Archivo etiqueta «Camboya»
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
By John Pilger (THE GUARDIAN, 21/02/09):
At my hotel in Phnom Penh, the women and children sat on one side of the room, palais-style, the men on the other. It was a disco night and a lot of fun; then suddenly people walked to the windows and wept. The DJ had played a song by the much-loved Khmer singer Sin Sisamouth, who had been forced to dig his own grave and to sing the Khmer Rouge anthem before he was beaten to death. I experienced many such reminders.
There was another kind of reminder. In the village of Neak Long … Seguir leyendo
By François Bizot, the author of The Gate, a memoir. This essay was translated by The Times from the French (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 17/02/09):
After 10 years of detention, Kaing Guek Eav, alias Comrade Duch, is to appear today before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity. He was arrested in 1999, after 20 years of living incognito, for crimes committed on his orders as commander of the Tuol Sleng prison in Phnom Penh from 1975 to 1979, when the Khmer Rouge controlled Cambodia and were responsible for … Seguir leyendo
By Sichan Siv, a former United States ambassador to the United Nations, is the author of the forthcoming Golden Bones (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 26/04/08):
Cambodians and other Theravada Buddhists celebrate their New Year in mid-April. They were not always able to do so. Under Khmer Rouge and Vietnamese rule, those ancient traditions were forbidden, impossible. But now Cambodia is free again and the festivities are in the open. As I wander the country of my youth, I see people spending the long holiday praying at temples and visiting relatives.
And I remember. My family used to hold a … Seguir leyendo
Por William R. Polk, del consejo de Planificación Política del Dpto. de Estado bajo la presidencia de J. F. Kennedy © William R. Polk. Traducción: Juan Gabriel López Guix (LA VANGUARDIA, 02/01/08):
Camboya es el enigma de Asia. Según su pasado reciente, debería ser una sociedad herida, sacudida por los odios, asolada por los conflictos y empobrecida por años de guerra. Sin embargo, nada de eso parece caracterizar al país hoy. Por tanto, la pregunta a la que se enfrenta el visitante es cómo ha logrado ese país renacer de una de las experiencias más espantosas de los tiempos … Seguir leyendo
By Rosemary Righter (THE TIMES, 03/08/07):
Angka. Duch. Monosyllables that, 30 years on, Cambodians can barely be induced to utter, even within the family, so unbearable is the pain, the abiding fear, and also the eerily generalised guilt those words invoke.
Angka, “the collective”: the murderous Khmer Rouge forbade people to attach names or faces to the regime that was bent on crushing all traces of identity out of them.
Duch, the Year Zero sobriquet of Kaing Khek Ieu: now a born-again Christian, but between 1975 and 1979 the Angka’s methodical torture master. This week, a full decade after it … Seguir leyendo
By Alex Hinton, an associate professor of anthropology at Rutgers University at Newark and is the author of “Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide.” (THE WASHINGTON POST, 04/08/06):
Ta Mok, the notorious former Khmer Rouge military commander and central committee member nicknamed “The Butcher,” died two weeks ago today. His death, like that of Pol Pot in 1998, deprives Cambodians of yet another chance to see a key architect of the Cambodian genocide held accountable for the campaign of mass murder unleashed from 1975 to 1979.
Ta Mok’s passing was filled with ironies. Most immediate … Seguir leyendo
By Nathaniel Myers, former adviser to a coalition of Cambodian nongovernmental organizations on issues concerning the Khmer Rouge tribunal (THE WASHINGTON POST, 24/12/05):
Speaking to a Senate subcommittee two years ago, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said that, given the level of “lawlessness and impunity” in the country under discussion, it made “no sense” to even consider convening a human rights tribunal to conduct trials on the heinous crimes of the ousted regime. The country he was referring to was not Iraq — though it certainly could have been — but Cambodia, where the United Nations had just finished negotiations … Seguir leyendo