Cambodia Killing Fields
Global Care Unlimited Youth Ambassadors Tour Cambodia With Clear Path International
In February 2005, Tenafly (New Jersey) Middle School teacher Mark Hyman and a Youth Delegation from Global Care Unlimited joined James and Terri Hathaway of Clear Path International on a tour of Cambodia. This journey was part of Global Care’s Cambodian Humanitarian Initiative, which seeks to educate American communities about the humanitarian needs of Cambodia and to provide support to alleviate these conditions. The Global Care delegation was particularly excited to visit the rehabilitation site of Clear Path and Cambodian Volunteers for Community Development, which Global Care Unlimited had helped fund in 2004. The students were thrilled to learn firsthand about the excellent rehabilitation programs offered for landm ... [Read More]
The Khmer Rouge Anniversary
This week marks the 30th anniversary of the seizure of power by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. It is estimated that up to 3 million Cambodians died in the killing fields. The United States joins the millions of Cambodians, Cambodian-Americans, and others in remembering the victims of this deplorable regime.The United States believes there must be accountability for these atrocities, and welcomed the agreement between the United Nations and Cambodia to establish the Khmer Rouge tribunal. For the United States to contribute to this process, we believe, as U.S. law stipulates, that the tribunal must meet internationally recognized standards of justice. As the formation of the tribunal moves forward, we will engage with the Government of Cambodia, the United Nations, and interested countries to achieve this goal. We will also con ... [Read More]
Evening in Cambodia
This region is also a reminder of a far more horrific and heart-breaking past. Battambang was one of the central battlefields in the struggle for control of the country and it was one of the bloodiest killing fields. The Khmer Rouge forced millions of Cambodians from their homes in cities and towns across the country and many ended up in Battambang, where they perished from hunger, disease, and hard labor, torture and summary execution. ... And so ultimately, the founders of Freedom Fields want what the citizens of Cambodia want, but also the people of Sri Lanka, of Afghanistan and Iraq. They want to see their children grow up without fear and in freedom. They want their children to enjoy a more peaceful and prosperous world. I am confident that this incredible motivation, the unquenchable desire to find a better life and brighter future, for ourselves and our progeny, will continue to link America to the rest of the world. ... [Read More]
Safe Passage Newsletter: Reinforcing Humanitarian Mine Action and Small Arms and Light Weapons Abatement, June 2005
The bracelets were included in an Academy Award gift bag given away at the Four Seasons Resort on Oscar night. Included in the beautifully presented velvet pouch was a personal note from Dina Eastwood, a Freedom Fields board member. The opportunity to take the Freedom Fields’ message to this important audience was greatly appreciated, but as the necklaces and bracelets so artfully represent, this grassroots battle will be won one landmine at a time. ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Text: United States Relays Sympathy for Khmer Rouge Victims
State Department Deputy spokesman Adam Ereli, remembering the estimated 3 million who died in the "killing fields," said the United States believes there must be accountability for these atrocities and welcomes the agreement between the United Nations and Cambodia to establish the Khmer Rouge tribunal. ... This week marks the 30th anniversary of the seizure of power by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. It is estimated that up to 3 million Cambodians died in the killing fields. The United States joins the millions of Cambodians, Cambodian-Americans, and others in remembering the victims of this deplorable regime. ... [Read More]
US Department Of State Post Report
Welaratna, Usha. Beyond the Killing Fields: Voices of Nine Cambodian Survivors in America. ... The central lowlands are characterized by seemingly endless, flat rice paddies, fields of reeds and tall grass, and fields of cultivated crops such as corn, tobacco, sesame, and tapioca. Sprinkled throughout are tall sugar palm trees and occasional wooded areas. Rice is grown on 90% of the cultivated land. However, only two-thirds of the land cultivated before 1970 is cultivated today, largely as a result of the danger of land mines and a lack of equipment and irrigation. In addition, Cambodian paddies produce about half of the yield of Thai or Vietnamese paddies. In recent years, large parts of Cambodia have experienced alternating droughts and floods which have further reduced the reliability of the Cambodian rice harvest. ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Text: McConnell Urges Cambodians to Participate in Elections
Elections half way around the world in a country best known for the killing fields of the 1970s would ordinarily warrant little attention by Washington or other foreign capitals. However, in the post-September 11 world such political exercises have heightened importance to America and the free world. ... [Read More]
USIS Washington File: MINE VICTIMS AID CONFERENCE RIVETS WORLDWIDE ATTENDEES
Another participant, Roland Joffe, directed the Hollywood film "The Killing Fields," which tells the story of the terrorist Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. Since making the film, he has helped set up the Cambodia Trust "which now runs three clinics in Cambodia and a prosthetic school where we've completed our second year of training prosthetists." ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Transcript: U.S. Seeks Special Session of U.N. Commission on Human Rights
After World War II, the world said "Never Again." Then came Cambodia where the "Killing Fields" were awash in blood. Ten years ago in Rwanda, evil reigned. In 100 days, 800,000 were killed in a rampage of ethnic killings. The world knew that terrible acts were being committed, yet the international community failed to act. Again, the world said, "Never Again." Then came ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Kosovo. ... Mr. Chairman, the report of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights mission to Chad from April 5 to 15, 2004, reports about the "possibility that civilian areas have been directly targeted." It discussed reports of indiscriminate killing of civilians and a "policy using rape and other serious forms of sexual violence as a weapon of war." The mission reports of "killings, rape, burning and looting of villages . . . (and) massive displacement." It says the Darfur is a "dire humanitarian crisis" and disappearances of "women, children, (and) the elderly." ... [Read More]
Interview on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace
SECRETARY RICE: As I said, I was a Soviet specialist. I think I know what the gulag was like, I think people know what the Cambodian killing fields were like, and I think people know what Nazi Germany did to 6 million Jews. I think to say that the comparisons are not apt is to understate the case considerably. ... MR. WALLACE: The Democrats' number two man in the Senate, Dick Durbin, created quite a stir this week when he compared U.S. treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo to Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, and the killing fields of Cambodia. Does it make it harder for you to do your job as you travel through the Mideast and push U.S. policy on human rights and democracy when a top American official says we are part of the problem? ... [Read More]
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