“It is a sentiment of sufferings and passionate hatred of the Pol Pot genocidal regime,” Sar Kapon, representative of professors, teachers, and intellectuals of the People’s Republic of Kampuchea said on September 12, 1983 in a Phnom Penh’s conference. Even though it was made many years ago, the essence could still wake Cambodian children’s mind to remember a Killing Field regime.
Sar Kapon recalled at the time that mass graves were scattered on every part of Cambodian land and that they were the historical scrolls which could describe the “more than atrocious” crimes of the Khmer Rouge. Sar Kapon said that the mass graves were the memorials used to keep the bones of ruthlessly killed victims and teachers.
“From August 15 to August 18, 1983 the People’s Republic of Kampuchea’s National Assembly adopted a note on the number of death, the disabled, orphans, and demolished school buildings. They claimed that the statistics was scientific. Indeed, the real events happening during the genocidal regime we’ve gone through make educationalists, writers, virtuous persons, sociologists, and teachers shocked as such things had never happened before. No books have ever been written about such events. No artists who could visualize such brutalities,” he said in the conference.
“Monks and religion experts have never seen any chapter in Tripitika, Bible, or Koran talking about the sufferings equal to those in the genocidal regime. The weak economy, separated families, indoctrination, culture persecution, false politics, and unfaithfulness were typical scenes of the Khmer Rouge regime,” he said.
“All teachers! We have a common wisdom which supports human right, freedom, humanity, justice, society, and peace. We can’t stand when our children became ruthless murderers and spies and when our people died of overwork, starvation, and torture. The teenage militants called themselves “Koun Koun” (a term a child use to address himself) and others “Nhoam” (term monks use to address people), but they took Nhoams for torture,” Kapon said, adding that all teachers had gone through the ruthless acts. “Those teachers who had not been killed were living a life of slave in a body which had no “spirit” and only lived prior to the death,” he recalled.
“Any teacher’s resistance was traced down and destroyed. Young female “crows and vultures” (Khmer Rouge militants) were vicious, referring themselves as knowledgeable people who could discipline others while they were actually amateurish. They especially looked down on teachers, saying that there were no certificates anymore, but real actions. If there were no actions, the teachers would be made “fertilizer”,” he said.
“Allow me to apologize for not having enough pages to describe everything in details, but only the mass graves,” Sar Kapon added eventually. This is a remark by then senior educational official Sar Kapon.
Source: Khmer Rouge Trial Web Portal
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