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Cambodia's Friday Women are fighting for justice, with their husbands and sons in jail ahead of a 'democratic charade' election.
Cambodia’s only credible opposition party disqualified from running in elections.
Cambodia’s strongman faces an unlosable election. But will he still run the country?
Cambodian Australians ask the government not to recognise ‘sham’ Cambodian elections.
Cambodian leader's son Hun Manet set to take reins of power — but will he bring change?
ABC News
#Kampuchea#Democratic Kampuchea#Kampuchea elections#Cambodia#Cambodia’s Friday Women#Cambodia elections#Hun Sen#Hun Manet
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Cambodia 2024. Official Holidays
Here are the official holidays in Cambodia for 2024. Well worth checking if you’re planning a journey here.
1 January (Monday) – International New Year’s Day
7 January (Sunday) – Victory Day over Genocide
8 March (Friday) – International Women’s Day
13, 14, 15, 16 April (Saturday-Tuesday)– Khmer New Year
1 May (Wednesday) – International Labour Day
14 May (Tuesday) – His Majesty Preah Bat…
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Holidays 10.13
Holidays
Astronomy Day
Azerbaijani Railway Day
Blame Someone Else Day
Bonn Phchum Ben (Ancestors’ Day; Cambodia)
Chuuk (Teachers’ Appreciation Day; Micronesia)
Clean the Crumbs Out of the Broiler Oven Day
Cold Turkey Day
Dashain Festival (Nepal)
Dia del Respeto a la Diversidad Cultural (Argentina)
Doi Taikomatsuri (Japan) [13-15]
Durga Puja (a.k.a. Dasain (Sikkim, India)
Dussehra (a.k.a. Durga Ashtami; Parts of India)
English Language Day (UK)
Festival of Unmediated Play
Geologic Map Day
Ghatasthapana (Nepal)
Global Fertilizer Day
Good Samaritan Day
The Great Memorial Day (Thailand)
International Cassette Store Day
International Civility for the Girl Child Day
International Day for Failure (a.k.a. National Failure Day)
International Day For Natural Disaster Reduction (UN)
international Day of Education in Prison
International Plain Language Day
International Skeptics Day
International Suit Up Day
John Peel Day
Karva Chat (Himachal Pradesh, India) [Women’s Festival Only]
King Bhumibol Adulyadej The Great Memorial Day (Thailand)
Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day
Modern Mythology Day
National Chess Day
National Erection Day
National Guinea Pig Day (Peru)
National Herpes Awareness Day (Australia)
National Motorcycle Ride Day
National No Excuse Day
National ‘That’s What She Said’ Day
National Transfer Money to Your Son Day
Navy Establishment Day
No Bra Day
Oilfield Prayer Day (Oklahoma)
Paramedics’ Day (Poland)
Peach Day (French Republic)
Prince Louis Rwagasore Day (Burundi)
Railway Day (Azerbaijan)
Rwagasore Day (Burundi)
Silly Sayings Day
Swiftie Day
Templars Day
Train Your Brain Day
Treat Yo’ Self Day
Wan Tamruat (a.k.a. National Police Day; Thailand)
White House Day
Witches’ Festival (Elder Scrolls)
World Bank Action Day
World Cage Free Day
World Thrombosis Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Friday the Firkenteenth (Grey Lodge, Pennsylvania)
National M&M Day
National Peanut Day
National Pumpkin Day
Yorkshire Pudding Day
2nd Friday in October
Durin’s Day (The Hobbit) [When Last Moon of Autumn & 1st Sun of Winter Appears in Sky Together]
Forest School Day (UK) [2nd Friday]
International Children’s Palliative Care Day [2nd Friday]
International Foster Carer Appreciation Day [2nd Friday]
National Boss Day [Weekday closest to 10.15]
National Haunted House Day [2nd Friday]
Vet Nurse Day [2nd Friday]
World Day Against the Death Penalty [2nd Friday]
World Day of Botanical Gardens [2nd Friday]
World Egg Day [2nd Friday]
Feast Days
Aequinoctium Autumnale VI (Pagan)
Alan Turing Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Alexandrina of Balasar (Christian; Blessed)
Allan Ramsay (Artology)
Arrabiata Sauce Day (Pastafarian)
Campanella (Positivist; Saint)
Colman (Christian; Saint)
Daniel and companions, of Ceuta (Christian; Saints)
Edward the Confessor (Translation of the Relics Day)
Fautus, Januarius, and Martialis (Christian; Martyrs)
Fontanalia (a.k.a. Fontus; Old Roman God of Wells & Springs)
Gerald of Aurillac (Christian; Saint)
Maddalena Panattieri (Dominican Order of Preachers; Christian; Blessed)
Mariotto Albertinelli (Artology)
Miracle of the Sun
Moley the Mole (Muppetism)
Our Lady of Fatima (Roman Catholic)
