Civil Party Describes Suffering under an “Organized and Programed” Khmer Rouge System of Elimination

French civil party Denise Affonço concluded her testimony in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on December 13, 2012, with a powerful and emotional statement of suffering. Describing her physical and mental suffering, and the death of her daughter from starvation, the civil party recounted how the victims of the Khmer Rouge were dehumanized at the hands of a “famine [that] was organized and programed … a way for the system to eliminate us while feeling they had washed their hands of the problem.” She concluded by imploring the Court “to do its work, and [ensure] the people who committed all of these acts … be duly punished.”