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Second Quarter in 2011 Magazine of the Documentation Center of Cambodia Searching for THE TRUTH Farewell to a Man Who Sought Justice May 20: Day of Commemoration and Education «He [Reach Sambath] is the hero in my heart.» Special English Edition Second Quarter 2011 -- Youk Chhang Searching for the truth. TABLE OF CONTENTS Magazine of the Documentation Center of Cambodia Special English Edition, Second Quarter 2011 LETTERS DC-Cam Supports Transparent ........................................1 Loss of an Unforgettable Hero .........................................2 DOCUMENTATION Farewell to a Man who Sought Justice ......................3 Reach Sambath: Hero in My Heart .................................5 Mass Grave Near Pagoda ...................................................7 May 20: Day of Commemoration ...................................8 “Day of Remembrance” is for Victimized ...................10 HISTORY But Korn Childhood ..........................................................13 Teachers, Students and Parents Discuss ...................16 LEGAL Analysis of the Rules of Detention ...............................18 Reach Sambath The Negotiating History of the ECCC ..........................21 Copyright © PUBLIC DEBATE Documentation Center of Cambodia Cruel and Ironic Twist ...............................................................29 All rights reserved. Licensed by the Ministry of Information of Cambodia´s Curse ......................................................................31 the Royal Government of Cambodia, Hearing on the Appeal .....................................................38 Prakas No.0291 P.M99, 2 August 1999. AMILY RACING F T Photographs by I Was Defrocked by the Khmer Rouge.........................52 the Documentation Center of Cambodia My Mother During the Khmer Rouge .........................56 and Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum. Looking for Children from Galang Camp ...................60 Contributors: Ker Munthit, Phalla Chea, Sreinith S. Ten, Chamroeun S. Ly, Spephanie Wang, David Scheffer, Jeffrey S. Brand, Kok-Thay Eng, Um Piseth, Cheytoath Lim, Sayana Ser. Staff Writers: Bunthorn Som, Leakhena Tat, Sothida Sin. English Editor: Socheat Nhean and Anne Heindel. Editor-iin-CChief and Publisher: Youk Chhang. Graphic Designer: Sopheak Sim. Distributor: Sophat Morm. Email: [email protected], Homepage: www.dccam.org SEARCHING FOR THE TRUTH X LETTER LETTERS FROM YOUK CHHANG: DC-CCAM SUPPORTS TRANSPARENT AND INDEPENDENT CASE 003 AND CASE 004 INVESTIGATIONS The Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) We expect the ECCC to uphold the highest wishes to bring attention to recent developments in standards of judicial independence. All ECCC decisions the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia must be made independent of political pressure and (ECCC)'s third and fourth investigations (Cases 003 in accordance with a forthright interpretation of the and 004). A transparent and independent ECCC Court's rules. Moreover, we ask that the Court keep process is indispensable if Cambodians are to receive the Cambodian people fully informed about its work. a measure of justice for the atrocities they suffered at the hands of the Democratic Kampuchea regime. On April 29, the ECCC Co-Investigating Judges SEARCHING FOR FATHER-IN-LLAW (CIJs) cursorily announced the closure of their My name is Robert Tillman. My wife escaped investigation in Case 003. The public notice did not Cambodia at the onset of the Khmer Rouge. She list the crimes investigated even though persons who escaped with her Mother, two aunts & her grandfather. have suffered harm as a direct consequence must They escaped on foot from Battambang and apply within 15 days in order to participate as Civil travelled on foot to the Thai border where they lived Parties in future proceedings. The Public Affairs Office in refugee camps there and then in the Philippines has also yet to explain to Cambodians the meaning before making it to the US in 1982. and consequences of this development. Her father was well-established and relatively DC-Cam is dedicated to serving the twin goals of memory and justice with respect to the Democratic wealthy for the time and location and it is believed Kampuchea era. As the world's largest repository of (but not known for sure) that he was killed by the documents relating to the Khmer Rouge, we have Khmer Rouge. The best information that she has assisted and supported the ECCC accountability process indicates her father's name was Danh (Dahn?) Sithon from the beginning. The millions of Cambodian survivors (or Sithon Danh in American context). of the regime deserve to know what the ECCC is doing She has been unable to find any information on in their name, yet the Court has provided no meaningful him and has spent the last twenty years of her life information to the public about Cases 003 and 004 since wondering what happened to her father and wondering the CIJs began their