Seven Friar Minors (Christian; Martyrs in Morocco)
Theophilus of Antioch (Christian; Saint)
Very Saucey Day (Pastafarian)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]
Unlucky Day (EU, US) [Friday the 13th] (2 of 2 for 2023)
Unlucky Day (Canada, Germany, Ireland, UK, US) [Friday the 13th]
Premieres
All About Eve (Film; 1950)
The Babysitter (Film; 2017)
Badlands (Film; 1973)
Batman: Death in the Family (WB Animated Film; 2020)
A Bear Called Paddington, by Michael Bond (Children’s Book; 1958)
Bee at the Beach (Disney Cartoon; 1950)
Billy Elliot (Film; 2000)
Code of the Samurai: A Modern Translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu of Taira Shigesuke, by Daidōji Yūzan (History Book; 1943)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (Film; 1989)
Fat Bottomed Girls/Bicycle Race, by Queen (Songs; 1978)
Fly with von Drake (Disney Animated TV Special; 1963)
The Foreigner (Film; 2017)
Goodbye Christopher Robin (Film; 2017)
Harvey (Film; 1950)
The House of Mirth (Film; 2000)
Jane the Virgin (TV Series; 2014)
Linda McCartney’s Sixties: Portrait of an Era, by Linda McCartney (Book; 1992)
Look Who’s Talking (Film; 1989)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (Animated Film; 1993)
…Nothing Like the Sun, by Sting (Album; 1987)
Riley’s First Date? (Pixar Cartoon; 2015)
The Rum Diary (Film; 2011)
The Scarlet Letter (Film; 1995)
The Seventh Seal (Film; 1958)
Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It), by Beyoncé (Song; 2008)
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (Concert Film; 2023)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, by Edward Albee (Play; 1962)
Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys (Novel; 1966)
Yankee Dood It (WB MM Cartoon; 1956)
, by Prince (Album; 1992)
Today’s Name Days
Eduard, Gerald (Austria)
Bogoljub, Eduard, Romul, Teofil (Croatia)
Renáta (Czech Republic)
Angelus (Denmark)
Ebba, Ebe, Epp (Estonia)
Taija, Taina, Tanja (Finland)
Géraud (France)
Andre, Eduard, Koloman (Germany)
Agathoniki, Chrysi, Florentia, Florentios, Karpos (Greece)
Ede, Kálmán (Hungary)
Benedetto, Edoardo (Italy)
Irma, Mirga (Latvia)
Eduardas, Edvardas, Mintaras, Nortautė, Venancijus (Lithuania)
Tarjei, Terje, Torgeir (Norway)
Daniel, Edward, Gerald, Geraldyna, Maurycy, Mikołaj, Siemisław, Teofil (Poland)
Agatodor, Agatonica, Andrei, Carp, Papil (Romania)
Koloman (Slovakia)
Eduardo, Fausto (Spain)
Berit, Birgit (Sweden)
Eddie, Eddy, Eduardo, Edward, Edwardine, Ned (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 286 of 2024; 79 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 5 of week 41 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Gort (Ivy) [Day 11 of 28]
Chinese: Month 8 (Xin-You), Day 29 (Jia-Chen)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 28 Tishri 5784
Islamic: 28 Rabi I 1445
J Cal: 16 Shù; Twosday [16 of 30]
Julian: 30 September 2023
Moon: 1%: Waning Crescent
Positivist: 6 Descartes (11th Month) [Campanella]
Runic Half Month: Wyn (Joy) [Day 2 of 15]
Season: Autumn (Day 20 of 89)
Zodiac: Libra (Day 20 of 30)
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Holidays 10.13
Holidays
Astronomy Day
Azerbaijani Railway Day
Blame Someone Else Day
Bonn Phchum Ben (Ancestors’ Day; Cambodia)
Chuuk (Teachers’ Appreciation Day; Micronesia)
Clean the Crumbs Out of the Broiler Oven Day
Cold Turkey Day
Dashain Festival (Nepal)
Dia del Respeto a la Diversidad Cultural (Argentina)
Doi Taikomatsuri (Japan) [13-15]
Durga Puja (a.k.a. Dasain (Sikkim, India)
Dussehra (a.k.a. Durga Ashtami; Parts of India)
English Language Day (UK)
Festival of Unmediated Play
Geologic Map Day
Ghatasthapana (Nepal)
Global Fertilizer Day
Good Samaritan Day
The Great Memorial Day (Thailand)
International Cassette Store Day
International Civility for the Girl Child Day
International Day for Failure (a.k.a. National Failure Day)
International Day For Natural Disaster Reduction (UN)
international Day of Education in Prison
International Plain Language Day
International Skeptics Day
International Suit Up Day
John Peel Day
Karva Chat (Himachal Pradesh, India) [Women’s Festival Only]
King Bhumibol Adulyadej The Great Memorial Day (Thailand)
Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day
Modern Mythology Day
National Chess Day
National Erection Day
National Guinea Pig Day (Peru)
National Herpes Awareness Day (Australia)
National Motorcycle Ride Day
National No Excuse Day
National ‘That’s What She Said’ Day
