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...Nevertheless, the researchers also found that 90% of respondents said that members of the Khmer Rouge should be held legally responsible for their crimes. Many, including Vann Nath, a nationally renowned painter who survived Tuol Sleng because Duch put him to work rendering portraits of Pol Pot, hope that Duch's appearance in court means the beginning of that long-delayed accountability. During a break in the hearing, Vann Nath said he had waited a long time to see his old jailer on trial. "When he was in power, he was brutal, I was afraid to look at his face...
...Nearly 50 years ago, in The Burden of Southern History, the historian C. Vann Woodward argued that the South was profoundly different from the rest of America because it was the only part of the country that had lost a war: "Southern history, unlike American ... includes not only an overwhelming military defeat but long decades of defeat in the provinces of economic, social and political life." Woodward believed that this heritage led Southerners to be more obsessed with the past than other Americans were - at its worst, in popular works like Gone With the Wind, there was a gagging nostalgia...
...never really know, a country with a much greater potential for justice and creativity - and perhaps even prosperity - than the sepia-tinted version of Main Street America. But that vision is not sellable right now to a critical mass of Americans. They live in a place, not unlike C. Vann Woodward's South, where myths are more potent than the hope of getting past the dour realities they face each...
...wrote a book about the history of the war centered around the biography of Army Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann entitled “A Bright Shining Light,” which won him a Pulitzer Prize...
...Vann Nath, 62, another S-21 survivor and a well-known Cambodian artist, said he did not attend the hearing as Duch's appeal for release, eloquently argued by his U.N.-sponsored lawyers, made a mockery of the dead and those who narrowly survived. "Where was the U.N.?? he asks. ?Where were the international judges and lawyers when I was in S-21? Where were the human rights groups to help me at that time...