Posted on 01/06/2017 10:59:30 AM PST by Gamecock
Consulting a Bible app on his smartphone, Norng Chhay pulled up his favorite passage from the book of Matthew.
“‘Do not judge others, and you will not be judged. For you will be treated as you treat others,’” the former Khmer Rouge soldier read aloud. Matthew 7 particularly resonates with him, he said, given his past as a member of one of the most notorious armies of modern times.
Recruited by the Khmer Rouge as a 15-year-old, Norng engaged daily in jungle warfare against Vietnam. More crucially, he had a role in the genocide carried out by Pol Pot’s short-lived Communist regime from 1975 to 1979, which left roughly 2 million Cambodians dead from starvation, overwork and mass executions.
fore the eight people were beaten to death, the black-clad cadres asked the crowd if they should be executed or allowed to live. “If we agreed that they should live, we should raise our hands. But nobody raised their hands because we were all afraid,” Morm recounted. “Even though it was my own blood relative, I did not raise my hand.”
Today, the Christian pastor — who runs a small church in her modest home, surrounded by fruit and vegetable crops — said she believes in practicing forgiveness toward Duch and the other leaders on trial at the tribunal.
“The Bible taught me that I need to learn to forgive, and that is also why God has forgiven me for my sins,” Morm said. “I don’t think I am a perfect person in my past, but I believe that one day, I could be with God when I pass away.”
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That's for sure...
And I would go so far as to say that those Vietnamese who were able to successfully escape to the United States have more loyalty to this country and what it has afforded them than half the population born and raised here.........
FWIW, my best friend's girlfriend is a Vietnamese refugee who escaped to the U.S. with her parents as a young girl. My nephew's best friend, who is now a doctor, was born in North Dakota to parents who were also Vietnamese refugees.................
Agreed
Paul is glad you weren't around in his day.
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