National Transfer Money to Your Son Day
Navy Establishment Day
No Bra Day
Oilfield Prayer Day (Oklahoma)
Paramedics’ Day (Poland)
Peach Day (French Republic)
Prince Louis Rwagasore Day (Burundi)
Railway Day (Azerbaijan)
Rwagasore Day (Burundi)
Silly Sayings Day
Swiftie Day
Templars Day
Train Your Brain Day
Treat Yo’ Self Day
Wan Tamruat (a.k.a. National Police Day; Thailand)
White House Day
Witches’ Festival (Elder Scrolls)
World Bank Action Day
World Cage Free Day
World Thrombosis Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Friday the Firkenteenth (Grey Lodge, Pennsylvania)
National M&M Day
National Peanut Day
National Pumpkin Day
Yorkshire Pudding Day
2nd Friday in October
Durin’s Day (The Hobbit) [When Last Moon of Autumn & 1st Sun of Winter Appears in Sky Together]
Forest School Day (UK) [2nd Friday]
International Children’s Palliative Care Day [2nd Friday]
International Foster Carer Appreciation Day [2nd Friday]
National Boss Day [Weekday closest to 10.15]
National Haunted House Day [2nd Friday]
Vet Nurse Day [2nd Friday]
World Day Against the Death Penalty [2nd Friday]
World Day of Botanical Gardens [2nd Friday]
World Egg Day [2nd Friday]
Feast Days
Aequinoctium Autumnale VI (Pagan)
Alan Turing Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Alexandrina of Balasar (Christian; Blessed)
Allan Ramsay (Artology)
Arrabiata Sauce Day (Pastafarian)
Campanella (Positivist; Saint)
Colman (Christian; Saint)
Daniel and companions, of Ceuta (Christian; Saints)
Edward the Confessor (Translation of the Relics Day)
Fautus, Januarius, and Martialis (Christian; Martyrs)
Fontanalia (a.k.a. Fontus; Old Roman God of Wells & Springs)
Gerald of Aurillac (Christian; Saint)
Maddalena Panattieri (Dominican Order of Preachers; Christian; Blessed)
Mariotto Albertinelli (Artology)
Miracle of the Sun
Moley the Mole (Muppetism)
Our Lady of Fatima (Roman Catholic)
Seven Friar Minors (Christian; Martyrs in Morocco)
Theophilus of Antioch (Christian; Saint)
Very Saucey Day (Pastafarian)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]
Unlucky Day (EU, US) [Friday the 13th] (2 of 2 for 2023)
Unlucky Day (Canada, Germany, Ireland, UK, US) [Friday the 13th]
Premieres
All About Eve (Film; 1950)
The Babysitter (Film; 2017)
Badlands (Film; 1973)
Batman: Death in the Family (WB Animated Film; 2020)
A Bear Called Paddington, by Michael Bond (Children’s Book; 1958)
Bee at the Beach (Disney Cartoon; 1950)
Billy Elliot (Film; 2000)
Code of the Samurai: A Modern Translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu of Taira Shigesuke, by Daidōji Yūzan (History Book; 1943)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (Film; 1989)
Fat Bottomed Girls/Bicycle Race, by Queen (Songs; 1978)
Fly with von Drake (Disney Animated TV Special; 1963)
The Foreigner (Film; 2017)
Goodbye Christopher Robin (Film; 2017)
Harvey (Film; 1950)
The House of Mirth (Film; 2000)
Jane the Virgin (TV Series; 2014)
Linda McCartney’s Sixties: Portrait of an Era, by Linda McCartney (Book; 1992)
Look Who’s Talking (Film; 1989)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (Animated Film; 1993)
…Nothing Like the Sun, by Sting (Album; 1987)
Riley’s First Date? (Pixar Cartoon; 2015)
The Rum Diary (Film; 2011)
The Scarlet Letter (Film; 1995)
The Seventh Seal (Film; 1958)
Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It), by Beyoncé (Song; 2008)
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (Concert Film; 2023)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, by Edward Albee (Play; 1962)
Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys (Novel; 1966)
Yankee Dood It (WB MM Cartoon; 1956)
, by Prince (Album; 1992)
Today’s Name Days
Eduard, Gerald (Austria)
Bogoljub, Eduard, Romul, Teofil (Croatia)
Renáta (Czech Republic)
Angelus (Denmark)
Ebba, Ebe, Epp (Estonia)
Taija, Taina, Tanja (Finland)
Géraud (France)
Andre, Eduard, Koloman (Germany)
Agathoniki, Chrysi, Florentia, Florentios, Karpos (Greece)
Ede, Kálmán (Hungary)
Benedetto, Edoardo (Italy)
Irma, Mirga (Latvia)
Eduardas, Edvardas, Mintaras, Nortautė, Venancijus (Lithuania)
Tarjei, Terje, Torgeir (Norway)
Daniel, Edward, Gerald, Geraldyna, Maurycy, Mikołaj, Siemisław, Teofil (Poland)
Agatodor, Agatonica, Andrei, Carp, Papil (Romania)
Koloman (Slovakia)
Eduardo, Fausto (Spain)
Berit, Birgit (Sweden)
