Roughly two million Cambodians perished in the 1975-79 Cambodian genocide. Thousands of foreigners died too. Among these were a Canadian, a New Zealander and an Englishmen, two Australians and four Americans — all of them captured while sailing yachts through the Gulf of Thailand. The intellectual authors of the Cambodian genocide now face justice at an international tribunal in Phnom Penh. For the family and friends of the genocide’s forgotten victims, it’s been a long time coming.
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Israeli activist Jeff Halper came to Winnipeg at the end of January to speak about the current situation in Palestine-Israel, and about the work of the Israel Committee Against House Demolitions. Temperatures outside plunged to almost minus forty. Inside the atmosphere was congenial — but Jeff had disturbing news to share.
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Thirty years have come and gone since the end of the American War – as the Vietnamese call it – and its toxic aftermath lingers on. Between 1961 and the early 1970s, the U.S. drenched Vietnam with almost a hundred million liters of Agent Orange and other herbicides. It wasn’t just rainforests and mangroves that suffered … and the poison continues its dirty work.
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An Interview with 1989 Right Livelihood Award winner Melaku Worede.
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