Archivo etiqueta «Camboya»
By Mike Abramowitz, director of the genocide prevention program of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Mark Sarna, a member of the program’s advisory board and a son of Holocaust survivors (THE WASHINGTON POST, 22/11/11):
A few hours outside of Cambodia’s capital, 58-year-old Taing Kim, a delicate woman who spent several years as a nun, lives in a gray concrete house in the middle of a quiet village amid a sea of rice paddies. She settled in Kampong Chhnang nearly 30 years ago and makes her living by farming and selling firewood. She was married in 1980 but … Seguir leyendo
By James A. Goldston, executive director of the Open Society Justice Initiative (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 14/10/11):
This past Monday, Siegfried Blunk, the international co-investigating judge at the United Nations-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal in Cambodia, resigned. As Judge Blunk explained, repeated demands by senior Cambodian officials to end all ongoing investigations have been “perceived as attempted interference” and “call in doubt the integrity of the whole proceedings.”
For months, civil society organizations, including my own, have warned that the Cambodian government’s public opposition to the two remaining cases under investigation (“003” and “004” in the parlance of the Extraordinary … Seguir leyendo
By Elizabeth Becker, a former New York Times correspondent and author of When the War Was Over, a history of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 18/08/11):
This year is the 20th anniversary of the Paris peace accords that ended the Cambodian war and any further threat from the murderous Khmer Rouge. It required all the major powers — the United States, leading European countries, the former Soviet Union and China — as well as most Asian nations to come up with an accord, a rare achievement. In a speech last week, Gareth Evans said … Seguir leyendo
By Peter Maguire, the author of Facing Death in Cambodia and Law and War: International Law and American History. He has taught the law and theory of war at Bard College and Columbia University (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 21/06/11):
The trial of surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge will begin in Phnom Penh on Monday. The fact that the case has even made it this far is a minor miracle to those of us who were in Cambodia during the 1990s, when the defendants’ amnesties seemed secure.
The court — the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia … Seguir leyendo
Por Thitinan Pongsudhirak, profesor y director del Instituto de Estudios Internacionales y de Seguridad de la Universidad de Chulalongkorn en Bangkok. Es además profesor visitante en la Escuela de Estudios Avanzados de las Universidad Johns Hopkins en Washington. DC. Traducido del inglés por David Meléndez Tormen (Project Syndicate, 06/05/11):
Las escaramuzas militares entre Tailandia y Camboya, que desde febrero se han cobrado más de dos decenas de vidas, causaron numerosos heridos y desplazaron a decenas de miles de personas se pueden atribuir principalmente a la política interna en ambos países. Con raíces en antiguas enemistades y el legado de … Seguir leyendo
By James A. Goldston, the executive director of the Open Society Justice Initiative. In 2007–2008 he was coordinator of prosecutions at the International Criminal Court (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 27/04/11):
More than 30 years after the murderous Khmer Rouge were driven from power in Cambodia, the U.N.-backed effort to bring justice to the victims of the killing fields stands on the brink of ignominious failure due to political interference from the Cambodian government and the indifference of the international community.
A hybrid court, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, has spent over $200 million since it was … Seguir leyendo
By Brendan Brady, a journalist based in Cambodia (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 23/04/11):
Peter Klashorst says it was just another regular day of heat, hawkers and honking in Cambodia’s capital when his walking paintings caused a stir on the street.
Portraits more than six and a half feet high and nearly four feet wide floated by — the large canvases cloaking the men carrying them — leaving pedestrians befuddled and even distressed.
The Dutch artist thinks some people recognized the iconic faces he had rendered: Those of prisoners tortured in the Khmer Rouge’s infamous S-21 prison. Memories of this … Seguir leyendo
By Joel Brinkley, a professor of journalism at Stanford University and the author of Cambodia’s Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land (THE WASHINGTON POST, 17/04/11):
Representatives of more than 3,000 governments and donor organizations are meeting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Wednesday. If past experience is indicative, they will pledge to provide hundreds of millions in aid.
Most of these donors should simply stay home.
