Biographic28,821
Bibliographic93,161
Record No
លេខឯកសារ
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VPA-KR0004 | |
Name
ឈ្មោះ
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Chou Taing
ជូ តាំង
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Gender
ភេទ
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Male
ភេទ: ប្រុស
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Age
អាយុ
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66 | |
Nationality
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Khmer
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Ethnicity
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Mil
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Birth Place
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Chang Hap village, Kbal Damrei commune, Sambo district, Kratie province
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Occupation
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Farmer
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Current Address
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Chang Hap village, Kbal Damrei commune, Sambo district, Kratie province
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Mode Participation
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Civil Party
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Request Protective Measures
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No;
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Prefer form of Reparation
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Hospital
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Main Crime Date
កាលបរិច្ឆេទឧក្រិដ្ឋកម្មសំខាន់ៗ
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1977 |
Main Crime Location
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Additional information collected on April 06, 2010 Arrest and imprisonment of my father-in-law, Neang Ham, in Kduoch Prison In mid-1976, two communal combatants (whose names I forget) called upon my father-in-law, Neang Ham, to work at a commune. That evening, my wife, Neang Hout, and I witnessed the incident, because we were all present together at home. The following morning, following their order, he left without even saying a word. When he arrived at the communal hall, I noticed that he was held at gunpoint and escorted away. At that time, I did not know where he was taken. Next, I learned that he was taken to Kduoch Prison, because one relative named Uncle Yan (deceased) informed me that he saw my father-in-law being sent to Kduoch Prison. He learned this information because he did farming nearby. Upon working in Sambo, I ran into Uncle Yan, and he informed me that my father-in-law had been taken to Kdouch Prison half a month ago. I thought that my father-in-law was arrested because he confronted [the Khmer Rouge] about communal eating and collective property. Unsatisfied, he stood up and confronted the policies of [the Khmer Rouge]. A chief of Kbal Damrei Commune (whom I do not know), stated that my father-in-law had a tendency toward private ownership. This was the reason why my father was captured and imprisoned. It was fortunate that he was released two years later. Between 1976 and 1978, though we knew that my father was detained in Kduoch Prison, my family and I never went to visit him, because we could not go anywhere freely and had to ask permission from the Khmer Rouge to visit him. At the beginning, I thought he must have been dead, because when someone was taken away, it usually meant they were dead. Under the Khmer Rouge regime, we lived in Chang Hap Village, Kbal Damrei Commune, Sambo District, Kratie Province. The village chief was Ta Thang (deceased), and the commune chief was Chhan (deceased). After my father-in-law returned, he lived with our family. Afterward, he informed me that at the beginning of his detention, he was interrogated and tortured. They asked him about his network and why he dared to confront them about collective property and communal eating. In response, he stated that he had no network. My father said that for the first three or four months, he was beaten every two or three days. After they stopped torturing him, they put him to work doing heavy tasks such as building rice dikes, uprooting trees, etc. He said that sometimes they kicked him and beat him with a barrel during the interrogation. He did not know the security police or persons in charge of the torturing unit or the prison at Kduoch, nor did he tell me their names. He mentioned that serious offenders would be shot dead or killed after the interrogation. In the prison, inmates were shackled at night. Light offenders, like him, were shackled on one leg only. Serious offenders were shackled on both legs. The prison was not made of wood or cement. They used only bamboo to build it. He stated that prisoners were kept in many places, based on the degree of their offense. He had many assigned tasks and little food to eat. He went to work with nothing inside his stomach, from six a.m. to twelve p.m., before he was given a bowl of rice soup. Then [he] went back to work, from twelve p.m. to five p.m., before receiving another bowl of rice soup to eat. At night, [he] had to work from seven p.m. to nine p.m. without receiving any extra food. He asserted that those who escaped from the prison would be dead immediately after being caught. After he tried to re-educate himself and work very hard, they released him. |
Others Crime
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In late 1977, district Khmer Rouge soldiers captured my niece, Chou Koeun, and took her away. She has disappeared since and never returned. Soldiers from other far district came to capture her -- not from Sambo district.
