World Cinema: Cambodians take hard self-look
Suon, a Khmer Rouge militia commander, in "Enemies of the People," a documentary directed by Rob Lemkin and Thet Sambath. (Old Street Films) Boy who fled K.Rouge returns to Cambodia a US navy commander 28 Nov 2010 By Michelle Fitzpatrick (AFP) PHNOM PENH — When the destroyer USS Mustin docks in Cambodia next week it will be more than just a routine mission for the ship's commander. Michael Misiewicz is Cambodian by birth and was just a child when he was wrenched from his family and homeland 37 years ago, to be sent away from the country to escape the civil war with the Khmer Rouge. He has not set foot on Cambodian soil since. Monday, November 29, 2010 Boy who fled K.Rouge returns to Cambodia a US navy commander28 Nov 2010 By Michelle Fitzpatrick (AFP) PHNOM PENH — When the destroyer USS Mustin docks in Cambodia next week it will be more than just a routine mission for the ship's commander. Michael Misiewicz is Cambodian by birth and was just a child when he was wrenched from his family and homeland 37 years ago, to be sent away from the country to escape the civil war with the Khmer Rouge. He has not set foot on Cambodian soil since. "I have been fighting a lot of emotions about coming back to my native country," said Misiewicz, who was born Vannak Khem, of his impending return. "To know that I've got relatives there that have wanted to see me for decades... I don't know if I will be able to hold back the tears," he told AFP by telephone aboard the US warship. The 43-year-old was a small boy in the early 1970s when Cambodia was engulfed in a civil war between government troops and communist Khmer Rouge fighters. In 1973, his father arranged for him to be adopted by an American woman who worked at the US embassy and was preparing to leave the increasingly dangerous country. The move meant Misiewicz avoided one of the most brutal chapters of 20th century history -- the 1975-1979 Khmer Rouge regime that caused the deaths of up to two million people from starvation, overwork and execution. "At that age I was a happy-go-lucky kid. I really didn't have any sense of the war or bad things going on in Cambodia," said Misiewicz, recalling that he had no qualms about leaving. "I was excited about getting on a plane, going to a new world where I could eat popcorn and have all the watermelon I wanted," he said. But his mother's tearful goodbye is engraved in his memory. "My mom was so, so upset. I promised her I'd buy her a big house one day." The young Cambodian built a new life for himself in his adoptive country, enlisting in the navy after graduating from high school in Lanark, Illinois. It was while he was attending the US naval academy that he began to learn about the atrocities that had taken place in his homeland. Misiewicz had received no news from his family and assumed the worst. "I felt a lot of guilt. Why was I the lucky one?," he said. "I really doubted that my family had survived the whole Khmer Rouge era. I tried not to think about it." What he did not know was that his mother and three of his four siblings had survived and managed to flee the country in 1983, ending up in the United States themselves. They were now living in Austin, Texas, desperately trying to find him. It took six years of searching, but finally the family learnt that Misiewicz had lived in Alexandria, Virginia when he first arrived in the US. Combing through old phonebooks, they eventually made contact with his ex-babysitter who happened to know his current whereabouts. After 16 years of silence, one phone call reunited him with his family. "One day, in 1989, I got a call out of the blue. It was my older brother," said Misiewicz. The joy of reunion was tempered by the news that his father had been executed by the Khmer Rouge in 1977 and his infant sister had died, probably of malnutrition, during the "Killing Fields" era. Misiewicz, who has more than 300 sailors under his charge, says he often thinks about how hard it must have been to make the choice to separate him from his family. "I am so grateful my father had the wisdom to make that decision. It was a very tough decision, very heart-breaking," he said. Now Misiewicz is looking forward to reconnecting with relatives and exposing his sailors to the country through community outreach projects and training exercises with the Cambodian navy. The USS Mustin, an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, will be stationed in Sihanoukville, on Cambodia's southwestern coastline, for four days from Friday. "I've been so blessed to have had these opportunities and I feel honoured and privileged to come back," the ship's commander said. DATA ANALYSIS : reveals The US sellout of the KHMER PEOPLE IN CAMBODIA in 1975, THROUGH HENRY KISSINGER. Kissinger, in His Own Words "Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy." - Henry Kissinger, quoted in "Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POW's in Vietnam" Henry Alfred Kissinger recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, so was his Vietnamese communist friend . LE DUC THO recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. THAT Nobel Peace Prize WAS AWARDED TO THEM FOR 1. THE ABANDONMENT, OF THE US ALLIED ,THE SOUTH VIETNAM ANTI COMMUNIST REGIME AND THE MURDER OF THE NGO DIHN DIEM FAMILIES. 