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By Celine Ngi
LePetitJournal.com
Translated from French by Luc Sâr
In 1978, Elizabeth Becker was one of the few Western journalists to be invited for a two-week “guided” tour of Democratic Kampuchea. From her stay under close surveillance, she brought back pictures and interviews which will be exhibited at the Bophana Center between February 9 and 29.
It has been almost one week to the day since the announcement of the life sentence against Kaing Guek Eav, aka Duch, that this exhibition opens this Thursday, February 9, at the Bophana Center. It is devoted to the work of Elizabeth Becker, a photographer and journalist who was a former correspondent of The Washington Post and The New York Times. She is also the author of the book “When the War Over” which traced back the history of the Khmer Rouge revolution in Cambodia.
In 1978, when the country was closed to the world, Elizabeth Becker was one of the few journalists to be invited for a two week stay in Democratic Kampuchea. From her dangerous tour under close surveillance, she brought out interviews and photos which will be shown for the first time in Cambodia at the Bophana Center from tonight until 29 February. She will be present at the inauguration to discuss about her work and about her documents – a work which she describes as “terrifying.”
“Everything was planned in advance”
“We were under house arrest during the stay. We only saw what they wanted us to see - everything was planned in advance,” she told the Phnom Penh Post yesterday. “But it is possible to talk about it now,” she added while citing “a turning point, an opening'' contributed by the KR Tribunal. Asked about the controversies surrounding this Tribunal, Elizabeth Becker believes that the recognition of crimes committed alone is very significant by itself. She also attended the recent testimonials given by Youk Chang, the director of DC-Cam, and she will also be heard as a witness in the trial of Case 002.
''Anyone can come in, push a button and hear the voice of Pol Pot''
Organized in partnership with the US Embassy, the exhibition that opens tonight, titled “A Reporter's Dangerous Guided Tour Through Democratic Kampuchea”, will present several photos taken during her 1978 stay (see photos above), as well as recordings of interviews with Pol Pot, Ieng Sary and Ieng Thirith. “Any Cambodian can come in, push a button and hear the voice of Pol Pol, ''Elizabeth Becker said. ''I do not want mysteries around these people. I want a complete and total transparency, and access by the public.''
21 comments:
I want Cambodian to look at Pol Pot closely and tell me, is he look like Khmere or Chinese ???
Even the little Cambodian kid on the street can tell you that he look like Chinese leader !!!!
If Chinese was not part of KR, why was he wearing Chinese cloth ???
Yes EB, I'd seen you and I still see you as a freaking Viet sympathizer, a pro-Viet journalist from head to toes...
EB is a more dangerous reporter/journalist than that cash cow Judy Jacobsen of Down Under so-called scholar when it comes to Khmer!!!
Imagine at one meeting, EB wore hairdo and vietnamese robe talking about Khmer refugees plight!
Incognito
Loot at the name of the author of the article there:
Céline Ngi
What do you all think?
Remember one thing about Sihanouk's time:
Intellectuals, scholars, the rich, the famous, the powerful cadre in the Sihanouk's government were mostly if not all Chinese/Vietnamese decendants and/or of Sihanouk's clique. The true/native Khmer (put in current laymen terms) was left behind miserably...The rest is history...Need we say more?
Luc Sâr must have been very very resourceful to have gotten hold of an article written by that Céline Ngi. Ça m'impresse beaucoup!
4:05AM
HE LOOK MORE CHINESE TO ME, THATS WHAT I ALWAYS TOLD MY FRIENDS ABOUT POL POT.
Khmer/Cambodian folks, please to make that it is not NEW HIDDENT/SECRET YUON/VIET AGENTS THAT FORM NEW KHMER ROUGES AS YUON/VIET PROPAGANDA in the blind eyes of foreigners and Khmer people again.
It is has been a Yuon/Viet trick and secret among Khmer Society. There are many Yuon/Viet born in Cambodian/Srok Khmer speaking Khmer language and their Yuon language. They may causes the problem again in 21st century.
We,Khmer people, should know that Without Khmer Rouges like Pol Pot, Ieng Sari, Khiev Saphan, Noun Chea (who had done the big mistakes and wrong, but they admitted that they had said that they had done something wrong and told the truth in ECCC about Yuon/Viet) including other Khmer Rouges Compatriots who care about Khmer National because they repeatedly heard about the trick of Yuon/Viet playing too many games and tricks to encroach the land of Khmer to overcome and satisfy Hanoi/Ho Chi Minh goals as their plans. So far, Viet/Yuon master-minded evil leaders have not achieved their goals so far until today, but they still keep trying and keep trying to play the trick. Now, Khmer people, you see that Hun Sen is the one that Yuon/Viet Communist Master-Minded evil masters are using him (Hun Sen, their dog) until today. SEE???
