Elie Wiesel and Cambodia

Re: Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at 87

Reading about life of Elie Wiesel in Khmer, Courage Without Borders training I did for monks and teachers in 2012 in Kampong Thom, about a mile away where Pol Pot used to live and where his relatives still live.

Wat Indrisanvarak where 140+ monks reside and study in Kampong Thom -- Training on COURAGE curriculum (here, Elie Wiesel lesson on Genocide) of CIVICUS: Center for Cambodian Civic Education, a partner of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights on the Speak Truth To Power project, this Sunday in Kampong Thom, for some 90 monks and some 80 teachers.

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"The Pol Pot regime had ended. But the worse was still not over The new nightmare was famine. It seemed impossible in a land of plenty... But in the wake of Vietnam's military takeover, hundreds of thousands died during two long years of famine." http://www.paulmccartney.com/live/tour-archives/concert-for-the-people-of-kampuchea

On Dec 26-29, 1979 [by now, Cambodia under one full year of Vietnamese occupation], the musician Paul McCartney and Kurt Waldheim, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, organized a four-night benefit, Concerts for the People of Kampuchea, to raise funds for UNICEF and UNHCR. The concert featured Paul McCartney and Wings, The Who, Queen, Elvis Costello, The Pretenders, The Clash and other artists at the Hammersmith Odeon in London, England. ...

MARCH FOR SURVIVAL


Meanwhile, the refugee crisis at the border became a cause célèbre among many activists, artists and academics from the West, many of whom visited the border camps. In early February, for example, a group of aid workers, peace activists and celebrities, including Joan Baez and Elie Wiesel, led a “March for Survival” at the border town of Aranyaprathet, demanding an end to what they perceived was the deliberate obstruction of food distribution by the Vietnamese. Using a bullhorn the group offered 20 truckloads of food and medicine to the Vietnamese and Cambodian soldiers on the other side of the border.  http://truth2power-media.blogspot.com/2016/01/vietnamization-occupation-2-yr-famine.html

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