Vivid Civil Party Testimony: How Khmer Rouge Promises of “Paradise” Resulted in “Hell”
“At every stage along the way, we were being promised paradise,” but “it was the beginning of hell,” civil party Denise Affonço powerfully testified in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Wednesday, December 12, 2012. Testifying via video-link from France, Ms. Affonço, a French national of French-Vietnamese heritage, survived the evacuation of Phnom Penh and the Democratic Kampuchea (DK) period, but witnessed the vast majority of her family members die during that time. In the first day of her testimony, Ms. Affonço testified on issues including the treatment of foreign nationals during the DK period and desperate conditions in Khmer Rouge cooperatives…
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