http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWFpngEfu84&feature=player_embedded
Dear colleagues,
Today ICTJ launched a short video about the relationship between peace and justice. ICTJ President David Tolbert and other ICTJ experts speak alongside former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Ishmael Beah, a former child soldier from Sierra Leone, and human rights activists from Kenya, Indonesia and Colombia on the role of justice in sustaining peace, ensuring non-repetition and reinstating respect for the rule of law.
For a long time, making compromises on justice with powerful perpetrators of mass atrocities has been an integral part of peace negotiations. The immediate concern of ending violence often resulted in amnesties for war crimes and crimes against humanity, sometimes even presenting calls for justice as obstacles to peace.
This ICTJ video describes the marked shift in recent years away from the practice of providing immunity from prosecution to those most responsible for mass atrocity. The video illustrates the growing understanding that the two goals of peace and justice, rather than being exclusive, are mutually reinforcing. Peace, when understood as enduring and long-term peace, goes beyond the immediate goal of ending a conflict and relies on justice and accountability to ensure sustainability. Where mass crimes are not addressed, when the root causes of conflict are not sought out and removed, when victims’ calls for justice are not heard, the danger of violence recurring remains high.
We hope you will take a few minutes to watch the video. And we encourage you to share it with your contacts and to use it as a tool in your discussions about peace negotiations.
You are welcome to share the video with a direct link: http://ictj.org/news/peace-versus-justice-false-dilemma
We also welcome you to embed the video on your site. Please write to my colleague, Clare Garvie, cgarvie@ictj.org if you need assistance.
Regards,
Caitlin
Today ICTJ launched a short video about the relationship between peace and justice. ICTJ President David Tolbert and other ICTJ experts speak alongside former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Ishmael Beah, a former child soldier from Sierra Leone, and human rights activists from Kenya, Indonesia and Colombia on the role of justice in sustaining peace, ensuring non-repetition and reinstating respect for the rule of law.
For a long time, making compromises on justice with powerful perpetrators of mass atrocities has been an integral part of peace negotiations. The immediate concern of ending violence often resulted in amnesties for war crimes and crimes against humanity, sometimes even presenting calls for justice as obstacles to peace.
This ICTJ video describes the marked shift in recent years away from the practice of providing immunity from prosecution to those most responsible for mass atrocity. The video illustrates the growing understanding that the two goals of peace and justice, rather than being exclusive, are mutually reinforcing. Peace, when understood as enduring and long-term peace, goes beyond the immediate goal of ending a conflict and relies on justice and accountability to ensure sustainability. Where mass crimes are not addressed, when the root causes of conflict are not sought out and removed, when victims’ calls for justice are not heard, the danger of violence recurring remains high.
We hope you will take a few minutes to watch the video. And we encourage you to share it with your contacts and to use it as a tool in your discussions about peace negotiations.
You are welcome to share the video with a direct link: http://ictj.org/news/peace-versus-justice-false-dilemma
We also welcome you to embed the video on your site. Please write to my colleague, Clare Garvie, cgarvie@ictj.org if you need assistance.
Regards,
Caitlin
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Koh Tral Island must not be forgotten
By Ms. Rattana Keo
Why do Koh Tral Island, known in Vietnam as Phu Quoc, a sea and land area covering proximately over 30,000 km2 [Note: the actual land size of Koh Tral itself is 574 square kilometres (222 sq miles)] have been lost to Vietnam by whose treaty? Why don’t Cambodia government be transparent and explain to Cambodia army at front line and the whole nation about this? Why don't they include this into education system? Why?
Cambodian armies are fighting at front line for 4.6 km2 on the Thai border and what's about over 30,000km2 of Cambodia to Vietnam. Nobody dare to talk about it! Why? Cambodian armies you are decide the fate of your nation, Cambodian army as well as Cambodian people must rethink about this again and again. Is it fair?
Koh Tral Island, the sea and land area of over 30,000 square kilometres have been lost to Vietnam by the 1979 to 1985 treaties. The Cambodian army at front line as well as all Cambodian people must rethink again about these issues. Are Cambodian army fighting to protect the Cambodia Nation or protecting a very small group that own big lands, big properties or only protecting a small group but disguising as protecting the Khmer nation?
The Cambodian army at front lines suffer under rain, wind, bullets, bombs, lack of foods, lack of nutrition and their families have no health care assistance, no securities after they died but a very small group eat well, sleep well, sleep in first class hotel with air conditioning system with message from young girls, have first class medical care from oversea medical treatments, they are billionaires, millionaires who sell out the country to be rich and make the Cambodian people suffer every day.
Who signed the treaty 1979-1985 that resulted in the loss over 30,000 km2 of Cambodia??? Why they are not being transparent and brave enough to inform all Cambodians and Cambodian army at front line about these issues? Why don't they include Koh Tral (Koh Tral size is bigger than the whole Phom Phen and bigger than Singapore [Note: Singapore's present land size is 704 km2 (271.8 sq mi)]) with heap of great natural resources, in the Cambodian education system?
Look at Hun Sen's families, relatives and friends- they are billionaires, millionaires. Where did they get the money from when we all just got out of war with empty hands [in 1979]? Hun Sen always say in his speeches that Cambodia had just risen up from the ashes of war, just got up from Year Zero with empty hands and how come they are billionaires, millionaires but 90% of innocent Cambodian people are so poor and struggling with their livelihood every day?
Koh Tral was a Cambodian island, and technically and legally, remained a Cambodian island until today.
Smart Khmer girl Ms. Rattana Keo,
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