Thursday, February 09, 2012

«A reporter’s dangerous guided tour through Democratic Kampuchea» by Elizabeth Becker at Bophana Center Today


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Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center is very pleased to invite you, your friends and family to join the launching of our exhibition «A reporter’s dangerous guided tour through Democratic Kampuchea» by Elizabeth Becker. The opening is at 6:00pm on Thursday February 9, 2012.
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10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yes EB, I'd seen you and I still see you as a freaking Viet sympathizer, a pro-Viet journalist from head to toes...

Anonymous said...

Have you actually read her books on the subject?


Now that Duch has been given a life sentence for his self-confessed crimes. . .

When will Henry Kissinger get life in prison for his war crimes affecting many millions of innocent people in various countries, including Cambodia?

And when will George W Bush, Blair & Howard get life in prion for slaughtering over a million innocent Iraqis in their illegal war against Iraq.

And when will Obama the Bomber get life in prison for his illegal war crimes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, etc.

Etc., etc.

And when will pigs fly???!!!




There is macabre irony in the US government actually having such a person as "ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues", considering that the US has been one of the worst perpetrators of war crimes around the world, and it still is!

Anything the US government might have to say about war crimes committed by others is pure hypocrisy, until they face up to their own innumerable war crimes, including against Cambodia, and stop their current and future war crimes.



Many powerful interests seek to control the Cambodian War Crimes Tribunal, because they have Cambodian blood on their hands, but they are conveniently omitted from the official story.

The terms of reference for the trials were very specifically limited to 1975-1979, by the UN, although Hun Sen and the Cambodian government wanted a wider time-span.

The UN wanted to protect the other guilty parties who supported Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge crimes, either while they were in power or for decades afterwards - including the US, China, ASEAN countries, Britain, Australia and even the UN itself, all of whom have Cambodian blood on their hands!!!



Obviously, it does not fit the official narrative to give credit, where it is due, to the Vietnamese who drove the genocidal KR from power, responding to a request for help from Cambodians.

Instead, the 'official narrative' only falsely refers to the Vietnamese "invasion", instead of "liberation".

That is the truth.



But to understand the truth you must dig a little deeper than the superficial propaganda of the mainstream narrative.

Read more books!!!

Anonymous said...

10:08AM! go ask your elders, get to know your felow cambodians and think deeper! better than 1000 books of propaganda!

Anonymous said...

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.

Anonymous said...

EB is a more dangerous reporter/journalist than that cash cow Judy Jacobsen of Down Under so-called scholar when it comes to Khmer!!!

Iamgine at one meeting, EB wore hairdo and vietnamese robe talking about Khmer refugees plight!

Incognito

Anonymous said...

Re: "Instead, the 'official narrative' only falsely refers to the Vietnamese "invasion", instead of "liberation".

10:08 AM,

Go play with yourself somewhere else. Don't ever come to do your thing here on Ki-Media, in other words fuck off, or better yet, go fuck Elizabeth Baker, ok? Is that clear enough for you 10:08 AM?

Anonymous said...

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!

Anonymous said...

8:01 AM,

A I agree with you .

Wake up Khmer ,

Million of yuon dirty tricks behind this ECCC in Cambodia.

Anonymous said...

s 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 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.