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Date Completion of Form
កាលបរិច្ឆេទនៃការបំពេញបែបបទ
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20081128 | |
Petitioner
អ្នកដាក់ញ្ញាត់
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No; | |
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The Prevention and Punishment of the Crimes of Genocide
By Youk Chhang
The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide stands alongside the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as one of the key pillars of international human rights law, and for this Human Rights Day in 2022, I want to highlight the critical importance of the responsibility to prevent atrocity crimes, which includes genocide. When atrocity crimes occur, there is an immediate need to stop these atrocious acts, followed by the equally urgent tasks of documenting, investigating, and ultimately prosecuting the perpetrators. However, from 1948 to today, we have not given enough attention to true prevention.
Atrocity crimes do not occur in a vacuum. There is a long chain of events and conditions that precede atrocity crimes. Isolation, segregation, and discrimination frequently, if not always, precede the rationalization of atrocity crimes against a group of people. And before people are discriminated against, they must be dehumanized. The process of dehumanization depends upon rationalizing hatred and distrust, and these processes are precipitated by misinformation, fueled by uninformed biases, stereotypes, and exploitative actors. They are also frequently dependent upon the disintegration, corruption, or lack of development of critical institutions, in particular institutions dedicated to dialogue and education. It is here that we must dedicate our greatest attention.
Since 1948, we have made great strides toward taking actions that interrupt, mitigate, and to a very limited extent, punish the chief perpetrators of atrocity crimes; however, these actions are not preventative but reactive in nature. No atrocities crime trial has ever prevented the next genocide, and no sanctions or punishment can bring back the dead or undo the trauma that extends across multiple generations. Indeed, the trauma of atrocity crimes in the distant past are often the forgotten seeds for the next wave of violence and inhumanity of the future.
If we are to truly adopt strategies that are effective, far reaching, and decisive in preventing atrocity crimes, then our priorities must be re-oriented to the opposite end of the spectrum, where the seeds of the next genocide are cultivated. Our responsibility in complying with foundational human rights documents should be measured not solely by our success at responding, investigating, and prosecuting atrocity crimes, but by our efforts in supporting institutions, initiatives, and actions that have a positive influence in preventing all forms of inhumanity. The most effective strategy at preventing the next genocide is centered on actions and policies that interrupt and reduce the risk of escalation at the earliest stages of inhumanity.
Cambodia recently removed human rights days from public calendars. I think we should reconsider this collective decision. Cambodia has achieved extraordinary success in its genocide education programme, which is the essence of atrocity crimes prevention. And so, to capitalize on this success and Cambodia’s regional and even global leadership in this area, we should hold an annual dialogue on the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. As the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) closes its doors, there is no better time than now to preserve Cambodia’s leadership and momentum in realizing the core objectives of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
The Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) is proud of the support it has given to the ECCC’s work, which was fundamental to giving victims an opportunity to participate in the justice process and realize some sense of closure from the Khmer Rouge genocide. DC-Cam is also eager to support an annual conference on the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. As we commemorate this Human Rights Day, we would be mindful to recognize our fundamental human rights documents are not only universal commitments, but also standards for evaluating the kind of world we are leaving for the next generation.
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Youk Chhang is Executive Director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia. The Center dedicating to Justice, Memory, and Healing for survivors of the Khmer Rouge genocide.
Photo above: Children at Angkor Wat, 1979. After the collapse of the Khmer Rouge regime on 7 January 1979, hundreds of thousands of children were left orphaned. From 1975 to 1979, the Khmer Rouge led Cambodia into tragedy causing the deaths of over 2 million people. Although two millions were killed, five millions more survived to tell their story. The perpetrators of these crimes also survived. Photo: Documentation Center of Cambodia Archives.
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