Word: khmers
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...swearing-in on July 3 of 25 genocide-tribunal judges and prosecutors was a historic step toward justice for the estimated 1.7 million Cambodians killed under the Khmer Rouge. But the real work starts this week, when U.N. co-prosecutor Robert Petit begins building a case against those responsible for the atrocities committed during the group's 1975-79 reign...
...Harvard in their neighborhood. Sengh Chea served in Vietnam as a medic for the U. S. Army from 1969 until 1975. Originally from Cambodia, he fled the country for the United States in 1981, after he and his wife were tortured in a prison by Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime. Six months after their arrival in the United States, Chea divorced his wife and never saw their two children again. One of them was gunned down in Charlestown, Mass., two years ago. “I don’t feel anything [about the move]. Anywhere, anyplace...
...merely to spread fear: the glue which holds a dictatorship in place. Even the number of people that the government oppresses during the movie are, in a certain historical sense, quaint. The high chancellor’s government killed almost one hundred thousand people? Amateurs! Even the half-baked Khmer Rouge killed over two million, while the Soviets would have considered a hundred thousand dead a mere warm-up. That we can not imagine the true scale of evil capable of being wrought by mankind is telling, far more telling than anything on display...
...reports from troubled places assembled in Incendiary Circumstances, Ghosh begins to find an answer in everyday humanity and its resilience. Faced by those rioters in Delhi in 1984, some women stood up to them and, miraculously, reversed the tide of violence. Following the destruction of their country by the Khmer Rouge, a handful of survivors in Cambodia in 1981 put on a dance performance, piecing their lives together like "rag pickers." Writers have to be solitaries, Ghosh recalls V.S. Naipaul saying, and yet, he seems to feel, to be useful they have to be participants...
...motivation goes back to his time as a refugee. "I learned a lot in the camps," he says. "I learned about dignity, and I learned to see the value of a person." His own value is inestimable. This summer, 30 years after the Khmer Rouge interrupted his education, Sok Thim finally got his medical degree. He'd laugh if you did so, but you can call...