Sunday, December 12, 2010
This year I learnt ... by Rob Hamill Rob Hamill (Photo: Reuters)12/12/2010 Sunday Star Times (New Zealand) ROB HAMILL, 46, Olympic and trans-Atlantic rower, Te Pahu. Thirty-two years ago Hamill's eldest brother, Kerry, was abducted, tortured and killed by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. THIS YEAR I learnt... ...more about the thin and fragile line separating good and evil. And that we are all capable of both. Coming to understand that better has been quite...what is the word? Scary? This year I went to Cambodia for the sentencing of Duch, the man who ran the prison my brother was incarcerated in. I also spent time travelling the country interviewing victims and perpetrators for a documentary we're making called Brother Number One. I'm trying to come to terms with the scary realisation that, depending on circumstances, everyone, or almost everyone, is capable of performing the atrocities these people committed. I was kind of put in the difficult position of interviewing one of the people who was responsible for torturing my brother. You might think it odd but I didn't wish to inflict a similar fate on him. Oh, don't worry, I've had thoughts of revenge, but I reckon violence met with violence achieves nothing, other than perhaps creating more violence. TO COMPARE, TO DUCH THE VIETNAMESE , THE 20 000 KHMER KILLER DURING POL POT ERA, TO HENRY KISSINGER WITH SECRET BOMBING OF CAMBODIA IN 1969-1972 , LE DUC THO , and William Laws Calley? IT IS JUST A SCAPE GOAT, issued by THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, and THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK . (1) Henry A. Kissinge 1. HENRY KISSINGER : 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.) 2. LE DUC THO HAD KILLED 460 000 INNOCENTS CAMBODIAN 1979-1989 3. DUCH (VIETNAMESE ) 20 000 INNOCENT CAMBODIAN DURING THE POL POT ERA 4. THE MONSTER OF MY LAI 100-500 VIET ? 5. THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS & FEDERAL RESERVE BANK THAT HAD KILLED 100 000 US SOLDIERS IN KOREA AND VIETNAM . ===================== HERE ARE THE MONSTERS : Le DUC THO was born "Phan Dinh Khai" in the Nam Ha province of Vietnam. In 1930, Le helped found the Indochinese Communist Party. Kang Kek Iew Kang Kek Iew during his trial (2009) Born 17 November 1942 (1942-11-17) (age 68) Kampong Chen, Kampong Thom Province, French Indochina THIS SCAPEGOAT William Laws Calley. William Laws Calley Born June 8, 1943 (1943-06-08) (age 67) Second Lieutenant[1] Unit Company C, 1st Battalion, Vietnam War My Lai Massacre, CONSIDERED AS : The monster of the My Lai massacre Scroll down for more Mai Lai: Between 100 and 500 people were slaughtered Found: The monster of the Cambodia secret bombing HENRY KISSINGER. THIS MAN FROM THE COUNCIL OF FOREIGN RELATIONS SAYS THIS AS CFR"S DICTUM . 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" 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.) WE ARE SEEING THE CFR TEAM SUCH AS HENRY KISSINGER , BREZEZINSKI, ALBRIGHT, HOLDBROOKE GAME PLAN FAKING WITH THE PURSUIT AN IMAGINARY TERRORISTS IN AFGHANISTAN . THIS PATTERN OF US FOREIGN POLICY AND PHONY WARS FROM COL EDWARD HOUSE, ALGER HISS, Mcgeorge Bundy ,HENRY KISSINGER IS CLEARLY SEEN HERE . I TAKE THIS LIBERTY TO UPDATE THE SITUATION IN CAMBODIA 1979-2010. CAMBODIA REMAINS OCCUPIED BY VIETNAM . The US sellout of the KHMER PEOPLE IN CAMBODIA in 1975, THROUGH HENRY KISSINGER.(CFR AGENT) (1) WHAT DID HENRY KISSINGER DO THE KHMER PEOPLE IN CAMBODIA ? HIS AMBASSADOR MR. JOHN GUNTHER DEAN, LEFT THE COUNTRY , FROM THE ROOF TOP OF THE US EMBASSY BUILDING , TO CATCH AN HELICOPTER , LIKE A THIEF , IN APRIL 1975. WHAT DID HE SAY ? THIS MAN FROM THE COUNCIL OF FOREIGN RELATIONS SAYS THIS AS CFR"S DICTUM . 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" 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.) 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. 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 further reading Fact is, I would have lowered myself to the level of the perpetrator himself if I'd been aggressive. Anyway, avoiding the emotional part gave me the opportunity to recognise each individual Cambodian really was a victim in his or her own way. The learnings from that little experience continues like the grieving process. That was my second time to Cambodia. The first was last year with the trial, where I took the stand to testify. I had been trying to get some reconciliation in my own mind about what occurred, to allow me some freedom, you know, to move on. And I was working towards that until I saw S-21, the prison itself, then I just completely, I went really dark on it. Any chance of forgiveness for that man Duch, who ran the prison, just evaporated. But interviewing those individuals, victims and perpetrators, I've become more open to the possibility of letting go again. It seems the more you explore these things, the more you try to understand, the more you pull away the veil of ignorance, then the more opportunity there is to allow yourself to move on. Kerry was missing for 16 months before we heard the terrible news. About nine months after we discovered Kerry's fate, my second-oldest brother, John, killed himself. And, you know, my parents were distraught but had no one to talk to really. Of course, close relations did what they could to help but my parents were pretty much isolated, there were no social support professionals available. I guess if there's a message there, I'd say to people, reach out and try and talk about it. Cambodia is now finally finding its own voice to talk about their past and be heard. But the biggest learning has come from Kerry himself. He was forced to write a confession, under duress, stating that he was a CIA agent. He used that confession, I believe, to remove himself from the horror by writing about life in New Zealand and its geography: Great Barrier Island, National Park, the list went on. And to emphasise the absurdity of the confession he named his own friends and family as fellow CIA trainees and trainers. And, sense of humour intact, he named Colonel Sanders as one of his trainers. The most poignant part in the confession was where he named the public speaking instructor as S.Tarr. Our mother's name is Esther. In this most dire of situations he was sending a coded message of love and hope to Mum. We all have choices how we react to different situations. My brother chose, I think, a very brave, courageous course that transported him home and by doing so he gave himself something to live for, if only for that moment in time. 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