Khmer Rouge Trials Bare Sexual Abuse

[Coventina]

Source: Inter Press Service (Italy)

PHNOM PENH, Sep 8 (IPS) - In a move that could break the silence around sexual violence under the Khmer Rouge, a 68 year-old transgender woman has became the first person to submit a complaint about gender-related abuse to the international tribunal during the group’s brief but bloody reign.

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Southevy told a press conference this week she had been accused of so-called ‘moral crimes’ and acting like a woman by the Khmer Rouge and incarcerated in several detention centres.

Weeping as she spoke, Southevy said that while she was in these prisons she was repeatedly sexually assaulted and gang raped by Khmer Rouge officials and cadres.

Although she cannot reveal all of the details, many of which are the subject of the official complaint to the tribunal, she was also forced to have her hair cut and wear men’s clothing.


Read more: http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43819

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Many more details in the article.

Southevy was also forced to marry a woman. Forced marriages were common during the KR.

[Mabus]

1. That's heart-breaking on so many levels

The abuse of transgendered and women. First they are raped then they're treated like it was their fault. Thanks for posting. It was a hard read but it is good that this information is coming out. Hopefully it will encourage more people to come forward.

[noonwitch]

4. The Khmer Rouge treated everyone that badly

Gay, straight, farmer, city resident, they tortured everyone.

[SOS]

2. Reagan's good friends...

On the Side of Pol Pot: U.S. Supports Khmer Rouge
by Jack Colhoun
Covert Action Quarterly magazine, Summer 1990

"For the last eleven years the United States government, in a covert operation born of cynicism and hypocrisy, has collaborated with the genocidal Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. More specifically, Washington has covertly aided and abetted the Pol Potists' guerrilla war to overthrow the Vietnamese backed government of Prime Minister Hun Sen, which replaced the Khmer Rouge regime."

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/US_ThirdWorld/US_PolPot.html

[Baby Snooks]

3. You mean Bush's good friends...

People tend to overlook the influence of Bush on Reagan. Anyone who doubts the power of a "grey eminence" need only look at Cheney.

[SOS]

5. Indeed

Bush 41 recognized the Khmer Rouge as the legitimate government of Cambodia as well.
Hu Sen left office in 1990.