Another cycle of GENTLE REMINDERS:
We are about to start our 6th page. Click on to see the new members of Kramanation spotted around the world. Rumors are spreading that within the year we may see George Clooney donning the krama. Let us wait and see…
Kramanation’s emissary to the European Union, Rafael Dochao-Moreno.
Please send in your personal remembrances. See new ones, deeply, eloquently remembered…
The beautiful Sophea Omnou of Great Britain pays tribute to her parents and 7 siblings killed by the Khmer Rouge.
A forum of education, for memorializing (think Berlin with all its memorials/information center combined into one), for recording personal testimonies (think Shoah Foundation), virtual library, traditional library and resource hub – all connected via information communication technology (thanks to the Vietnamese military who are almost finished laying the telecommunications infrastructure for all the villages of Cambodia – isn't this high TREASON in another country besides here, what Shinawatra was ousted for (and that, for only selling a fraction, minority shares of his telecommunications company to a foreign country)?? Currently, memorializing/education is concentrated in Phnom Penh but 85% of Cambodians live outside of the capital.
We need national leadership on this matter. First, detract the contract with the foreign private company owning Choeung Ek Killing Fields; this is a slap in the face of victims. SACRELIGIOUS !! Second, preserve as many of the skulls and bones and mass graves as possible as sites of memory, which could be the same as the sites for the Provincial Learning Centers.
The skulls at Wat Beoung Rai in one of 2 unprotected "cheddai". Among the 30,000 skulls including that of my mom, these are the only ones remaining: over the years, the villagers have been taking the skulls at liberty to grind them into traditional medicine. The bones are still in the mass graves in and around the pagoda and the nearby prison (above photo). On this visit with a great friend of Cambodia at the EU-Brussels and painter Danielle Dal Molin (4 Sept. 2010), I noticed that an "excellency" has spent @ US$3,000 to reconstruct this gaudy shiny "cheddai" with his name boldly, decidedly inscribed into this very public cheddai... This is the problem when memorializing is left into private hands with no community involvement and no national leadership at preservation.
1. Kramanation – Wear Krama Campaign:
We are about to start our 6th page. Click on to see the new members of Kramanation spotted around the world. Rumors are spreading that within the year we may see George Clooney donning the krama. Let us wait and see…
Kramanation’s emissary to the European Union, Rafael Dochao-Moreno.2. Tribute to Loved Ones Lost
Please send in your personal remembrances. See new ones, deeply, eloquently remembered…
The beautiful Sophea Omnou of Great Britain pays tribute to her parents and 7 siblings killed by the Khmer Rouge.3. Campaign for 24 Provincial Learning Centers to be furnished with the inventory of the ECCC:
A forum of education, for memorializing (think Berlin with all its memorials/information center combined into one), for recording personal testimonies (think Shoah Foundation), virtual library, traditional library and resource hub – all connected via information communication technology (thanks to the Vietnamese military who are almost finished laying the telecommunications infrastructure for all the villages of Cambodia – isn't this high TREASON in another country besides here, what Shinawatra was ousted for (and that, for only selling a fraction, minority shares of his telecommunications company to a foreign country)?? Currently, memorializing/education is concentrated in Phnom Penh but 85% of Cambodians live outside of the capital.
4. Related, Campaign to de-commercialize, de-personalize MEMORIALS.
We need national leadership on this matter. First, detract the contract with the foreign private company owning Choeung Ek Killing Fields; this is a slap in the face of victims. SACRELIGIOUS !! Second, preserve as many of the skulls and bones and mass graves as possible as sites of memory, which could be the same as the sites for the Provincial Learning Centers.
The skulls at Wat Beoung Rai in one of 2 unprotected "cheddai". Among the 30,000 skulls including that of my mom, these are the only ones remaining: over the years, the villagers have been taking the skulls at liberty to grind them into traditional medicine. The bones are still in the mass graves in and around the pagoda and the nearby prison (above photo). On this visit with a great friend of Cambodia at the EU-Brussels and painter Danielle Dal Molin (4 Sept. 2010), I noticed that an "excellency" has spent @ US$3,000 to reconstruct this gaudy shiny "cheddai" with his name boldly, decidedly inscribed into this very public cheddai... This is the problem when memorializing is left into private hands with no community involvement and no national leadership at preservation.
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