investigations 20 months ago. if he is dead or alive. As a strong believer in the legitimacy of the ECCC I'm sure this is like a needle in a haystack, but if process, DC-Cam respects the confidentiality of the you have any means of getting any information on Court's investigations. At the same time, we remain this, I would forever be indebted to you and your committed to setting the historical record straight organization. regarding the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge, Please feel free to contact me at this email including those at issue in Cases 003 and 004, and to collecting material that may be used in legal proceedings. address: [email protected] DOCUMENTATION CENTER OF CAMBODIA (DC-CAM) X 1 SPECIAL ENGLISH EDITION, SECOND QUARTER 2011 LOSS OF AN UNFORGETTABLE HERO Cambodia Daily. I call it: "Reach Sambath: Hero in My Heart." I am breaking into tear now as I am typing this short letter, and I cannot stop regretting that I failed to have even one good meal with Sambath, despite many invitations from him for over a decade. I always kept my distance from him since he was a reporter and I was working on sensitive research to bring the Khmer Rouge to trial. I was afraid of failing in my research for a nation, but in the end I Reach Sambath showing a poster to villagers at ECCC failed to accept a true friend of the nation. I got a text message from Em Sokhym at the Now I am regretful. I went to his home on Khmer Rouge tribunal's public affairs section a few Saturday-sitting in silence for hours. I could not find a minutes after Reach Sambath, the court's spokesman, word to say to his wife and kids. I still cannot accept passed away on Wednesday night. that he is no longer with us. He is the hero in my heart. I could feel that she was crying. I sent a short ___________________________________ reply to her, and then I went to sleep pretending that Youk Chhang is the Director of the Documentation this was just a dream. Center of Cambodia and Editor-iin-CChief of Searching The next day, I told Deputy Director Dara for the Truth Magazine. Vanthan to gather all our staff to pay their respects for Sambath, I did not join them, and pretended I was SIGNIFICANCE OF GENDOCIDE EDUCATION busy at the office. News of Sambath's death was everywhere, but I pretended that it was a fraud, that it X Your questions empower and give meaning to was not true. those who have suffered. Asking your parents and When I read the Saturday-Sunday opinion piece grand-parents about the Khmer Rouge will further by Ker Munthit ("Amid Sadness, Memories of Reach there conciliation of the Cambodian nation. Sambath Bring Smile"), I broke into tears—like a snow- X Teaching children about the Khmer Rouge storm in winter. It is because I have known both of regime means teaching students the difference them so closely and dearly. between good and evil and how to forgive. Broken Neither ever lied to me or to the public they societies must know their past in order to rebuild served. I can find no more reason to lie to myself or to for their future. pretend that Sambath has not in fact already passed X Teaching children about the history of the away. But I just cannot accept it. Khmer Rouge regime, as well as stimulating dis- I asked Munthit to send his article to me by e-mail, cussion between children and their parents and and I want to tell the world that we still can laugh. grant-parents about what happened, are important to preventing genocide both in Cambodia and the But I cry. Munthit told me to give a new title to world at-large. his article since it had already been printed in The DOCUMENTATION CENTER OF CAMBODIA (DC-CAM) X 2 SEARCHING FOR THE TRUTH X DOCUMENTATION FAREWELL TO A MAN WHO SOUGHT JUSTICE Socheat Nhean If one thinks of the Khmer Rouge tribunal, killed. Soon afterward, he and his brother were Reach Sambath comes to mind. However, from now evacuated to Battambang without his mother and on, one will never hear his voice and see him on TV other siblings who were evacuated to another place. again. Reach Sambath died on May 11, 2011 at the He and his brother survived the Khmer Rouge regime, age of 47 from a severe stroke. Sambath was many but not his mother and other siblings. things, among them a professor in the department of After the Khmer Rouge regime collapsed in Media and Communication at the Royal University of 1979, Sambath, who was an orphan, moved from one Phnom Penh (RUPP), a chief of public affairs at the place to another to earn a living before coming to Khmer Rouge tribunal, a journalist who worked all his Phnom Penh where he then attended Phnom Don life to help improve the media in a country ravaged by Penh High School (now Sisowath High School). war and genocide, and a Khmer Rouge survivor who Sambath was smart and had an advantage sought justice for millions. He is survived by his wife, because he could speak English, according to Puy Kea, three children, and hundreds of media students who who also attended Phnom Don Penh School.
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