 |
| Theary Seng meeting with John Einar Sandvand at the largest newspaper in Norway, Aftenposten (Oslo, 2 Feb. 2011). |
 |
| Theary Seng in front of the Nobel Peace Center honoring laureate Liu Xiaobo (Oslo, 2 Feb. 2011) |
 |
| Theary Seng with Serbian filmmaker Natasa Muntean of Lunam Docs Production, here inside City Hall where the Nobel Peace Award Ceremony is annually held (Oslo, 2 Feb. 2011). |
 |
| Nora Sveass, member of UN Torture Committee (Cambodia is in her portfolio) at the Opening Events of Human Rights, Human Wrongs Film Festival in a packed theatre in trendy Parkteatret (Oslo, 2 Feb. 2011). |
 |
| Screening of FACING GENOCIDE at trendy Parkteatret (Oslo, 3 Feb. 2011). |
 |
| Screening of FACING GENOCIDE to a packed theatre at the trendy Parkteatret (Oslo, 3 Feb. 2011). |
 | |
| Nora Sveaass, Theary Seng, Gunnar Ekalove-Styda | l |
 |
| Nora Sveaass, Theary Seng, Gunnar Ekalove-Stydal |
 |
| Director David Aronowitsch in front of Parkteatret, the hip/trendy venue of Human Rights Human Wrongs Film Festival before the screening of Facing Genocide (Oslo, Thursday, 3 Feb. 2011). |
 |
| Dinner after screening and panel discussion of Facing Genocide with various filmmakers, producers, authors, researchers (Oslo, 3 Feb. 2011) |
15 comments:
Tourist show off
When you hit the tag button “Theary Seng” at the bottom of this article, what you get is pages and pages of posts, most of them having a photo of Theary’s pretty face attached to them, many of them look like adds for cosmetic products often in private and opulent settings.
Which button do I have to click to see photos of all the regular Khmer women heroin mothers who live in the Khmer village and struggle to feed and educate their Khmer children and work their little piece of Khmer land until it is robbed from them, struggling to create a functional family and livelihood in a totally dysfunctional environment? Which button to listen to their voices and to know their thoughts? There are millions of them and I don’t know any of their names.
Same for all the regular Cambodian victims and those activists who speak out without the effortless enjoyment of a foreign citizenship and a law school career to fall back on? I don’t mind if they are less articulate than Theary.
Is Theary’s private life really sensitive information about Cambodia that it should be posted on KI-Media? If so, how come that there is not nearly as much about/from almost anyone of the KI-Media’s choice of Khmer heroes? I think it is for good reason that there is almost nothing about their private lives on KI Media. So why is Theary’s private life seemingly taking place mostly in foreign locations, considered sensitive information about Cambodia?
What is the purpose of posting photos of Theary that look as if they are promoting cosmetic products? I think it is demeaning not just of Khmer but any woman, as if men should only listen to pretty women or those who have applied sufficient amounts of make-up or as if you cannot get them with the strength of your argument than they might be persuaded by your sex-appeal?
If you were a politician, I would understand that you want everyone to vote for you, even people too stupid to understand your argument but who might find your face pretty enough to vote for you. But if you want your words to count, I suggest that you stop your self-promotion and showing off your undeserved privileges. Theary, for me its never become clear what you stand for, except yourself.
I think what is needed here is more and more diverse and more Khmer women voice, not only those that succeed in foreign educational institutions but those that struggle in the village in Cambodia. There is too little voice from inside Cambodia here, from the rice field, its mostly numbers, infant mortality, illiteracy, rape, land grab but what are the names of the innocent Khmer victims, the daily Khmer heroes and heroines, what do their faces look like, what are their thoughts, this is what I want to know and this is what is the real sensitive information about Cambodia, because it attaches names and faces to what is presented to us mostly as numbers. Photos of Theary’s face in her Greenwich Village apartment are a poor substitute, even with a Kroma. Sorry Theary, but if you do post your private stuff here you cannot be surprised that your private stuff is scrutinized here. The more you mix up your private stuff with your public role as voice of the Cambodian victims the more your claim to represent Khmer victims looses the last of its credibility. The victims are marginalized by your constant self-promotion. It is you who is diminishing their voices.