Just watch out, Khmer/Cambodian people and don't be fooled.
Khmer Yeurgn!
Listen to the Khmer post radio and world Khmer radio a www.thekhmerpost.com and www.worldkhmerradioonline.com
Khmer/Cambodian folks, please to make sure that it is not NEW HIDDENT/SECRET YUON/VIET AGENTS THAT FORM NEW KHMER ROUGES AS YUON/VIET PROPAGANDA in the blind eyes of foreigners and Khmer people again.
It is has been a Yuon/Viet trick and secret among Khmer Society. There are many Yuon/Viet born in Cambodian/Srok Khmer speaking Khmer language and their Yuon language. They may causes the problem again in 21st century.
We,Khmer people, should know that Without Khmer Rouges like Pol Pot, Ieng Sari, Khiev Saphan, Noun Chea (who had done the big mistakes and wrong, but they admitted that they had said that they had done something wrong and told the truth in ECCC about Yuon/Viet) including other Khmer Rouges Compatriots who care about Khmer National because they repeatedly heard about the trick of Yuon/Viet playing too many games and tricks to encroach the land of Khmer to overcome and satisfy Hanoi/Ho Chi Minh goals as their plans. So far, Viet/Yuon master-minded evil leaders have not achieved their goals so far until today, but they still keep trying and keep trying to play the trick. Now, Khmer people, you see that Hun Sen is the one that Yuon/Viet Communist Master-Minded evil masters are using him (Hun Sen, their dog) until today. SEE???
Just watch out, Khmer/Cambodian people and don't be fooled.
Wake up, wake up, wake up!!! It is a wake-up call!!!
Khmer Yeurng!
To:4:05AM,
Who is Pol Pot? Press Enter,you can
find out who he is.
Yes,Pol Pot is Chinese.His parents
were rich rice farmer in Kompong
Thom.His name is Saloth Sar.He changed his name after he went to
the jungle.He worked With Vietcong,
he got another name Minh Hai,Vietnam name.His name changed
again,Pol Pot;it meant Political
Potential,Short for Pol Pot.
During Khmer Rouge received all
clothes and weapons from China.
The chinky and the Viet concocted to kill all of us named Khmer for the land... Who the chinky and the Viet use to do that? Currently - The 3S (Sen/Sihanouk/Siharmoni).
The chubky and the Viet will not stop until all Khmer is wiped out from the face of this green planet earth.
Incognito
Elizabeth Becker is not a neutral jounalist.
For Khmer, great danger is from yuon Hanoi ambition to put Lao and Cambodia under youn annex and exterminate ethnic Cambodians as Noun Chea and Khieu Sampphan say about Indochina Federation.
So Elizabeth Becker is only one of many foreinger who tried to cover up yuon Hanoi genocide , war cirmes and eterminate ethnic Cambodians.
Dear KI-Media or readers,
I would like to send a song that needs to be uploaded into the KI-media website. I don't know the exact email address or whom to send to in KI-media team.
It would be great if anyone knows or if the KI-media publishers can send any email address to me that I can send the song to. This song is sung by the Boeung Kak lake residents and it's very important and we want to tell the World about what happened in Boeung Kak due to the most inferior development made by Lao Meng Khin with approval from Phnom Penh Municipality.
I am waiting for your request eagerly.
Regards,
Kon Khmer
10:56 AM
kiletters@gmail.com
WHEN EB WAS INVITED TO DK, SOME PEOPLE LABELED HER AS
POL POT SYMPATHIZER . NOW SHE HAS A NEW TITLE AS VN SYMPATHIZER . I' VE LIVED THROUGH FIVE DIFFERENT KINDS OF
KHMER GOVEMENTS AND THE MOST COMMON THIING AMONG THEM IS LABELING; THAT 'S WHY 1.7 MILLIONS KHMERS DIED DURING POL POT's . HOPEFULLY AM I LABELED AS KHMER SYMPATHIZER BECAUSE I FEEL SORRY FOR KHMERS THAT HAVE
TOO MANY LABELERS .
This 2:22 PM old fart is really stupid to have generalized as such...
