Saturday, February 11, 2012

Questions and Answers with Elizabeth Becker on 09 February 2012 At Bophana Center

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYhshiuUjhQ

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

ms elizabeth becker is one of only a handful of journalists who got to see the real KR before they were ousted of power. so, she is a special eyewitness to the tribunal, i think. she has tons of stories to tell from what she saw on her visit of that so-called democratic kampuchea under the stupid KR regime. god bless her and may she help cambodia as one of the eyewitnesses.

Anonymous said...

Why would a KR regime invited western journalist? I thought KR suppose to kill them right?

Anonymous said...

កណ្ដួយ​ មេចោខ្ញំកញ្ជះយួន!

Anonymous said...

9:07 PM
you better learn to sing and we will understand your language.

Anonymous said...

9:07AM
SOund like you have never been educated.

Anonymous said...

Still,a freaking Viet sympathizer, a pro-Viet journalist from head to toes...

EB is a more dangerous reporter/journalist than that Viet's 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!

Anonymous said...

Better than your mother, you fucker 11:06 PM!

Anonymous said...

9;07am is another new Yuon who learns to writes Khmer.

Anonymous said...

អូយ៉ែ កូនមីកណ្ដួយ អាយ៉ាស ១:១៤AM!
you like that now?

Anonymous said...

ចយ ដឹក អើយ!

Anonymous said...

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.

Anonymous said...

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.

Anonymous said...

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.