Eddie, Eddy, Eduardo, Edward, Edwardine, Ned (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 286 of 2024; 79 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 5 of week 41 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Gort (Ivy) [Day 11 of 28]
Chinese: Month 8 (Xin-You), Day 29 (Jia-Chen)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 28 Tishri 5784
Islamic: 28 Rabi I 1445
J Cal: 16 Shù; Twosday [16 of 30]
Julian: 30 September 2023
Moon: 1%: Waning Crescent
Positivist: 6 Descartes (11th Month) [Campanella]
Runic Half Month: Wyn (Joy) [Day 2 of 15]
Season: Autumn (Day 20 of 89)
Zodiac: Libra (Day 20 of 30)
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SEA Games 2023: PH men's beach volleyball team improves to 2-0, women's squad falls
Photo from PNVF
MANILA, Philippines—The Philippine beach volleyball teams fashioned out contrasting victories in the 32nd Southeast Asian Games on Friday at Otres Beach in Preah Sihanouk.
The men’s team edged Cambodia in three matches to seize a 2-0 record in Group A while the women’s squad debuted with a loss to Vietnam in the golden match.
Jude Garcia and James Buytrago outlasted home bets Oem…
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Southeast Asian Games 2023
BY- MELANIE J. REAL
The 2023 Southeast Asian Games, also known as the 32nd SEA Games, is scheduled
to be held in Cambodia. It is a multi-sport event that brings together athletes from
countries in Southeast Asia to compete in various sports. The exact dates and list of
sports for the 2023 SEA Games have been announced on May 5-17 2023 and will be
held in Phnom Penh Cambodia, it is expected to include many popular sports such as
athletics, swimming, football, and basketball, as well as traditional Southeast Asian
sports. The announcement was made at the Southeast Asian Games Federation
Council meeting in Singapore, in conjunction with the 2015 Southeast Asian Games, by
the President of the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia, Thong Khon.
The Philippines was originally scheduled to host the game, but was pushed forward to
2019 after Brunei withdrew to host the event. This is the first time that Cambodia hosts
the games, as the 3rd Southeast Asian Peninsular Games in 1965 was canceled due to
the political situations in the country at the time. The event was planned to feature 40
sports. The final number is 37 sports. All 11 members of the Southeast Asian Games
Federation (SEAGF) are expected to take part in the 2023 SEA GAMES. There's are
the list of all the participating and delegates: Brunei (65), Cambodia (896) hosts, East
Timor (90), Indonesia (599), Laos (576), Malaysia (677), Myanmar (341), Philippines
(860), Singapore (558), Thailand (846), and last is the Vietnam (702).
Allyssa Valdez was tapped as the Philippines flag bearer during the opening ceremony
of the 32nd Southeast Asian Games last Friday at the 60,000 seat Morodok Techo
Stadium in Phnom Penh Cambodia. Valdez will lead an all-female Philipiine delegation
during the parade of nations. The POC President Abraham “Bambol” Tolentino said that
Allyssa best fits our goal of an almost all female delegation in the opening ceremony.
“She’s not only the face of the Philippines volleyball but Philippines sports as well”.
Carrying the country’s colors is nothing new for Valdez, who was also the flag bearer
back in the 2015 Games held in Singapore. “It’s such an honor to be the flag bearer for
this year’s SEA games. It’s a big responsibility but I'm grateful for the trust given to me
once again” said Valdez, the captain of the Philippines women’s volleyball team.
There are some of the players in the Philippines who win with a gold, silver, and bronze
medal: Ej Obiena wins third straight gold, he clenched his third gold in the men’s pole
vault at the SEA GAMES with a new meet record of 5.65m. He beat the previous record
of 5.46m he set in Vietnam last year. Xiandi Chua delivers Philippines swimming first
gold medal, Xiandi won the country’s first swimming gold in record breaking fashion
after the women’s 200m backstroke (2:13.20). Chua broke the SEA GAMES record and
best teammate Chloe Isleta record as the Philippine swim team won a silver medal
(2:16.19). Filipino mixed martial arts veteran Robin Catalan reigned supreme in the kun
bokator men’s 50 kg category, defeating Indonesia's Ada Permana in the gold medal
fight. The 32-year-old Catalan beat Cambodia’s Sovan Nang by narrow decision to beat
Permana in the semifinals score (58-52, 18-13, 22-28) for gold.
