The Fashion Industry’s Perfect Storm: Collapsing Workers and Hyperactive Buyers Wednesday, 04 April 2012 10:23By Anne Elizabeth Moore Sina Phin, a garment worker, right, ironing shirts at the New Island factory in outlying Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in April 2005. (Photo: Michael Nagle / The New York Times) link http://truth-out.org/news/item/8307-the-fashion-industrys-perfect-storm-collapsing-workers-and-hyperactive-buyers About a year ago, record numbers of [...]
The false monolith of political Islam By Brendan P O’Reilly Speaking Freely is an Asia Times Online feature that allows guest writers to have their say. Please click here if you are interested in contributing. One who knows the enemy and knows himself will not be in danger in a hundred battles. One [...]
REUTERS/Nhet Sokheng/ECCC/Handout Former Khmer Rouge leader “Brother Number Two” Nuon Chea (C) sits in the court room at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. By Michelle Fitzpatrick PHNOM PENH — The Khmer Rouge were not “bad people”, the regime’s highest-ranking surviving member said Monday as Cambodia’s [...]
Despite five years of process at a cost of nearly £100m, only one defendant – prison warden Kaing Guek Eav, alias as Duch – has been convicted. Photograph: Reuters Khmer Rouge trial is failing Cambodian victims of Pol Pot’s regime UN’s reputation also at stake amid interference and delays at court where its judges sit [...]
Regime’s ‘chief ideologue,’ foreign minister, and head of state face charges of crimes against humanity [Reuters] A top Khmer Rouge leader on trial at Cambodia’s war crimes court has been confronted with dramatic footage in which he defends the regime’s bloody purges and calls the victims “traitors”. Prosecutors told the court on Tuesday that the clip from the [...]
It is interesting to note the outrage expressed at the Khmer Rouge on trial at the moment. There is no doubt that what they did in Cambodia was simply despicable and deserves the roundest condemnation. Pol Pot and Year Zero were evil manifestations of authoritarianism at its worst. The fact that something like [...]
. Khmer Rouge leaders Nuon Chea, Khieu Samphan and Ieng Sary appear before a court for genocide [Kate Mayberry] The brutality of a regime during which about two million Cambodians died will be on display once again on Monday as the Extraordinary Chamber of the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) starts its second Khmer Rouge trial. The UN-backed [...]
Tribunal judges for Cambodia‘s communist Khmer Rouge war crimes victims have come under fire [EPA] Cambodia war crimes tribunal judge quits Senior official responsible for indictments at UN-backed tribunal resigns, citing government interference. A senior judge investigating war crimes under Cambodia’s former Khmer Rouge regime has resigned, citing government interference. Siegfried Blunk, who [...]
Im Chaem, right, a 67-year-old former Khmer Rouge provincial secretary, at a school event in Anlong Veng, Cambodia, on June 21, 2010 Heng Sinith / AP COMMENT PRINT EMAIL REPRINTS SHARE At first blush, it seems like a nourishing gift. The Phnom Srok reservoir in northwest Cambodia spreads nearly as far as the eye [...]
Te 1968 Tet Offensive opened a ‘credibility gap’ as Americans began to distrust what they were told about the Vietnam War by officially sanctioned media sources [GALLO/GETTY] On January 31, 1968, the combined forces of North Vietnam (DRV or Democratic Force of Vietnam) and the NLF (National Liberation Front) launched a spectacular series of [...]
WHAT HENRY SAW On China By Henry Kissinger (Allen Lane/The Penguin Press 586pp £30) Zhou and Kissinger: help yourself Henry Kissinger, sometime Harvard professor, President Nixon‘s Secretary of State, and 1973 Nobel Peace Prize winner, says he has been to China ‘more than fifty times’. Of these visits, the most famous was his secret trip [...]
Death Doctrine by John Tirman July 2011 Afghanistan, Nicaragua, and Angola were the three rings of the Reagan Doctrine, the war by proxy, and none turned out well. The former president’s support of despots and violent insurgencies guaranteed a future of errant, and deadly, U.S. foreign policy. Photograph via Flickr and Marion Doss, by Michael Evans, [...]
Khmer Rouge leaders go on trial in Cambodia Former Khmer Rouge leader ‘Brother Number Two‘ Nuon Chea (centre) in the courtroom at the ECCC in Phnom Penh. Photograph: Mark Peters/AFP/Getty Images The United Nations-backed trial of the four most senior surviving members of Cambodia‘s murderous Khmer Rouge regime has begun, three decades after its “year zero” revolution [...]
TORTURE: FINDING OUR MORAL COMPASS Print Share A singe cell unit taken at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Under Khmer Rouge, prisons and interrogation centers were euphemistically referred to as “Security Centers.” (Courtesy Alan Chan via flickr) By Morris Davis The imagery depicting the mutilated body of 13-year old Hamza Ali [...]
