and children have ever been brought to justice.
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