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Reinventing Ourselves After Genocide
Sophal Ear, PhDAssistant Professor
US Naval Postgraduate School7 May 2011
Concordia University, Montreal, CanadaThe views expressed do not reflect the views of the Department of Navy or the Department of Defense
What does reinvention mean and what does it mean to reinvent
ourselves?Indeed, how do we reinvent ourselves with memory and plural identities in
the aftermath of genocide?
Do we forgive and forget or do we endlessly wait for justice?
Five Reinventions in Five Acts
1. From Chinese ethnicity to Cambodian nationality
2. From Cambodians to fake Vietnamese3. From Vietnam to France4. From French lives to American lives5. From American to World citizen
I had six minutes to tell my story.
Today, I have a little more time to reflect on my familys and my own
reinvention.
MY WIFE, 8 MONTHS PREGNANT
MOM
BILL GATES
Act 1: From Chinese ethnicity to
Cambodian nationality
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There are no American combat troops in Cambodia. There are no American combat advisers in Cambodia. There will be no American combat troops or advisers in Cambodia. We will aid Cambodia. Cambodia is the Nixon doctrine in its purest form.
President Richard Nixon, November 1971
April 17 th , 1975
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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One day in late 1975, circa sunset
On the third day of our journey
towards Vietnam
1935 1975
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Act 2: From Cambodians to fake Vietnamese
A VIETNAMESE CITIZEN,A GOOD SAMARITAN
MOM
MEMY UNCLE AND AUNT
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Act 3: From Vietnam to France
A FRENCH CITIZEN,A GOOD SAMARITAN
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Act 4: From French lives to American lives
Act 5: From American to World citizen
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There is no more noble endeavourthan the fight for social and global justice, and for peace and development.
Mark Malloch Brown
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The Responsibility to Protect is a new
international security and human rights norm to address the international communitys failure to prevent and stop genocides, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.
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HOLOCAUST: 11 17 MILLION
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RWANDA: 800,000 1,000,000
85 87
BOSNIA: 200,000+
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DARFUR: 300,000+
But you need not look beyond Asia. Vietnam
North Korea
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Burma
Tibet
Cambodia
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2007
Police Beating Khmer Kampuchea Krom Monks
2010
The Case of Seng Kunnaka, United Nations World Food Programme
Security Guard
2008 2011
The Case of Boeung Kak Lake: 20,000 People Affected (3,000 to 4,200
families)
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2010
Khmer Rouge Tribunal
TUOL SLENGS DIRECTOR, DUCH, CONFESSED AT KHMER ROUGE TRIBUNAL IN CAMBODIA, 2009.
VERDICT: GUILTY
DEATHS: 12,273+
SENTENCE: 35 YEARS
(REDUCED TO 19 FOR TIME ALREADY SERVED)
APPEALING.
MADOFF: 150 YEARS
KILLED: 0; US$65 BILLION FRAUD
NOT APPEALING.
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My mom, Cam Youk LimJune 1936-October 2009
AbhayagiriBuddhist Monastery Universal Loving Kindness(2006)
IF WE HAVENT FORGIVEN, WE KEEP CREATING AN IDENTITY AROUND OUR PAIN, AND THAT IS WHAT IS REBORN. THAT IS WHAT SUFFERS.
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My mother reinvented herself time and time again to survive.
And she saved lives in the process.
Steven Sophal Ear, born March 2009
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Caitlyn Lim Ear, born March 2011