2. THE US INVASION OF CAMBODIA, A NEUTRAL COUNTRY, A UN MEMBER COUNTRY, AN ALLIED OF THE US GOVERNMENT. 3. THE ABANDONMENT OF CAMBODIA TO THE COMMUNIST IN 1975. 4. THE KILLING OF OVER 600,000 CAMBODIAN INNOCENTS ( The 3,500 bombing sorties resulted in 600,000 deaths. The American bombing of Cambodia was a closely guarded secret primarily because the U.S. was not at war with Cambodia.) p140 FOR CAMBODIA 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. 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. 10 UN RESOLUTIONS,(1979-1988) VOTED BY 116 UN MEMBER COUNTRIES ,CALL VIETNAM TO CEASE HER OCCUPATION OF CAMBODIA & REMOVE ALL HER TROOPS FROM THE COUNTRY, ARE NOT RESPECTED AS OF TODAY. President Reagan's address to the 43d Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, New York,September 26, 1988. "Mr. Secretary-General, there are new hopes for Cambodia, a nation whose freedom and independence we seek just as avidly as we sought the freedom and independence of Afghanistan. We urge the rapid removal of all Vietnamese troops ...." As of today,Cambodia is still occupied by the Vietnamese troops : 1. despite the call from the US President Reagan to Vietnam to cease her occupation of Cambodia since 1988. 2. because America, under President Clinton,( Anti Khmer race ,like Henry Kissinger and his policy of bombing and invasion of Cambodia in 1970's) by 1995 and his group had reversed the Reagan adminstration 's compliance with the 10 UN resolutions. CAMBODIA today remains OCCUPIED BY VIETNAM 1979-2010. why ? Because of this act . AMERICA COLLABORATION WITH VIETNAM COMMUNISM WHILE VIETNAM CONTINUES HER OCCUPATION OF CAMBODIA. WITH PRESIDENT CLINTON : US FOREIGN POLICY IS PARTNERSHIP WITH THE VIETNAMESE COMMUNISTS , AND THE VIETNAMESE OCCUPATION OF CAMBODIA . PRESIDENT CLINTON JUST FORGETS THE 10 YEARS EFFORTS FROM THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION BY IGNORING THE 10 UN RESOLUTIONS CALLING VIETNAM TO QUIT CAMBODIA. CLINTON CAMPAIGNS FOR CLINTON SUPPORTERS Did anybody from the US foreign policy makers team listen to his ? WALL STREET-President Bill Clinton COLLABORATION WITH THE VIETNAMESE OCCUPATION OF CAMBODIA IN VIOLATION OF 10 UN RESOLUTIONS( CALLING VIETNAM TO QUIT CAMBODIA ) President Bill Clinton announced the formal normalization of diplomatic relations with Vietnam on July 11, 1995. Subsequent to President Clinton's normalization announcement, in August 1995, both nations upgraded their Liaison Offices opened during January 1995 to embassy status. As diplomatic ties between the nations grew. While Vietnam continues to occupy Cambodia as of today IN VIOLATION OF these 10 UN resolutions, THE CLINTONS ARE BECOMING THE PARTNERS ,collaborators with THE VIETNAMESE FORCES OF AGGRESSION OF CAMBODIA, AND ARE BECOMING BY NOW THE ANTI KHMER PEOPLE, BY THESE ACTS 3. revealing that AMERICAN GOVERNMENT has no CONSISTENT FOREIGN POLICY, TOWARD ANY COUNTRY AROUND THE WORD. 4. AMERICAN GOVERNMENT IS becoming BY THIS ACT , a partner with the Vietnamese forces of aggression and occupation of Cambodia since 1979-2010 in violation of the UN charter . THIS INCONSISTENT US FOREIGN POLICIES, FROM PRESIDENT REAGAN TO PRESIDENT CLINTON TOWARD CAMBODIA, AND THE KHMER RACE, CONFIRMS,IN DEED, THAT THE US STATE DEPARTMENT IS FULL OF NON CAREER DIPLOMATS, IMMATURE IN WORLD DIPLOMACY. IT'S SO SAD INDEED FOR A GREAT COUNTRY TO BEHAVE IN THIS MANNER TOWARD THE POOR KHMER RACE . Cambodia needs Independence from Vietnam and the Vietnamese invaders. Vietnam must cease her occupation of Cambodia at once. THE MOMENT , AMERICA , STOPS COLLABORATING WITH THE CAMBODIAN ENEMIES(THE VIETNAMESE OCCUPIERS) ALL KHMER COULD FIND INSTANTLY PEACE & JUSTICE. Bury ========================================================================== Data analysis : based Books 1. US Congressional records 1910-1975 2. Side Show Kissinger -Nixon and the destruction of Cambodia by William Shawcross 3. My war with the CIA by Norodom Sihanouk -Wilfred Burchett 4. A soldier reports by Gen Westmoreland 5 Andre Gromyko Memoirs 6. Other books... by Kissinger, Nixon, Reagan , Eustace Mullins, Antony Sutton and documents 7. KGB revelations & US declassified documents Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 09:12:26 -0800 Subject: Teuk Pnaek Krapoeu (Crocodile Tear) From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Please see attachment. Thanks, -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org" group. This is an unmoderated forum. 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