Biographic28,821
Bibliographic93,161
Record No
លេខឯកសារ
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VPA-SI0004 | |
Name
ឈ្មោះ
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Rim Mo Sae
រឹម មូសើ
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Gender
ភេទ
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Male
ភេទ: ប្រុស
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Date Of Birth
ថ្ងៃ-ខែ-ឆ្នាំកំណើត
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19640415 | |
Nationality
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Khmer
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Ethnicity
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Cham
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Occupation
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Fisherman
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Current Address
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Prek Sangke village, Toek Thla commune, Prey Nop district, Preah Sihanouk
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Mode Participation
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Complainant
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Request Protective Measures
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No;
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Prefer form of Reparation
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Collective reparation
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Main Crime Location
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During the Lon Nol regime, there were seven members in my family. Under the Khmer Rouge regime, from 1975 to 1979, particularly January 07, we had only three members left; four had died. 1. My father died from overwork and malnutrition. 2. My older sibling died from overwork and malnutrition. 3. My two younger siblings died from starvation. My mother was put to work without being allowed to return home. Under the Khmer Rouge regime, when I was about ten years old. I saw a unit chief or security police chief hit someone with the whip and tail of a ray fish, and then cover that person’s face with a plastic bag. One day, in about 1976, Chamreun, a child who worked in my unit, went to cut Antreangkhet in order to make fertilizer. When he came back from finding Antreangkhet [a kind of tree used to make fertilizer], a female unit chief named Khan ordered the children in the female children’s unit, consisting of approximately a hundred children, to hit and kick Chamreun until he bled from his noise. It was such a tragic incident. |
Others Crime
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Additional information collected on March 20, 2009:
Death of my father:
In approximately June of 1977, my father, Mean Rim, died from overwork. He lived and worked in Trapeang Sa-uy Village, Andong Thma, and they forced him to plow the fields, transplant rice seedlings, and tend cattle. He was overworked and died from malnutrition because he was thoroughly exhausted. At that time, my mother witnessed the incident because she was with my father. My mother, Tae Amnah, currently lives in Kampong Kes Village, Trapeang Srange Commune, Kampot Province.
An elderly man named Chin (not known if he is alive) was the chief of this region. My father died at home in Trapeang Sa-uy Village, Andong Thma Commune. After Chin, another elderly man named Ngok (not known if he is alive) was in charge of the region. From my point of view, the elderly man named Ta Ngok is responsible for the death of my father.
I think that the rice which we did our best to grow must have been taken somewhere else, because we starved to death. People wanted to eat rice, and we did work hard to grow it. However, people were not allowed to eat the rice which they themselves had grown. During that time, my older sibling, Rim Ny, died.
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Date Completion of Form
កាលបរិច្ឆេទនៃការបំពេញបែបបទ
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20071025 | |
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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