Year after year, smiling Cambodian government leaders attend these pledge conferences, holding out their hands. But first they have to listen as ambassadors and aid officers stand at the podium, look them … Seguir leyendo
Por Xavier Pericay, escritor (ABC, 30/12/10):
Habrá que estar eternamente agradecidos al doctor Mu. De no ser por él, lo más probable es que hoy en día careceríamos de un testimonio excepcional para tratar de comprender, en toda su complejidad —esto es, en su bondad y en su maldad infinitas—, la condición humana. El doctor Mu hizo en su momento algo muy simple: le propuso a Denise Affonço que redactara sus propias memorias. Es más, le indicó que no intentara escribir una novela, que relatara tan sólo lo que ella había «visto y vivido, día a día, bajo el … Seguir leyendo
By Brendan Brady, a journalist based in Cambodia (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 20/11/10):
In frontier lands, religious conversion must be the domain of fiery preachers — purveyors of divine wrath who menace those of little faith with warnings of perdition — or of austere missionaries who embrace a punishing lifestyle to inspire the unenlightened. At least, so went the image in my mind.
But Sman Sleh, the province’s imam, was neither. He had soft features and an affable demeanor; he lived comfortably, though not conspicuously so. He moved to this dusty provincial capital several years ago from the country’s … Seguir leyendo
Por Guy Sorman, ensayista (ABC, 18/10/10):
Los cuatro líderes supervivientes del régimen comunista de los Jemeres Rojos (entre los que se encuentra el antiguo jefe del Estado, Jieu Samfan), en la cárcel en Phnom Penh desde 2007, van a ser llevados a los tribunales, en su propio país: el primer juicio del comunismo se va a celebrar finalmente ante un tribunal incuestionable. Este tribunal demostró su eficacia el pasado 26 de julio, al condenar a Duch a 35 años de cárcel: Duch, uno de los engranajes de la máquina exterminadora Jemer Roja, dirigió de 1975 a 1979 un centro … Seguir leyendo
By Kuong Ly, an L.L.M. candidate in International Human Rights Law at the University of Essex, where he is a British Marshall Scholar (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 02/08/10):
Last week, a U.N.-backed tribunal convicted Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, for war crimes in what was the first trial of a major Khmer Rouge figure. Many media reports portrayed the verdict in a positive light, but for survivors, victims and their families, there was nothing positive in this outcome.
An editorial in the International Herald Tribune (“Forgotten victims?” July 29) stated that while the sentence handed down by the … Seguir leyendo
By Peter Maguire, the author of Facing Death in Cambodia and Law and War: International Law and American History. He has taught the law and theory of war at Bard College and Columbia University (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 28/07/10):
Cambodia’s war crimes court, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, or ECCC, deserves credit for convicting Kaing Guek Eav, better known as “Duch,” for war crimes and sentencing him to 35 years in prison. But Duch was the legal equivalent of a “tomato can” in boxing — an unskilled opponent used to pad a win-loss record. His … Seguir leyendo
Par Kar Savuth, avocat à Phnom Penh, ancien prisonnier des Khmers rouges, François Roux, avocat à Montpellier et devant les tribunaux internationaux, et Marie-Paule Canizares, avocate à Montpellier, sont coavocats commis à la défense de Douch (LE MONDE, 10/10/09):
Dans le procès hors du commun de l’ancien Khmer rouge Douch, qui se tient à Phnom Penh depuis février et qui s’achèvera fin novembre, il y a d’abord les victimes, les ex-prisonniers survivants de la prison de sécurité 21 ou “S21″, et les familles de tous les suppliciés.
Disons tout de suite que le pardon des victimes, qui … Seguir leyendo
By Marshall Kim, the owner of a hair salon and the founder of the Cambodian-American Foundation for Education, a charitable organization (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 16/07/09):
I was 15 in 1975, when Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge overtook Cambodia, enslaving my people and turning our farmland into what the world now calls the Killing Fields. During the next four years I lost my mother and father, my brothers, aunts, uncles and friends to the cruel oppression that claimed 1.7 million lives.
As a boy I prayed every day for someone to stop the slavery and the killings. No one did. … Seguir leyendo