In fact I think that given the obvious constraints KI Media is doing a good job in making the real Khmer voice heard but I wonder if there are additional means that could be considered, such as ways in which Cambodians could share their stories through KI Media, maybe by sending them anonymously to a specific email? I am sure there are more students, farmers and so on whose thoughts and stories we would like to hear. I don’t mind Theary but I want her voice balanced with those of Cambodian women and men. Better focus on publishing sensitive information about Cambodia than private information about Theary, all the more since it is mostly targeted at foreign audiences, who respond particularly well to pretty, articulate, Anglophone victims.
If I want to see pretty Khmer girls I can watch any of the CPP TV channels. Why making KI Media a platform for Theary’s self-promotion?
Same for the Khmer Rouge trial. I can see how it benefits the CPP and international donors, foreign advocates and people like Theary, like to pay mortgage for her NYC apartment but I don’t see how it benefits Khmer victims. I also don’t see how Theary can credibly represent Khmer victims. I don’t think Theary’s success has come effortlessly but it was enabled by functional institutions that are the complete opposite of what Khmer victims experience every day. Theary’s privileged lifestyle is the opposite of what Khmer victims experience every day and it is obscene to suggest that it is she who could make the victims heard, that it is her story that represents the Khmer victims. I want the trial and the victims’ voice to be heard but I don’t want the trial to be a platform for Theary’s self-promotion. I think this is a matter of respect for the Khmer victims.
KI Media, please don't post Theary's self-promotion anymore.
Hahahaha hahaha hahaha Thearible!
Self promotion is good for a potential job as a co-judge at the KR tribunal.
Self promotion for chance to be nominated for noble prize
Keep doing your job Theary don't pay attention to some idiot.
"Facing Genocide" is in my opinion a very bad movie produced by people who did not do the historical research necessary to make a pertinent case against Mr. Samphan.
Theary love to show of where she is at. She is the only one that has a big job. The rest of the world has none. It is not impressive at all. What a psycho.
*Dear Miss Theary seng
-I love you consiences so much.you will be khmer lady leader soon, After Hun sen DIE by stroke or cancer.
LOVE YOU THEARY2011
*if Cambodia have HAPPEN.....viet-nam Hanoi spies Agents will APPEAR and will kills khmer Phnom-Penh again and BLAME to Hun sen Govt in some cases.so KHMER FIGHTING KHMER for Ever.They don't know who is a Real killers and real Enemies.
-sam rainsy....kem sokha...Pen sovann nor Hun sen...should know well this situation than me.
KHMER DAI
There is nothing to
hide in this planet
earth.
Million and million
psychologists could
read physical,mental,
verbal,intellectual
attitudes.
The evil man like
Hun Sen and other
evil men in the world can't escape
from the truth.
Today,they could
find the evil ones,
but tomorrow,they
will catch.
If Khmer people have
unity,justice for
all,virtue for
everyone,and morality in their
minds,they can have
peace and prosperity.
Did someone know
who continue to kill
Khmer few hundred
years to come?
The main one is
Vietnam and the
second ones are
Khmer and Khmer.
Why?
The Khmer people do
not depend
on themselves,they
depend on Thai and
Vietnam.
Look in 1970,Sihanouk asked
Vietcong for help
to gain power back
from Lon Nol.
Vietnam toppled
Hun Sen to be her
puppet.
The Vietnam never,never,and
never stop invading
Cambodia and other
countries in Southeast Asia.
Did Khmer people feel the wind of
change?
Or sleep soundly to
let Vietnam to
swallow?
Down With Cambodia Vietnamization
Down with Indochinese federation
Down with Chinese Imperialism
Down with Ho chi Minh Journey to westward
Down with Khmer Vietminh in Cambodia
Down with K5 and Killing Field Murderers
Down with self promote
Love Khmer
Your country needs more people like Theary Seng who presents an intelligent face and voice other than the obscenity and violence in society.
Post a Comment