Palm sugar (Skor Thnot) production season
A Cambodian man climbs up a palm tree for collecting palm juice at Lar Peang village, Kampong Chhnang province, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009. Traditionally, some rural people spend time to collect the palm juice to produce palm sugar to earn extra income after the rice harvested season. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)A Cambodian man sits on the top of a palm tree as he collects palm juice at Lar Peang village, Kampong Chhnang province, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009. Traditionally, some rural people spend time to collect the palm juice to produce palm sugar to earn extra income after the rice harvested season. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)A Cambodian baby girl helps her mother make a fire to produce palm sugar from palm juice at Lar Peang village, Kampong Chhnang province, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009. Traditionally, some rural people spend time to collect the palm juice to produce palm sugar to earn extra income after the rice harvested season. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)A Cambodian woman stirs palm sugar in a pan as her daughter eats a little at Lar Peang village, Kampong Chhnang province, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009. Traditionally, some rural people spend time to collect the palm juice to produce palm sugar to earn extra income after the rice harvested season. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)Cambodian men weigh palm sugar before selling to buyer at Lar Peang village, Kampong Chhnang province, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009. Traditionally, some rural people spend time to collect the palm juice to produce palm sugar to earn extra income after the rice harvested season. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith) 7NG ups compensation offer Two of Dey Krahorm's remaining 120 residents sit in their slum house last week. (Photo by: Tracey Shelton)Monday, 12 January 2009 Written by Chhay Channyda The Phnom Penh Post > Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:01:08 -0800> Subject: Re: The Khmers & The Germans: > A Comparative Stu> From: [email protected]> To: > [email protected]> > > Is this the same organization that recognized > the KR all along?> > On Jan 13, 4:27 pm, Westernstarr > <[email protected]> wrote:> > But why the KR Tribunal didn't charge any > of them with genocide ?> >> > Have you ever asked ?> >> > On Wed, Jan 14, > 2009 at 7:10 AM, Chon Chumleas <[email protected]>wrote:> >> >> >> >> > >> > > The international legal definition of the crime of genocide is found> > > > in Articles II and III of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and> > > > Punishment of Genocide.> >> > > Article II describes two elements of the > crime of genocide:> >> > > 1) the mental element, meaning the "intent to > destroy, in whole or in> > > part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious > group, as such", and> >> > > 2) the physical element which includes five acts > described in sections> > > a, b, c, d and e. A crime must include both > elements to be called> > > "genocide."> >> > > Article III described five > punishable forms of the crime of genocide:> > > genocide; conspiracy, > incitement, attempt and complicity.> >> > > If you listened to people who > witness Pol Pot crime, forget about 1 to> > > 2 millions people who got > killed, it matched the definition quite> > > well. Does it?> >> > > On Jan > 12, 8:57 pm, Westernstarr <[email protected]> wrote:> > > > Mass muder, > crime against humanity. Or you an ask the UN why their> > > tribunal> > > > > didn't charge Duch with genocide.> >> > > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:04 PM, > Chon Chumleas <[email protected]> > > >wrote:> >> > > > > If "The word > Genocide in the Khmer Rouge context only arose out of> > > > > the> > > > > > propanganda of the Hanoi regime", what is the better alternative?> > > > > I > hope is not paradise.> >> > > > > On Jan 12, 6:07 pm, Westernstarr > <[email protected]> wrote:> > > > > > But,> > > > > > The Allies didn't > send in their people to settle in Germany> > > > > > The Allies didn't rule > Germany like the way Le Duc Tho ruled Cambodia> > > as> > > > > a> > > > > > > colony ( if you only bother to listen to Bui Tin)> > > > > > The Allies tried > to make the Trial of the Nazis transparent to the> > > > > outside> > > > > > > world> > > > > > The US helped reform Japan's democracy and didn't send in > million of> > > US> > > > > > citizens to settle in Japan> > > > > > The word > Genocide in the Khmer Rouge context only arose out of the> > > > > > > propanganda of the Hanoi regime> > > > > > The Khmer Tribunal only charged > the Gang of Five with Crime against> > > > > humanity> > > > > > and war > crime, not with genocide. Only if you go back and read what> > > > > > genocide> > > > > > is in international law. Interesting here.> >> > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Soriya <[email protected]>> > > wrote:> > >> > > > > > > The Khmers & The Germans: A Comparative Study> >> > > > > > > > 1)> > > > > > > a) The Khmers: Pol Pot & the Khmer Rouge committed a > genocide> > > against> > > > > > > their own people, the Cambodian people.> > >> > > > > > > b) The Germans: Adolf Hitler & the Nazi did NOT commit a > genocide> > > > > > > against their own people, the German people. They > committed a> > > genocide> > > > > > > against a foreign race, the Jews.> >> > > > > > > > 2)> > > > > > > a) The Khmers: Pol Pot's Cambodia provoked > Vietnam into the war.> > > The> > > > > > > war between Pol Pot's Cambodia & > Vietnam erupted.> >> > > > > > > b) The Germans: Adolf Hitler's Germany > provoked the Allies into the> > > > > > > war. The war between Adolf Hitler's > Germany & the Allies, aka World> > > > > > > War 2 or WW2, erupted.> >> > > > > > > > 3)> > > > > > > a) The Khmers: Vietnam invaded Pol Pot's Cambodia. Pol > Pot was> > > > > > > defeated by Vietnam. The Cambodian people were rescued > from the> > > > > > > genocide by Vietnam.> >> > > > > > > b) The Germans: > The Allies invaded Adolf Hitler's Germany. Adolf> > > > > > > Hitler was > defeated by the Allies. The Jews were rescued from the> > > > > > > genocide > by the Allies.> >> > > > > > > 4)> > > > > > > a) The Khmers: Vietnam > installed a Cambodian government in Cambodia> > > > > > > made up of > Cambodians who opposed Pol Pot.> >> > > > > > > b) The Germans: The Allies > installed a German government in Germany> > > > > > > made up of Germans who > opposed Adolf Hitler.> >> > > > > > > 5)> > > > > > > a) Later on Vietnam > completely withdrew from Cambodia.> >> > > > > > > b) Later on The Allies > completely withdrew from Germany.> >> > > > > > > 6)> > > > > > > a) The > Khmers: Some Khmers claim that Pol Pot & the Khmer Rouge> > > > > > > > committed the genocide because Vietnam ordered them to do so.> >> > > > > > > > b) The Germans: No German no Jew has ever claimed that Adolf Hitler> > > &> > > > > > > > the Nazi committed the genocide because the Allies ordered them to> > > > do> > > > > > > so.> >> > > > > > > 7)> > > > > > > a) The Khmers: Some > Khmers insult & curse Vietnam for invading Pol> > > > > > > Pot's Cambodia, > toppling Pol Pot, & rescuing the Cambodian people> > > from> > > > > > > the > genocide.> >> > > > > > > b) No German no Jew has ever insulted or cursed the > Allies for> > > > > > > invading Adolf Hitler's Germany, toppling Adolf > Hitler, & rescuing> > > the> > > > > > > Jews from the genocide.> >> > > > > > > > ----------------------------------------> >> > > > > > > An Interesting > Note:> >> > > > > > > The German people, who even weren't the subject of the > genocide &> > > thus> > > > > > > weren't the ones whom the allies rescued > from the genocide, have> > > never> > > > > > > insulted or cursed The Allies > for defeating & toppling Adolf> > > Hitler.-> > > > > Hide quoted text -> >> > > > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text -> >> > > > - Show quoted > text -- Hide quoted text -> >> > - Show quoted text -> > _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™ Hotmail®: Chat. 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