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Archive for the 'Khmer Rouge' Category

’30 Years for a Trial’ review

Monday, March 25th, 2013

’30 Years for a Trial’ reviewed by ‘The Cambodia Daily’. The ebook about Duch’s trial, the Khmer Rouge director of ‘S21′ where some 15,000 people were tortured and later killed, is available on iTunes at this link. The ebook, with texts by Robert Carmichael and photographs by John Vink gives insight on the backstage of [...]

The Mice Were Dancing…

Saturday, March 16th, 2013

So I turn my back for just a couple of days, working far from Phnom Penh on the ‘Three Rivers Dams’ project (see here) and then this happens: 1/ the authorities destroy the shacks of 12 Borei Keila families (see what they went through before that here). 2/ Mam Sonando goes free, albeit conditionally (see [...]

30 Years for a Trial is available…

Monday, March 11th, 2013

“To keep you is no benefit, to destroy you is no loss.”(Khmer Rouge slogan) I am happy to announce that ’30 Years for a Trial’, an e-book for the iPad by John Vink and Robert Carmichael is now available at the iBookstore on iTunes at this link. This e-book reports on the trial of Duch, [...]

It’s not really a game…

Sunday, November 18th, 2012

Seng Theary, a lawyer involved in a watchdog role for the judiciary process of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, tried to set up her ‘Poetic Justice Dart Game’ on the waterfront, a popular gathering place for the cambodian public on a sunday afternoon, where the public can throw darts at images of those responsible for the [...]

’30 Years for a Trial’

Sunday, October 28th, 2012

’30 Years for a Trial’, my iBook about the first Khmer Rouge Trial is almost finished. Fine-tuning the glossary, checking the captions, uploading the baby and you should be able to download it to your iPad within the next couple of weeks…

30 Years for a Trial coming…

Wednesday, October 10th, 2012

A couple more weeks and my eBook for the iPad about the Khmer Rouge trial, and more precisely the Duch trial as well as some of its its background should be available on iTunes. Meanwhile ‘Quest for Land’ for the iPad is still available for download on iTunes at 6.99€. There will be a free [...]

Dementia today. How about yesterday?

Friday, September 14th, 2012

Ieng Tirith is suffering from dementia. The Law is the Law: she will be released and not be tried at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (only Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary and Khieu Samphan are left to be tried). Was she suffering from dementia in 1975? See more on the Khmer Rouge tribunal here and here. Multimedia [...]

First and Last

Friday, August 24th, 2012

In a strange coincidence uniting the good side and the worst side of humanity, here are the first and the last photograph in my database taken on Kodak Tri-X. It seems Kodak wants to sell what they were doing best: their film department. Soon there might not be any Tri-X available. Is there a buyer [...]