Biographic28,821
Bibliographic93,161
Record No
លេខឯកសារ
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VPA-KD0039 | |
Name
ឈ្មោះ
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Meng Aun
ម៉េង អូន
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Gender
ភេទ
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Female
ភេទ: ស្រី
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Date Of Birth
ថ្ងៃ-ខែ-ឆ្នាំកំណើត
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19510806 | |
Nationality
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Khmer
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Ethnicity
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Khmer
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Birth Place
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Preah Theat Village, Roluos Commune, Kandal Stung District, Kandal
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Occupation
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Farmer
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Current Address
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Krapeu Trom Village, Roluos Commune, Kandal Stung District, Kandal Province
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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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Depend on the judges
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Main Crime Date
កាលបរិច្ឆេទឧក្រិដ្ឋកម្មសំខាន់ៗ
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1977 |
Main Crime Location
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My name is Meng Aun, and I am currently living in Krapeu Trom Village, Roluos Commune, Kandal Stung District, Kandal Province. During the Khmer Rouge regime, I suffered seriously as a detainee in Sang Prison; in addition, my husband was arrested and has never been seen since. Detention in Sang prison: In 1975 when the Khmer Rouge took control of the country, they subjected the entire populace to forced labor and provided very little food to eat. At that time, I was assigned to work in a women’s unit which consisted of 30 members. The unit chief was named Oeu. In 1976, two KR militiamen named Rum and Khun came to arrest my husband by telling him that they needed workers to clear the jungle in order to grow corn. My husband had been a soldier in the Lon Nol regime. At the end of 1977, Chhil, our group’s leader, ordered the other villagers and me to harvest the crops at Bakou Commune. Once we arrived at Bakou, we were told to stay in a particular house and once inside, the militiamen began to tie our hands behind our backs. They used a long rope in order to make sure that we were in a straight line. We were told that if the rope was cut, we would be executed. I didn’t know the militiamen because they were from a different commune than mine. There were forty of us when we left the village, but when we arrived at Bakou Commune, we discovered that there were more people being kept there. Later, all of us were transferred to Sang Security Office. Once we arrived at Sang, we were put in a house containing more than 500 people. There, they ordered us to work in the rice fields. We were given only a small ration of watery gruel. Ten days after my arrival, Nang called me in order to get my personal background. I was warned to answer his questions or I would be beaten. Nang asked me, “Comrade! Do you wish to overthrow our revolutionary organization?� I answered “No!�, but he didn’t believe me and tied me up even tighter. Nang accused me of being a KGB spy. He continued by asking, “Have you ever trained to be a commando?� Fearful of being battered, this time I replied, “Yes!� and he didn’t beat me. Once I had fallen down from my house, sustaining an injury to my left arm which left a scar. I told them that the scar had resulted from a gunshot. I then stripped off my shirt to show them the scar. After seeing [the scar], they believed what I was telling them and released me. But prior to releasing me, they wanted me to denounce other people. They used political manipulation by saying, “Comrade! You should consider this; as others are happily staying at home with their family, you are pitifully stuck here in the mud. You should denounce the others who are involved in the KGB network.� They also said that some other villagers and I had secretly planned to escape because our commune didn’t have enough food to eat. I therefore forced myself to denounce three other people. One day when Angkar distributed a ration of porridge, I surreptitiously put water into the bowl. The water was near the porridge pot, which was around five meters away, but Ret, a KR soldier, hit me on my head with a stick, causing my head to become swollen. In Sang Security Office, they tortured us by beating us with a stick. After returning from work, as we entered the cell, they started beating all the prisoners with a stick. Some prisoners died of exhaustion. I still remember a few inmates’ names, in particular Pheap and Kol, who lived in the same village. Two months before the Vietnamese troops invaded the country, 100 other inmates and I were transferred and detained in Wat Ka-koh Security Office. Two months later, the Vietnamese troops liberated the country and I returned to my home village. When I arrived in my village, the military chief named Rum was still searching for me, but I managed to escape from him. Thus, I survived the regime. |
Date Completion of Form
កាលបរិច្ឆេទនៃការបំពេញបែបបទ
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20081003 | |
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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