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Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius. See Amaury, Arnold.
Calling the Ghosts: A Story about Rape, War and Women. Produced in the 1996, this
extremely powerful and Emmy Award–winning documentary is the first-person account of
two women who became victims in a war (the 1992–1995 Bosnian war) where rape was
used as a weapon. Jadranka Cigelj and Nusreta Sivac, childhood friends and lawyers, were
imprisoned at the notorious Serb concentration camp of Omarska, where they, along with
hundreds of other Muslim and Croat women interned therein, were systematically raped
by their Serb overseers. Upon their release and as they fought to regain a modicum of stability
in their lives, they undertook a Herculean effort to have rape tried as a major war
crime by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
Cambodian Documentation Commission (CDC). Based in New York City, the CDC
was founded in 1982 by David Hawk, Dith Pran, Haing Ngor, Kassie Neou, Yang Sam,
and Arn Chorn. All but Hawk were survivors of the Cambodian genocide. The CDC’s
focus is fourfold: to document the genocide that was perpetrated in Cambodia between
1975 and 1979; to seek accountability (through either an international or a domestic tribunal)
for those responsible for planning and carrying out the genocide; to prevent the
Khmer Rouge from returning to power; and to promote human rights in Cambodia. In an
effort to carry out its mandate, CDC has worked along the following lines: presented petitions
and appeals to states that are parties to the UN Convention on the Prevention and
Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, member states of the United Nations, and Cambodian
political leaders; presented testimony to the UN Commission on Human Rights
as well as at U.S. congressional hearings; and produced translations of archives that document
repression of the Cambodian people under the Khmer Rouge. Hawk, an indefatigable
human rights activist, along with Hurst Hannum, also wrote “The Case against
Democratic Kampuchea,” a model legal brief for an Article IX complaint, and submitted
it to the International Court of Justice.
Cambodian Genocide. Between April 1975 and January 1979, the communist Khmer
Rouge, under the rule of Pol Pot (1925–1998), perpetrated a genocide in Cambodia that
resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million (and perhaps up to 2 million) Cambodian
citizens. The Khmer Rouge carried out a policy that aimed to totally erase all signs of French
colonial rule and restore Cambodia to what it viewed as the pristine condition that prevailed
before the foreigners had stamped their cultural traits on the land, its people, and