Carlos Yulo once again proved his leadership in Southeast Asian gymnastics,
completing the men’s individual all-around triple with a total score of 84. Thanh Tung Le
and Phuong Thanh Dinh of Vietnam took silver and bronze with overall scores of 80.45
and 78.15 respectively. Meanwhile, Vietnam beat the Philippines in the men’s team
event for the second consecutive year with a gold medal total of 313 points. The five
member Filipino crew of Yulo , Juancho Miguel Besana, Ivan Cruz, Jan Gwynn Timbang
and Justine Ace de Leon took home the silver again with a combined score of 305.25.
The Philippines men’s volleyball team beat Singapore 25-23 ,23- 25, 25-22, 25-23 at the
crucial moment to finish fifth in the group stage. Jade Disquitado and Fil-Am Steve
Rotter had the biggest hits, but it was Javi Sumagai’s rejection at the net that sealed the
Filipino’s fate. Singapore's straight set win on Saturday paved the way for the
Philippines, who are winless in pool, to enter the classification stage. The Philippines
men’s volleyball team bows out at 5th. Ariana Evangelista added another gold medal to
her illustrious Filipino career by finishing second in the women’s mountain bike race at
the prestigious Angkor Wat. The Ilogga rider was behind Indonesia Dara Latifah and
ahead of Thailand Warinthorn Phetpraphan Evangelista also won a bronze medal as
part of the mixed team relay in the cross-country mountain bike event.
The karate quartet of Junna Tsukii, Jamie Lim, Remon Misu and Arianne Brito won the
silver medal for the Philippines in women’s kumite after losing 2-0 to Vietnam in the
final. Vietnam wins with 9 points in yuko, successful mid or advanced punches are
worth one point per punch. Thi Huong Dinh, Thi My Tan Hoang, Thi Ngoan and Thi
Thuong Truong gave the Vietnamese another gold medal. The Philippines retained the
title of triathlon king in the region after dominating the event for the fifth time in a row.
Fernando Casares won the men’s title for the second straight time in the swim bike-run
event with a time of 58:33.5, securing a dominance behind Nikko Huelgas (2015, 2017)
and John Leerams Chicano (2019) to retain the country’s laurels. Andrew Kim Remolino
(59:55.5) also won bronze for his country behind Indonesia silver medalist Rashif Amira
Yachen (58:47.7)
The Sea Games medal total in every nations today will be this: Cambodia gold 34, silver
28 and bronze 31, Thailand gold 21, silver 17 and bronze 27, Indonesia gold 21, silver
15, and bronze 40, Vietnam gold 18, silver 21, and bronze 31, Philippines gold 16, silver
23, and bronze 25, Singapore gold 11, silver 6, and bronze 13, Malaysia gold 8, silver
11, bronze 21, Myanmar gold 8, silver 7 bronze 23, Laos gold 4, silver 6 bronze 25,
Brunei gold 0, silver 1, bronze 2 and lastly the East Timor gold is 0, silver 0 and bronze
Here are the medals in nations as of today’s update of the SEA GAMES 2023 in
Cambodia.
In conclusion, it is overwhelming that the Philippines got the 5
th
ranking in the SEA
games 2023 and hope that their still player/athletes in every event won a gold medal to
be the top 1 of 2023 SEA GAMES.
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World Leaders at UPF Conference this Past Weekend Memorialized both Shinzo Abe and Sun Myung Moon; FFWPU Worldwide Memorializes Moon
Last Friday at UPF’s “Summit 2022 and Leadership Conference,” a five-day international summit at the Jamsil Lotte Hotel in Seoul, Shinzo Abe was commemorated, which included a video message from Donald Trump, who claimed that Abe was a good friend of his and a great person, and expressed his gratitude for Hak Ja Han.
▲ Mike Pompeo speaking in-person
▲ Trump’s video message in memory of Shinzo Abe
▲ Participants were invited to put flowers on the stage
A picture of Abe was shown on a screen with his quote, "Peace is not given by someone. It should be won."