វាដូចចាចៃដន្យម៉្លេះ រឿងរ៉ាវកើតជាបន្ត ហេតុអ្វី
លោកស្រី Elizabeth Becker ទើបធ្វើការ
បង្ហាញខ្លួនពេលនេះ?អ្វីៗប្រហែលត្រូវគេគ្រោង
ទុកមុនជាស្រេច ទើបចៃដន្យល្អម្លឹងៗ។អ្នកណា
ក៏មានចម្ងល់ដែរ លោកស្រី Elizabeth
Becker ។
Is Elizabeth Becker pro-Vietnamese?
On February 8, 2012, Elizabeth Becker, a former foreign correspondent for the Washington Post and New York Time revisited Phnom-Penh, Cambodia and gave a lecture at Pannasastra University. She said there had been 30 years of silence on the horrors of the Khmer Rouge Regime and no official acknowledgement that a great crime had been committed. But, with the tribunal, the crime had been acknowledged.
On December 23, 1978, a group of three persons, including two American Journalists, Elizabeth Becker and Richard Dudman, and one British Academic, Malcolm Caldwell were invited to visit Cambodia. Just hours after the interview with Pol Pot, which took place in the French Colonial Head Quarter (La Residence Superieure) in Phnom-Penh, Caldwell was shot to death in the guest house where they all stayed, thus reducing three-person group to two. On 25 December 1978, Vietnam launched a full-scale invasion of Kampuchea (Cambodia).
In Malcolm Caldwell Remembered, Part 5 of the Khmer Rouge Canon 1975-1979,Elizabeth Becker said that Caldwell's death would show that the revolution could not even care for its friends, that it was fraught with chaos, meaning that Vietnam will not allow anyone to survive in Cambodia, be him or her a Cambodian or Foreigner if he or she is not sided with Vietnam’s Indochina Policy. This led to the question why Malcolm Caldwell got killed whereas Elizabeth Becker and Richard Dudman were spared? Was this due to the latter’s two pro-Vietnamese stand?
Malcolm Caldwell was probably slain by someone in the inner party circle opposed to Pol Pot meaning Vietnam’s secret agents, because he might have shown that he was a strong supporter of Pol Pot Regime. Caldwell was an admirer of Pol Pot, because he considered that Pol Pot was the first person to lead the Peasant Revolution. More importantly, Vietnam’s secret agents didn't want their killing fields being revealed to the people in the outside world. If UN knew what was really happening in Cambodia, UN would perhaps send it's peace-keeping forces to oust the Pol Pot's regime. If the UN peace-keeping forces had gone to Cambodia at that time, all the Vietnamese Confederation of Indochina plans could have been derailed. The Vietnamese didn't want their demonic plans to be destroyed by the Western intervention because they have made them since 1930 of Indochinese Communist Party/Federation, by the late Ho Chi Minh. If the UN had started from the West to overthrow the Pol Pot's regime, many of the Vietnamese agents, who secretly had impersonated themselves as the leaders of Khmer Rouge, would have been captured alive for their interrogations.
Based on the above information, All Cambodian Patriots could draw a conclusion whether Elizabeth Becker is a friend of Cambodia or a pro Vietnamese Journalist.
Vietnam secrete agents working at the inner circle of Pol Pot regime did not harm Elizabeth Becker and Richard Dudman, because they were pro vietnam and blame Pol Pot regime for the killing of 2 millions of Cambodians. Indirectly, they have been helping Vietnam to control Cambodia by installing it's puppets: Hun Sen, Chea Sim and Heng Samrin as suppreme leaders of Cambodia.
In fact, Vietnam is the main culprit that behind the killing field, it should also be held responsible for the life of 2 millions cambodians died during 1975 and 1978.
Vietnam is invader not liberator! This is absolutely true.
If it is liberator, why after removing Pol Pot Regime in 1979, Vietnam occupied Cambodia until 1989 and set up a puppet regime under Hanoi's control. Vietnam secrete agents in Cambodia played important role in causing 2millions of cambodians periled.
Vietnam secrete agents working at the inner circle of Pol Pot regime did not harm Elizabeth Becker and Richard Dudman, because they were pro vietnam and blame Pol Pot regime for the killing of 2 millions of Cambodians.
Indirectly, they have been helping Vietnam to control Cambodia by blaming only pol pot regime for the death of 2 millions of Cambodians and treated Vietnam as cambodian savers.
Therefore she is the mouth piece of Vietnam invader and should not be trusted. This is the reason why Vietnam saved her and Rchard Dudman's life but killed only Malcome Caldwell who support Pol Pot Regime.
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