How are families of victims and perpetrators dealing with the shared history?

Pol Pot, born in Cambodia as Solath Sar, spent time in France and became a ... did not regard as “pure.” Over the next three years, they executed ... Apr 27, 2017 ... Nearly forty years after the Pol Pot time, Cambodia's landscape testifies to a tumultuous past, and hints at an uncertain environmental ... Jan 7, 2024 ... What lessons can modern Americans draw from the Cambodian nightmare? I'd suggest we show no tolerance toward grandiose social experiments of any ... He directed the mass killing of intellectuals, professional people, city dwellers—perhaps one-fifth of his own people. Pol Pot was born Saloth Sar on May 19, ... Apr 24, 2025 ... What do you know about Congress? Elaine Kompelien and 181 others. Secretary,” in Pol Pot Plans the Future: Confidential Leadership Documents from Democratic Kampuchea, 1976-1977, ed. David Chandler, et al. (New Haven: Yale ... And, why did Pol Pot, whose political career seemed all but over when he was ... "No one can do anything, unless the government gets its fee," he said. Cambodia did have assistance in setting up finan- cial institutions in ... At first Pol Pot had planned to intro- duce money, as indicated by printed ... May 2, 2023 ... Why did no one do anything?” Again answers flitted through my mind ... Pol Pot's center. The tragedy is that the former had largely ... Dec 27, 2020 ... ” However, this had nothing to do with the actual British sterling: “But Pol Pot found that trade — a necessity because Cambodia did not ...