By: Frances Kai-Hwa Wang
Community Contributor
AnnArbor.com
Many know how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. developed many of his ideas from the writings of Gandhi, but I only recently began to learn how the ideas of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. also went on to influence many others around the globe.
Cambodian human rights activist and Khmer Rouge survivor Theary Seng will be speaking this Thursday, Jan. 13, from 7-9 p.m., at the University of Michigan Museum of Art Helmut Stern Auditorium, “MLK Across The Globe: His Legacy In Advancing The Values Of Justice, Peace, And Reconciliation In Cambodia.”
Theary Seng is the founder and board president of the Cambodian Center for Justice & Reconciliation and the founding director of CIVICUS: Center for Cambodian Civic Education.
This program is sponsored as part on the University of Michigan 25th Annual MLK Symposium by the University of Michigan Center for Southeast Asian Studies, U of M Museum of Art, U of M Law School, the Cambodia Law Project, the President’s Advisory Board on Labor Standards and Human Rights, and the U of M School of Public Health.
University of Michigan Museum of Art is located at 525 S. State St. in Ann Arbor.
Frances Kai-Hwa Wang is a second-generation Chinese American from California who now divides her time between Ann Arbor and the Big Island of Hawaii. She is an editor of IMDiversity.com Asian American Village, lead multicultural contributor for AnnArbor.com and a contributor for New America Media's Ethnoblog. She is on the Advisory Board of American Citizens for Justice. She team-teaches "Asian Pacific American History and the Law" at University of Michigan and University of Michigan Dearborn. She is a popular speaker on Asian Pacific American and multicultural issues. Check out her website at franceskaihwawang.com, her blog at franceskaihwawang.blogspot.com, and she can be reached at fkwang888@gmail.com.
10 comments:
Is this going to benefit Cambodia ?
If it is not then it is just self promoter !! Good for her !
bae Ah Hun Sen vear gnorb kom oy daey kob kmoach ah hun sen veay! Ott oy kob nuve srok khmer te nah prab oy heay. oy vear to kob nuv srok ah kon tob tove veay!
Khmoach aH hun sen mon Noosh chong-rai. saR oy nash......KHMOACH BEY SARCH BURT CHEARM SROSH...!
ah HUN SEN MIN TORN SLAB PONG VEAR BURT CHEARM SROSH ROURCH SRACH BAT.
BAE AH HUN SEN GNORB KOM TVAE BUNN OY VEAR, AH HUN SEN CHEAR MON-NOOSH KBOTH, MON-NOOSH CHONG RAI TUNG BDAIY TUNG PRO PUN VEAR.
IF THE HUSBAND AND WIFE (AH HUNSEN & MI CHOA BUN RUNY) DIE DONT' LET THEM BURY IN CAMBODIAN LAND. THEY ARE BORN FROM HELL TO PUT IN THIS EARTH.
HELL PEOPLE BELONG TO VIETNAM.
CPP................................PP
Another show off by an international tourist
how many times does she need to advertise her role in this event? This was probably not the last time we read about it here, even though it does not interest anyone.
As a human rights activist Theary Seng should advocate to stop shooting spree carried out by thai army along the border killing Khmer civilians. That has been going for decade. Khmer rouge has gone why she works so hard for that coz the un is working on it.
Good for Hun Xen regime get benefit to the police officers, and bed for the victim's. You known some police officers do business with robber arms, that is no question mark on this point. Anyway, more than 10 years Hun Xen also former robber arms being 1970 when he joint khmer rouge guerrilla.
Dear Heng soy, agreed with you, your article are aprreciated, since you are sound like fairness, I always wantting to see new ways of doing politice, new approach for all politciiant to focus on constructive chaleng, to assure that their business not going to hurt another humanbeing (KHmer peoples). Mike.
Please stop blaming any Cambodian that is representing Cambodian in the International level. We needed thousands of Khmer people like Theary Seng, Loung Ung, MU Suchua, and others to let the International community recognize and heard about the current Cambodia situations. If you cannot do like them stop blaming them that working very hard and spent a lot of their times and money to represent Cambodia. These people don't get free money like Hun Sen they has to spent lots time to raise money for each trip by them self. They has the will and courage to sacrificed them self for Cambodian people.
I wishes all Gods to protect and secure their life for a lifetime.
Dear Heng soy
We have to take a long tripe in order to know the strength of the horse, we have to lived long enought to know your freinds. It take me 5 months to know Mr. Sam Rainsy, he is not a good freind for highly interllegence and hornest like you. Mike
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