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At Festival the lawyer who survived genocide
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| Theary Seng |
Tomorrow, 3rd November, the International Rome Film Festival will be having as a guest Theary Seng, the Cambodian lawyer who at the end of the Seventies, still a child, underwent with her family violence from the Red Khmer. Theary Seng, American of adoption, will be present at the screening of the documentary Facing Genocide: Khieu Samphan and Pol Pot, by directors David Aronowitsch and Staffan Lindberg (in competition at the Festival within the Extra section coordinated by Mario Sesti). In Aronowitsch and Lindberg's film, the lawyer is the antagonist of Khieu Samphan, the main character of the story, back then Head of State under Pol Pot's regime, of which he still declares to be nostalgic.
After the screening, Theary Seng, current legal point of reference for victims of the Red Khmer's dictatorship, will be meeting the audiences.
The meeting is scheduled for 3rd November, at 10:30 p.m., at the Teatro Studio dell’Auditorium.
Theary Seng's short biography:
At the age of five, Theary was captured together with her mother and brothers (her father had already been killed), by Pol Pot's Red Khmer, and imprisoned most likely in the sadly well-known S-21 Torture Center. During her confinement, she also lost her mother who was taken in her sleep by Pol Pot's followers and brutally killed in the rice fields near the prison, the terrible renowned Cambodian “Killing Fields”.
Theary survived the genocide and went to the U.S.A. with her remaining relatives. Here, a little over twenty years old, she started studying law and she graduated as a lawyer. Theary Seng has been living in Cambodia for a couple of years now, where she is busy carrying out lawsuits in a criminal court together with other victims who were made orphans by the regime. She is also involved in helping these victims lodge complaints against the Red Khmer's leaders who are still alive: Khieu Samphan, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary and Ieng Thirith.
The Film
Facing Genocide: Khieu Samphan and Pol Pot
by David Aronowitsch, Staffan Lindberg, Sweden - Norway, 2010, 94’
Journey in the life (and mind) of Khieu Samphan, Head of State of democratic Kampuchea during the bloody regime of the Red Khmer. The film shows Khieu – with whom the directors spent almost 18 months – before being arrested and trialed for crimes against humanity, as he tells his personal story as well as that of the regime. He reveals a clear psychological scheme behind the savagery, and especially a disarming indifference towards the events. An authentic and admirable lesson of the “banality of evil”: any attempt to make the protagonist become aware of the horror of which he was accomplice, is totally vain. Pol Pot, for the first time, shows up here and there in the disquieting and spectral repertory
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Most of the Khmer attorneys can only qualify to work for the NGOs; these lawyers are not skilled to handle the trial, which only handled by the skilled professionals.
Let me know how many Khmer trial attorneys out there who work in the US or abroad.
3:04 PM
Why don't you talk to Bora Touch, Esq. in Australia? Your claim is baseless.
I don't know why you are bothering yourselves to judge Seng Theary. I would say she is one of KI's editors.
What I have noticed, the news about her are more likely for self promotion.
what a loser king go beg viet nam for staying as king and can not beg by himself he even bring his mother which we oun her thru hun sen and cpp and then his father...
you all khmer are a loser race and soon will be erase from this earth...
long live viet nam.. soon we will have nuclear power we will kill all of you so we dont have to waste our resources..
Today we signed 2 nuclear with Japan, 8 with Russia and soon USA will transfer the know how and also technology to make uranium .. then we will erase you all useless khmer from this earth...
now we will use you -- hun sen -cpp is our greaest slave to get more money from china and world for us..
your loser race can not even make toothpick..
LONG LIVE VIET NAM
SHORT LIVE VIET NAM... We wish that we would not have been born as Vietnamese …
Việt là đồ ngu mẹ đã ăn thịt chó.
Vietnamese are the mother fuckers and dog eaters.
Ah đồ má con chó,
We are Vietnamese and proud to be dog eaters who live and die like dogs….
Theary - do you know the saying goes - that you can foel people some of the time, but you can't foel people all the time.
Sooner or leter - self promotion without substand to back up your claim - will backfire on you! You are now in the process for people to see the truel color - traveling, being with celibrety, show-of or all those pictures....we need the bottom line..what has you really done with your job? Advocacy - what do it means (in your own word) - It should be well defind for you to act accordingly. You know as well as I do that a lot more Khmer intelligent women as well as men who are working tirelessly to really help the poor Khmer..they are faceless, but they are doing more for Khmer people than you.
So Theary stop disgrassing yourself - you are welcome to write..but don't put your picture in it - because, for this, I believe that more people will pay more attention to your work rather than your pictures.
Your friend/or unless you prentent not to me - I don't mind either...because I see that you are a good person and want to help Khmer people - and that is all the matter to me!
11:30,
That is a good honest advice. Good constructive advice.
Good job.
Koun Khmer
Yo! Koun Khmer - Have you meet Theary? She is the victum of her own beauty...thus, she has to work extra hard just to prove that she is indeed really an educate person. Just read her writing - not regular people can really understand of what she want to say...with all those big words (which one needs to look up from dictionary to understand the word, by than people get tire to read it). It was like she put up her article after Ki media put the story on the Baffaloe's girl (kilo grame of brain...). I read that article and couldn't really understand of what she wants to say.
Anyway Kaun Khmer, do you know Theary...tell her the story about a good tennis plays...a good tennis player, s/he has to be able to keep the ball back and forward on the tennis' court...whether you play with the pro or just the kid from the street. Because at the end of the day....one that can keep the other player on the court. Because at the end of the day, you can be happy...because you understand that you really have patient to show them how to play tennis... - both can be happy.
Theary remember "KISS" - Keep It Simple S.... with your writing!
Theary Seng !
What you are doing right now is not going to help Cambodia. You're creating the chaos in new generation.
Viet is happy to see you who is doing for its interest.
Theary ! rethink. Do not pull the old wound. You don't know who defend your country. You are taking your personal interest as the main goal for your whole life
Theary ! you are not politician. You did not study Cambodian history enough.
Pleae be a real educated woman. Otherwise, your education is useless or a just a poison to khmer society.
11:31 am - don't over estimate her...I don't think that she is par yet (insignificant differences to creat chaos). Don't give her a wrong ideas...because she is already think that she is the most intelligent women in Cambodia...thus, she does not take anybody opinions, or ideas, suggestion, etc into consideration. She is a one women band...she does not have many other NGOs cooperate with her. Just look at CAM-CC, it is already a well respected center of gathering document on KR regime, and had produce many documentaries...than why can't she work with CAM-CC? Talking about United Cambodian community...so far - she hasn't been able to united the NGOs that are working on the same issues as her! Leader need people to follow - not just - I, me, and myself are my follower!
Theary, when will your second book come out...maybe you need to spend some more time on that!...in addition, it will give you some time a way from your current job (whatever job that is), than you can take the accessment by using the SWOT method to evaluate your organization - this would allow you to pint point - where is your strenght or weakness in your organization...
Good luck my friend...
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