Speakers and presenters at the conference included Mike Pence, former Vice-President of the United States (2017-2021); Stephen Harper, Canadian Prime Minister (2006-2015); Newt Gingrich, US House Speaker (1995-1999); Mike Pompeo, US Secretary of State (2018-2021); Dan Burton, US Congressman (1983-2013); and Brigi Rafini, Executive General, Community of Sahel-Saharan States and Prime Minister (2011-2021), Niger, Walter Sharp, Commander of United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command and US Forces Korea (2008-2011); Harry Harris, US Ambassador to Korea (2018-2021); and Joseph DeTrani, Special Envoy, Six-Party Talks with DPRK (2003-2006), Imboni Prophet Radebe, founder of The Revelation Spiritual Home in South Africa, Pastor Paula White-Cain, Senior Pastor, City of Destiny Church in the US; Jan Figel, European Union Special Envoy for the promotion of freedom of religion (2016-2019); and Massimo Introvigne, Managing Director, Center for Studies on New Religions, Italy, Sheikh Mansour Diouf, Head of the Murid Brotherhood, Senegal; Ibrahim Natatou, Minister of Education, Niger; Hamza Said Hamza, Minister of Youth and Sports, Somalia; Adi Koila Nailitikau, First Lady (2009-2015), Fiji; Mwaba Tony, Minister of Higher Education, DR Congo; Neziha Labidi, Minister of Women, Family and Children (2016-2020), Tunisia; Dr. Sok Siphana, Chairman, Asian Vision Institute, Cambodia; Jim Rogers, Chairman of Beeland Interests, Inc.; Bishop Don Meares, Senior Pastor, Evangel Cathedral, USA; Callista Mutharika, First Lady (2010-2012), Malawi; Dr. Song Yong-cheon, Chair, Sunhak Foundation; Dr. Hwang Sun-jo, President, Sun Moon University; and Dr. Yun Young Ho, Director General, FFWPU International.
As part of the Summit, on Sunday, August 14, participants went to the HJ Global Arts Center in Seorak, outside of Seoul, for a memorial program hosted by Hak Ja Han honoring her late husband Sun Myung Moon.
Leaders from all over the world sent messages, including Kim Jong Un, the Supreme Leader of the DPRK (North Korea): "Rev. Moon worked for the sake of world peace… and his achievements and legacy will be remembered for eons... We would like to wish prosperity and success to the International Family Federation and UPF." Kim sent flowers to the event.
Mike Pompeo, former CIA Director and US State Secretary, spoke in-person for ten minutes, hailing Moon and his accomplishments. Earlier that week, Pompeo spoke at the UPF event on religious liberty, likely due to the events in Japan.
“Rev. Moon and his peace work impacted millions,” said Cambodian Assemblyman Suos Yara, who delivered a message from Samdech Hun Sen, Prime Minister of the Royal Kingdom of Cambodia.
Moon’s 10 year death (”ascension”) anniversary was observed this past weekend all over the world.
▲ Unification Church gathering in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
▲ Unification Church gathering Brazil
▲ Unification Church gathering in Thailand
▲ Unification Church in Malaysia
▲ Unification Church in Tanzania
Ten years since Moon has been dead, and the organizations he left behind, and the sects that have since formed, are continuing on his legacy of exploiting and abusing people for the sake of building personal wealth for a few elite church families as well as for the promotion of imperialist interests.
Hak Ja Han, Founder of Universal Peace Federation (UPF) declared she is “Female Jesus”
FFWPU President of IAPP Prosecuted for Money Laundering and Drug Smuggling in US Court; may be connected to UC / FFWPU Leadership
Leni Robredo is a progressive Moonie-supporter?
Abe’s “ties” with the Unification Church were politically motivated
The Crime That Killed Shinzo Abe
#unification church#ffwpu#family federation for world peace and unification#moonies#unification church in africa#unification church in malaysia#unification church in tanzania#unification church in thailand#unification church in brazil#unification church in the democratic republic of the congo#upf#universal peace federation#donald trump#mike pompeo#mike pence#shinzo abe#sun myung moon#kim jong un#north korea#DPRK
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what i read in may 2021:
(previous editions) bold = favourite
class & race
africa's lost languages: how english can fuel an identity crisis
asians out! not in this suburb. not in this apartment (australia)
canada mourns as remains of 215 children found at indigenous school
few classes, pizza for lunch and admission to top universities: the lifestyle of elite chinese secondary school students causes fury
the nt’s tough-on-crime approach won’t reduce youth offending. this is what we know works (australia)
tulsa massacre: the search for victims, 100 years on (usa)
gender & sexuality
safe sweden faces up to wave of women's killings
the gender biases that shape our brains
stop asking why she took the nude, start asking why he shared it
asian women on being sexually objectified and fetishised
the megacity where single women lie to rent flats (nigeria)
multiple-choice exams favour boys over girls, worsening the maths gender gap
politics, covid, & climate change
friday essay: searching for sanity in a world hell-bent on destruction
glaring vaccine gaps across the world are too big to ignore
wear your mask properly! uncovering the reasons behind public mask shaming (singapore)
why germany's namibia genocide apology is not enough
when we call people with strange behaviour mentally ill, we reinforce mental health stigma (singapore)
the dangers of politicised science
history, culture, & media
‘minari’: part of a wave of 2nd generation storytelling about what it means to participate in america
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Interterm 2021 Courses
Over the past six weeks (an extended interterm), I have been taking a French literature course. To read about what else I was up to during interterm, click here. (You can also read about all of my past courses here). The full course title is quite a mouthful, but here it is Colloquium in French Studies French Calligraphies: Contemporary Chinese Women's Writing (FRN 230). FRN 230 is the basis of the French studies major and serves as a gateway course for more advanced courses. FRN 230 has a literature designation for Latin Honors and is also a writing-intensive course. (Taking a writing-intensive course is the only specific requirement outside of your major requirements! Well, that is unless you are an engineering major like me). FRN 230 is a topics course that is usually offered twice every semester.
