WHILE CAMBODIA REMAINS OCCUPIED BY VIETNAM IN VIOLATION OF 10 UN RESOLUTIONS .
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UN Passes Strong Resolution on Cambodia Human Rights Abuses
Feb. 27, 1982 : UN Commission on Human Rights meeting in Geneva adopted a
resolution condemning Vietnam��s occupation of Cambodia as a violation of
Cambodian human rights. The vote was 28 in favor, 8 against, and 5 abstentions.
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Oct. 21, 1986 The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution A/RES/41/6, by vote
of 116-21 with 13 abstentions, calling for a withdrawal of Vietnamese forces
from Cambodia.
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Kaing Kek Iev, aka Duch, was arrested in 1999. According to the Morphology
study on race and forensic data analysis ,Kaing Kek Iev, aka Duch is A
VIETNAMESE.
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100 TORTURE CENTERS across CAMBODIA.
Vietnam's occupation of Cambodia 1979-1989 under Le Duc Tho rule.
An estimated 460 000 innocent Cambodians died , killed , tortured, etc...
100 Torture centers were established across Cambodia. (Methods of torture
described to Amnesty International).
Methods of torture described to Amnesty International as being used by the
Vietnamese forces of invasion and occupation of Cambodia under Le Duc Tho's
rule, from 1979-1989, through the CPP/HUN SEN regime.( an estimated 460 000
innocent Cambodians died during that period)
1. Beatings with truncheons, sharp-edged wooden staves, and iron bars and
whippings
with chains and rubber hoses.( Methods of torture described to Amnesty
International)
2. Near-suffocation with plastic bags,( Methods of torture described to Amnesty
International)
3. Near-drowning in vats of water,( Methods of torture described to Amnesty
International(Methods of torture described to Amnesty International)
CAMBODIA: [Catholic] Church leader shares reasons to rejoice during Easter
season
Monsignor Enrique Figaredo, apostolic prefect of Battambang
May 14, 2009
BATTAMBANG, Cambodia (UCAN) -- This Easter season, Cambodians have reason to
rejoice and look forward to a future full of hope, says the head of the Church
in Battambang.
In his Easter message, Spanish Monsignor Enrique Figaredo, apostolic prefect of
Battambang, one of three Church jurisdictions in Cambodia, notes that Easter
this year was celebrated at the same time as the Cambodian New Year -- when
Cambodians look forward to renewal in their lives.
The Easter season, which celebrates Christ's resurrection, began on Easter
Sunday on April 12, and will end on Pentecost Sunday on May 31. Cambodians
celebrated their New Year on April 13-14.
Monsignor Figaredo, 49, says that the ongoing trial of those thought to be
responsible for war crimes during the Khmer Rouge era (1975-1979), would allow
the nation to conclude a traumatic part of its history and move on to a new
future.
Another reason for rejoicing, he cites, is the irrigation project in Tahen,
just east of Battambang, that will allow farmers to harvest rice twice a year
and also plant more vegetables, as well as provide a more reliable source of
water.
Following is Monsignor Figerado's Easter message:
When we want to talk about LIFE, in capital letters, we are talking about
moving on from a mediocre or weak situation to a full life. Easter means this:
changing to a more real life, rooted in divine solidarity. Easter makes us
understand God's proximity and makes our lives closer to God -- a life that
overcomes death.
In our cultural settings, which are always diverse, we have many ways of
dealing with contradictions -- our own and those we come up against in life.
As Christians, we have a faith experience that helps us to appreciate the
cultural context and meaning of the symbols and readings of the Easter season.
In Cambodia, we are very fortunate in that when we celebrate Easter, it's very
close to the time when we celebrate the Cambodian New Year, where change and
moving on to a new life are celebrated. According to Cambodian tradition, the
angels come down from heaven to bless families, their lands, their homes, their
villages and entrust the people with new light for the coming year. It's a new
step in life. Water is an essential symbol in this path to a new life.
In this Cambodian New Year and Easter time, in our context, we have three main
reasons to celebrate our step to a more real life.
We are in the middle of a trial about the genocide caused by Pol Pot and his
allies. This trial will conclude an era in Cambodian history and invite us to
move on. We have had to wait 30 years for this. Life in Cambodia is still so
politicized and self interest continues to motivate people in power such that
any justice from the trial may not impact much on peoples lives now, but at
least we will be able to look towards the future with some healing of past
hurts and injustices.
Today there is no justice. But at least, in my opinion, because of this trial
we won't have to look back with shame at the past. We will be able to remember
it with less pain and look to the future with more strength and less fear,
because we can hope that those who act with impunity now will be brought to
justice in the future.
Cambodian New Year brings blessings for all and gives us strength in this time
of global economic crisis that is also affecting our local economy, and
Cambodian social life. As always, the "little ones," the poor, who here in
Cambodia are 95 percent of the population, suffer in silence, losing their jobs
and opportunities for progress, and readjusting their lives according to the
new international market situation that is affecting the very small Cambodian
economy.
The blessings of the Cambodian angels give us strength to face this new
situation that demands readjustments in our new lives. One reality is that many
young people who moved to the city for work, now have to go back to the
countryside. Today in Cambodia we need to create local economies in small
villages and towns where the majority of the population lives.
In Tahen, we have undertaken a river project that talks to us about LIFE. The
project provides new opportunities in response to people's needs -- to plant
rice twice a year and the cultivation of more vegetables and gardens. It also
means improved hygiene and an increased capacity to take care of the
environment. This project has been initiated thanks to the solidarity of
ordinary people who have chosen to put "a drop of hope" into the lives of the
Tahen people ("A DROP OF HOPE" project).
This is the Easter story alive in Tahen today. The grandmothers, the old
people, talked to me about their happiness in seeing how the river bed has been
enlarged. They see a future for their children and grandchildren now. They have
been through everything: war, the Pol Pot era and injustice. And today they
witness new possibilities for their families. They have gone through their own
long "Passion," and today they are happy because they see that coming
generations will have what they could not have -- solidarity in order to have
life.
These three symbols -- the lively and joyful celebrations of the Cambodian New
Year; the trial of the genocide of the Cambodian people that creates a
precedent in future efforts to seek justice; the river project which will bring
an abundance of water and which was developed out of solidarity with others --
all root us in hope and gives us strength for LIFE.
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