@Da Long: thank you!

@Thorsten:I agree with your idea about who can provide full justice … A few NGOs and Cambodian individuals are working to heal the wounds…I hope it wont’ take another 3 decades

@Thanks Taufique. Thanks so so much for reading!

@Pineapple: I am keeping my fingers crossed for the teaching process…I interviewed the undersecretary of the Ministry of Education who said that teachers haven’t been trained to teach the book yet…some books were distributed in one high school, considered as a model of all the high schools in Cambodia… well, I hope more light will be shed on the regime…I wouldn’t want the kids to know less about what happened to their parents or grandfathers when they’re my age

@Sothy: thanks so much for your encouragement…this article was published on the ABC Australia Unleashed bong..but I didn’t have that ambition to get it published on the New York Times…too big a newspaper …

It was a very close and attentive reading on my side as you told us the story quite fluently.

You said “There are suggestions the Cambodian government is reticent to see the former Khmer Rouge in the dock for fears it will have a destabilizing influence on the country’s politics. Many former Khmer Rouge members are now senior business and political leaders.”

I think the key to the success (or failure) of this whole court lies in the highest political circles of the present Cambodian leadership. They are the ones who set the limits for this court. And these limits mean that full justice will never be done, as only a few (very old) figure heads are being tried.

Let’s hope that everyone else who got blood on his (or her) hands during the Khmer Rouge times, all the ordinary people who became willing executioners of the regime, has a conscience and makes personal steps to try to heal the wounds.