FRN 230 is a normal 4 credit course but was accelerated to fit into less than half of a semester. This meant we met for two hours a day four days a week. Okay, we didn’t actually meet the entire two hours each class. Rather we often had half group discussions at the end of class and only had to be on Zoom for our group. We had class Monday through Thursday and had papers to turn in most Fridays.
In the course, we read a novel, a graphic novel, excerpts from other texts, and watched a film. The excerpts were made available through a free course pack, which I really appreciated. The full texts we read were Jeune Fille Modèle and Banana Girl. All of the texts were in French, but the film was in Chinese (which I do not know) with English subtitles. Despite the title of the course, one of the works was written by a male writer. Most of the works were at least semi-autobiographical. All of the authors are first-generation immigrants to France from China or Cambodia. Through the texts, we studied the cultural revolution and the concept of cultural hybridity.
A typical night’s work was some reading with help of a reading guide (containing key vocabulary and comprehension questions) and a reading journal entry. There were also discussion questions to think about for the next day’s class and occasional grammar exercises. Over the term, we had to write four papers of increasing length. In class, we practiced our oral French through discussion of the readings. Additionally, we had to give an oral presentation and had four debates (somewhat formal graded discussions). Even though it was a remote class, we got to learn about calligraphy through a virtual visit to the Smith College Museum of Art and a hands-on workshop. With the exception of those two classes, the course was entirely in French.
Overall, I really enjoyed the readings and course discussions. I didn’t like writing the papers, but I do think my written French has improved.
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Saturday, May 1, 2021
Student loan debts
(WSJ) U.S. taxpayers could ultimately be on the hook for roughly a third of the $1.6 trillion federal student loan portfolio. This could amount to more than $500 billion, exceeding what taxpayers lost on the saving-and-loan crisis 30 years ago. While defaulted student loans can’t cause the federal government to go bankrupt the way bad mortgage lending upended banks during the financial crisis, they expose a similar problem: Billions of dollars lent based on flawed assumptions about whether the money can be repaid.
Costa Rica to close non-essential businesses next week over COVID-19
(Reuters) Costa Rica will for the next week close non-essential businesses, including restaurants and bars, across the center of the country due to a sharp increase in new cases of COVID-19 and hospitalizations, the government said on Thursday. From May 3-9, restaurants, bars, department stores, beauty salons, gyms and churches must close in 45 municipalities in central Costa Rica, where almost half the population lives and over two-thirds of new cases have been registered. The government will also impose travel restrictions during the week.
After a Year of Loss, South America Suffers Worst Death Tolls Yet
(NYT) In the capital of Colombia, Bogotá, the mayor is warning residents to brace for “the worst two weeks of our lives.” Uruguay, once lauded as a model for keeping the coronavirus under control, now has one of the highest death rates in the world, while the grim daily tallies of the dead have hit records in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Peru in recent days. Even Venezuela, where the authoritarian government is notorious for hiding health statistics and any suggestion of disarray, says that coronavirus deaths are up 86 percent since January. As vaccinations mount in some of the world’s wealthiest countries and people cautiously envision life after the pandemic, the crisis in Latin America—and in South America in particular—is taking an alarming turn for the worse, potentially threatening the progress made well beyond its borders. Last week, Latin America accounted for 35 percent of all coronavirus deaths in the world, despite having just 8 percent of the global population, according to data compiled by The New York Times.
France Proposes More Surveillance to Hunt for Potential Terrorists
(NYT) The French government, responding to several attacks over the past seven months, presented a new anti-terrorism bill on Wednesday that would allow intense algorithmic surveillance of phone and internet communications and tighten restrictions on convicted terrorists emerging from prison. “There have been nine attacks in a row that we could not detect through current means,” Gérald Darmanin, the interior minister, told France Inter radio. “We continue to be blind, doing surveillance on normal phone lines that nobody uses any longer.” The draft bill, prepared by Mr. Darmanin, came in a political and social climate envenomed by Marine Le Pen, the far-right leader, who applauded a letter published this month by 20 retired generals that described France as being in a state of “disintegration” and warned of a possible coup in thinly veiled terms. Published in a right-wing magazine, Valeurs Actuelles, the generals’ letter portrayed a country ravaged by violence, swept by hatred and prey to subversive ideologies bent on stirring a racial war. “If nothing is done,” they said, “laxity will spread inexorably across society, provoking in the end an explosion and the intervention of our active-service comrades in the perilous protection of our civilization’s values.”
