Cambodia genocide denial law open to abuse, say critics

RECIT - Fifty years ago, on April 17, 1975, Le Monde, L-Humanity, Liberation celebrated the arrival of revolutionary forces in the capital of Cambodia. Progressive L-intelligentsia acclaimed this bloody communist regime that was going to exterminate a quarter of its population.

Cambodia’s Haunted Present: 50 years After Khmer Rouge’s Rise, Its Murderous Legacy Looms Large

The regime may be long gone, but its legacy lives on in the institutions, behaviors, and fears that continue to shape Cambodia today.

The Forum des images, in Paris, offers, until the beginning of May, a program of exceptional richness, fifty years after the entrance of the Khmer Rouge in Phnom Penh.

Cambodia and Crimson Politics

O NE DAY in early May there was a long article in The New York Times about Cambodia, unusual because

50 years later, Khmer Rouge's murderous legacy lives on

On April 17, 1975, tanks rolled into the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, to cheering crowds who believed that the country’s long civil war might finally be over. But what followed was one of the worst genocides of the 20th century. During a brutal four-year rule, the communist-nationalist ideologues of the Khmer Rouge killed between 1.6 […] The post 50 years later, Khmer Rouge’s murderous legacy lives on appeared first on Asia Times.

Administrative court postpones deportation of genocide opponent Shane O'Brien but the Berlin4 remain in danger

The court’s ruling clearly shows how democratic rights are being trampled underfoot in the proceedings against O’Brien and the other three activists. However, it would be a false and dangerous illusion to believe that the risk of deportations has been averted with the Administrative Court decision or that this general attack on democratic rights can be fended off with the help of the courts in general.