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...valued and empowered over and above the dignity of the individual. What is often overlooked is the disregard for human life and inherent violence that necessarily accompany Marxist revolution—as dissenters and bourgeois are continually purged, communist ideology was actually realized, not neglected, under Mao, Stalin and Pol Pot. As a politics of somber memory, the “liberalism of fear” memorializes those who died to serve someone else’s ideology. These wrenching human tragedies, both past and present, come about when political power reigns without clear and visible limits. What is most...
...Suharto slaughtered 200,000 East Timorese. He opposed and obstructed Vietnam peace talks in 1968 to help Nixon and his “secret plan” get elected, and then convinced him (although it probably wasn’t hard) to massively bomb civilian targets in Cambodia, helping Pol Pot emerge to finish what he’d started. Now Nixon and Pol Pot are dead; Pinochet is indicted and near death. Only Kissinger lives on—Cambodia, Laos, East Timor and Vietnam lie in ruins, a still-smoking homage to his diplomatic vision...
...York City for four months--from the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, when he became a symbol of tough-minded resilience, to the end of his term. We in New York had a longer and more complicated relationship with him. Some loved the U.S. Attorney turned pol for presiding over a huge drop in crime; some hated him for taking a prosecutorial attitude toward everything from race relations to his personal life...
During the genocidal reign of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot in the 1970s, 16,000 Cambodians were herded into Tuol Sleng prison. Only seven made it out, and just two of that group were still thought to be alive. But this month, a third Tuol Sleng survivor emerged. His name is Bo Meng, and he could provide key testimony against his former jailers if long-planned tribunals for the perpetrators of Cambodia's killing fields go forward. Last week, Bo, 61, told TIME how he endured 18 months in the death camp. His wife and children were killed...
Yary Livan. Livan is the sole living master of Cambodia’s traditional ceramics and kiln building techniques, having miraculously avoided a death in Pol Pot’s Killing Fields. He has produced paintings, sculpture and pottery over his long career. Saturday at 9 a.m. Ceramics Program of Harvard’s Office for the Arts, 219 Western Ave., Allston...