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...Phnom Penh courtroom, watching his own fate unfold. Some might say that the actions of an evil but long-gone Cambodian regime 30 years ago have little bearing on the world of today. But the Khmer Rouge’s brutal genocide, which eliminated about one-fourth of Cambodia??€™s population, deserves to be prosecuted accordingly. Even though Duch himself cannot possibly account for more than a small fraction of Khmer Rouge atrocities, it is important to recognize the regime’s crimes on an individual basis through international law. While the 10 years of disorganization between...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Long Overdue | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

...idea of Harvard in their neighborhood. Sengh Chea served in Vietnam as a medic for the U. S. Army from 1969 until 1975. Originally from Cambodia, he fled the country for the United States in 1981, after he and his wife were tortured in a prison by Cambodia??€™s Khmer Rouge regime. Six months after their arrival in the United States, Chea divorced his wife and never saw their two children again. One of them was gunned down in Charlestown, Mass., two years ago. “I don’t feel anything [about the move]. Anywhere...

Author: By Natalie I. Sherman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Growing Pains | 4/19/2006 | See Source »

During the last century, governments murdered millions more of their own innocent citizens in Japan, Cambodia, Turkey, Vietnam, Poland, Pakistan, Yugoslavia, North Korea and Mexico. Perhaps the purest expression of a bloody Marxist revolution took place during a few years in the 1970s, when Cambodia??€™s Khmer Rouge exterminated 2.5 million of their 7 million souls. Over one-third of the population was intentionally murdered—and this number excludes the 1.5 million more killed in war or rebellion...

Author: By Richard T. Halvorson, | Title: Predatory Politics | 4/29/2003 | See Source »

Yary Livan. Livan is the sole living master of Cambodia??€™s traditional ceramics and kiln building techniques, having miraculously avoided a death in Pol Pot’s Killing Fields. He has produced paintings, sculpture and pottery over his long career. Saturday at 9 a.m. Ceramics Program of Harvard’s Office for the Arts, 219 Western Ave., Allston...

Author: By Crimson Arts, | Title: HAPPENING - Jan. 10 to Jan. 17 | 1/10/2003 | See Source »

...floor of $10.25 per hour for all Harvard employees. The Crimson typesetting was expected to employ 20 Cambodian typisis working two six-hour shifts a day on 10 computers for six months. The typists earn $50 a month, better than the $45 minimum wage paid in the garment sector, Cambodia??€™s biggest industry...

Author: By Jessica E. Vascellaro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Launches New Website | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

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