Seen and heard on Ms. Theary C. Seng's Facebook accounts:
www.facebook.com/theary.c.seng
www.facebook.com/theary.c.seng
THE
END OF MEMORY: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World (Miroslav Volf):
"...exposing evil prevents or at least deters its perpetration. A
notable feature evil is that it seeks to cloak itself with a mantle of
goodness in order to hide its true nature; whenever possible, Satan will
appear as the angel of light precisely because it enhances his satanic
work."
Something
for us Cambodians to think about vis-a-vis the Vietnamese issue /
Vietnamization: "As victims seek to protect themselves, they are not
immune to becoming perpetrators... Emil M. Comoran has observed, the
great persecutors are often 'recruited among
the martyrs not quite beheaded'... Victims will often become
perpetrators precisely on account of their memories. It is because they
remember past victimization that they feel justified in committing
present violence. Or rather, it is because they remember their past
victimization that they justify as rightful self protection what to most
observers looks like violence born out of intolerance or even hatred.
So easily does the protective shield of memory morph into a sword of
violence." (Volf, 33)
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