Dear Pou Baphoun,
Thank you very much for sharing your testimony here. I see it as a very noble
and courageous initiative and you have a very interesting approach of the
problem. Of course as you have well emphasized here, and I totally agree with
you, most of documents or books relating to Khmer rouge got its source from
Yuon Hanoi and those who are yuon Hanoi crime partners. Even Mr Dy Kareth's
college who recently wrote an article supposed to be an anti 7 January article
but oddly held a yuon discourse justifying yuon invading of Cambodia instead.
Sad but true, most documents and history books are reported or wrote by those
who made history and not those who endured history. In one word, almost history
books are reported by the winners to the detriments of the victims - a kind of
clean papers to the glory of those who perpetuate crimes and afflicted crimes
to others. Although among these clean papers recited some historical facts that
merit to be considered but how readers, cultivated and intellectually depending
on these sources, can distingue right from wrong ones. To this extent, memory
of the victims have been soiled and massacred again and again after being
victims of horrible crimes or massacre again their persons by these criminals
or their organization. Reasons why I'm aware of sources of documents even from
the most renaming academics. I believe most of academic institutions and
intellectuals caution this kind of worldwide criminal political and historical
falsification, a kind of genocide of memory of the victims. After all, those
victims are, or killed or weak, or poor and they are intellectually much
inferior to those who killed them. They can barely contest those who killed
them and lead kind of genocide of memory against them. I found it "Cruel",
"Unjust" and opposite to our human sense. Some people viewed me as
"revisionist" because I often contested official version of genocide in
Cambodia which I considered as "Has No Regard to the victims and their
memories". I think it is important to form a worldwide parallel institution, a
kind of antithesis academic oppose to those official (and criminal )
institutions in order to preserve memory of victims of genocide, of
oppressions, of abuses or other kind of crimes of its extent. People cant just
pick few words, few dates, a piece of things, of event to drawn a conclusion to
their advantage specially while it concerns some vital issues. Every aspect of
things needs to be considered to get closer to a TRUTH.
Although I found your article a bit "inconsistent" Of course between us, I
believe that most of events and things that are cited in your article are true.
I heard the same things from a bunch of old people who lived these events.
Unfortunately till today no one did anything concrete to make these events and
testimonies a credit sources that people can cite in their writing or speech. I
believe, you need to be more precise to the date, name of people you cite,
their location or biography etc, in your article. Then you need to public it
in your or a credit information support to make it official. To be serious, I
think it is important that this kind of documents should be written by people
with their real identity.
Time is running against us. Most of our elders who have lived these events
directly are old, some are already pass away and cant to nothing now that way
it is urgent for all of you who still alive to write up events or testimony,
like the one of Pou Baphoun, that you have lived before and after the killing
field. It is vital to preserve these testimonies if not, memories of our
people, our victims will lose forever to the profit of the assassins and it is
a lost for humanity.
I talked with Lok Chhang few years back, DCC wishes to collect all testimonies,
not only clean and official version, this including oral history from ordinary
people and preserve it as part of documents in DCC. But till today I don't know
if this project is being realized or just on lip. Although you and other people
can write and sent it to Lok Chhang or direct it to me to I can discuss with
Lok Chhang how it can be operate with DCC or at least I can ask to preserve
them and public them on Amekhmer.
Again thank you
Bopha Angkor
----- Original Message -----
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 3:42 AM
Subject: January 7, 1979, the Vietnamese V-Day over the Imperialism &
Vietnam's swalloing Cambodia
Dear all,
Please click the link to read my article in attached pdf in KHMER relative
to Vietnamese Invasion of Cambodia, January 07, 1979.
January 07, 1979 was officially recognized by the Government of Hanoi as the
V-Day over the Imperialism.
Under another name, it was also the Day where Vietnam was swallowing Cambodia
and became the master of Indochina.
Thanks you so much for your time.
Baphon
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