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| Khieu Samphan in Facing Genocide |
What:
“FACING GENOCIDE”
NEW FILM ABOUT KR LEADER KHIEU SAMPHAN
When:
WED, 18/05 at 7PM
Where:
META HOUSE PHNOM PENH
IS THE GERMAN CAMBODIAN CULTURAL CENTER.
Address: #37, St. Sothearos Blvd, Phnom Pehn. Cambodia
Tel: (+855)10 312 333
Email: mesterharm@gmx.net
Synopsis:
Khieu Samphan was one of the closest collaborators of Pol Pot and the one the fronted the KR movement. He has succeeded in living his life without being held accountable for the Khmer Rouge crimes, until his arrest in 2007. Swedish filmmakers D. Aronowitsch & S. Lindberg have followed him two years before his arrest. FACING GENOCIDE (94 mins, 2010) is a search into the personality of Khieu Samphan. The film gives insight into his mindset and his close relation to Pol Pot. It is a unique story about an ex-leader, the time before his arrest and before he is put on trial. Film is presented by lawyer/book author Theary Seng, one of the film’s protagonists.
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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,
Second, the mandate of the ECCC has been much politicized and is limited to trying the atrocities committed during the Khmer Rouge period of April 1975 to January 1979.
In his interview with the Phnom Penh Post, Noam Chomsky, emeritus professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, pointed out that “the leading US political establishment like Henry Kissinger, a member of the late president Richard Nixon’s administration…should also be held accountable for creating the conditions that paved the way for the rise of the [Khmer Rouge]”.
While acknowledging the mass atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge regime, we should never forget the level of atrocities committed during the US secretive bombing of Cambodia from 1968-1973. A declassified telephone discussion between Henry Kissinger and General Alexander Haig, Nixon's deputy assistant for national security affairs, recorded that Nixon had ordered a “massive bombing campaign in Cambodia [to use] anything that flys [sic] on anything that moves”.
The map of US bombing targets released by Yale University’s Cambodian Genocide Program shows that more than half of the country was affected by the indiscriminate bombings. Professor Ben Kierman, director of the program, puts the casualties figure from the bombing at 150,000 deaths, while Edward Herman, a professor of Wharton School, and Noam Chomsky put the toll at 600,000 using figures provided by a Finnish Commission of Inquiry.
Based on this, we can never naively claim that US bombing led to the mass executions by the Khmer Rouge or refuted the regime's mass atrocities. But, to certain extent, the blanket bombing, which directly led to the destruction of livestock and agricultural land, could have definitely played a role in the mass starvation.
From new data released during the Clinton administration, Taylor Owen, a doctoral student at Oxford University, and Professor Kierman noted that 2,756,941 tons of bombs were dropped on Cambodia.
To put the figure into perspective, just over 2 million tons of bombs were dropped by the allies during all of World War II. The bombs dropped in Cambodia represented about 184 Hiroshima atomic bombs combined, making Cambodia the most bombed nation in the world. Based on the new data, Professor Kierman also stressed that the casualties might be much higher than his earlier predicted 150,000.
Very interestin case!!Don't forget to take KR leader Hor 5 HOng ,he was the cheft Beong Trobak prison,he was the khmer murder!!! and take Hor 5 Hong to the Court!!!
And also SDACH SIHANOUK.
Khieu Samphan looks more youn then chinese or khmer.
Ms Rattana Keo...I heard a lot of Cambodian communities at Cabramatta talk about you sleep with your young husband and also sleep with boyfriends at the same time. Why do you do that for ....??!!!
1:01 PM
Youn Bitch Smiley Mouth!!!....Youn Bitch! You must be Youn who can speak khmer at Cabramatta sell drugs at Cabramatta Station for sure...
I hope we Khmer put bad guy in jail soon. Dont forget all his must go to the cambodia people.
That why Khmer is what it is today, Khmer People are dirt poor, unliterate and all are screw up, nothing is being build or repair, NO jobs. All you Khmer letting this Pol Pot boy, X Khmer Rough run the country. Someone in Cambodia need to start something and bring this Killer to justic!
914 am
Forget about the island. It is history. It is now Vietnam's. You can have your children's children claimed it, but it is insurmountable.
Again, the island is no longer belonging to Cambodia--this is the fact.
Please take care of what you already have, and stop worrying about something that you don't have control over it.
My beloved 10:07PM!
If me unquestionally agree with ya,
therefore Kampuchea already became Kampuchea Krom!
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10:07 PM is purely truely CPP and Vietnam who try very hard to brain wash all Cambodian young generation to confuse about their true identities.
Khieu Samphan, Hou Nim , Hou Yon are good men if you research properly since they all left Paris back home.
1. Not every single Khmer Viet Minh is bad.
2. Not every single CPP is bad.
3. Not every single KR is a killer.
4. Not every single of Sam Rainsy Party member is perfect.
So Hu Nim , Hou Youn and Khiev Samphan are all 3 of good men among other Khhmer.
My beloved 3:08PM!
I conscientiously and completely agree with ya about these three patriotical men.
Without them I think therefore I undoubtedly believe the revolution would not be gradually successful.
If I were still remember correctly, Hou Youn was secretly getting kill, because he was publicly criticizing Pol Pot about the Phnom Pehn's sudden evaucation. Hou Youn's philosophy was to tirelessly rebuild the nation with every single Khmer.
Hu Nim was also secretly getting kill during 77's, because Pol Pot was insansely thought that he was conspiratively involved in the first failure's attempt of assassinating Pol Pot
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