Toll of Afghan ‘forever war’
(AP) After 20 years, America is ending its “forever war” in Afghanistan. Announcing a firm withdrawal deadline, President Joe Biden cut through the long debate, even within the U.S. military, over whether the time was right. Starting Saturday, the last remaining 2,500 to 3,500 American troops will begin leaving, to be fully out by Sept. 11 at the latest. Another debate will likely go on far longer: Was it worth it? Since 2001, tens of thousands of Afghans and 2,442 American soldiers have been killed, millions of Afghans driven from their homes, and billions of dollars spent on war and reconstruction. The U.S. and NATO leave behind an Afghanistan that is at least half run directly or indirectly by the Taliban—despite billions poured into training and arming Afghan forces to fight them. Riddled with corruption and tied to regional warlords, the U.S.-backed government is widely distrusted by many Afghans.
In India’s devastating coronavirus surge, anger at Modi grows
(Washington Post) As he surveyed the thousands of people gathered at an election rally in eastern India on April 17, Prime Minister Narendra Modi appeared jubilant. “Everywhere I look, as far as I can see, there are crowds,” he said, his arms spread wide. “You have done an extraordinary thing.” At the time, India was recording more than 200,000 coronavirus cases a day. In the western state of Maharashtra, oxygen was running short, and people were dying at home because of a shortage of hospital beds. In Modi’s home state of Gujarat, crematoriums were being overwhelmed by the dead. For Modi, the most powerful Indian prime minister in five decades, it is a moment of reckoning. He is facing what appears to be the country’s biggest crisis since independence. Modi’s own lapses and missteps are an increasing source of anger. As coronavirus cases skyrocketed, Modi continued to hold huge election rallies and declined to cancel a Hindu religious festival that drew millions to the banks of the Ganges River. Modi swept to a landslide reelection victory in 2019, offering Indians a muscular brand of nationalism that views India as a fundamentally Hindu country rather than the secular republic envisioned by its founders. He has cultivated an image as a singular leader capable of bold decisions to protect and transform the country. Now that image is “in tatters,” said Vinay Sitapati, a political scientist at Ashoka University in the northern Indian state of Haryana. Modi and his governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) built a formidable machine for winning elections, Sitapati said, but their mind-set of continuous campaigning has come “at the cost of governance.”
Iran and Saudi Arabia Edge Toward Détente
(Foreign Policy) Iran’s relationship with Saudi Arabia could be entering “a new chapter of interaction and cooperation,” Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said on Thursday, as the two countries signal a rapid mending of diplomatic ties. Khatibzadeh’s comments came in response to an interview Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman gave to state television this week, when he said that problems between the regional rivals could be overcome and “good relations” could soon prevail. His recent comments offer a stark contrast with ones he made in 2018 when he compared Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to Adolf Hitler and described Iran as part of a “triangle of evil.” Behind the scenes, the two countries have also been busy. Earlier this month, the Financial Times broke news of direct talks, held in Baghdad, with a primary focus on ending the war in Yemen.
Chloe Zhao's challenge to Chinese Beauty standards
(Quartz) Although Chloé Zhao’s Oscars win has largely been censored in China, her chill, no-makeup look at the awards ceremony has become a hit among many Chinese women, who say Zhao made them feel they can also ditch cosmetics and stop appealing to mainstream beauty standards in the country. China has a set of rigid standards for women’s appearance, prompting online slimming challenges that encourage young girls to pursue body shapes that allow them to wear children’s clothes, or have waists with a width similar to the shorter side of a piece of A4 paper (around 21 cm). As such, Zhao’s no-makeup look is a much-needed endorsement for women in China, where few public figures dare to break away from traditional beauty requirements.
Hong Kong’s latest star TV host? City leader Carrie Lam.
(Washington Post) In a city known for producing action-packed martial arts movies, there’s a gripping new TV show on the block. The title promises to captivate viewers: “Get to Know the Election Committee Subsectors.” The star? Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam, not as a guest but as the host. The show, which premiered Wednesday on public broadcaster Radio Television Hong Kong, gives Lam a platform to promote electoral changes introduced by Beijing that further tilt the system against pro-democracy voices, add weight to industry-sector representatives and ensure only “patriots” loyal to the Communist Party can govern Hong Kong. People in mainland China have long been accustomed to state propaganda broadcasts. Hong Kong, however, traditionally had a freewheeling media environment. But almost a year after China imposed a security law that curtailed freedom of speech there, the public broadcaster has become a vital instrument of Beijing’s efforts to control the narrative. Wednesday night’s double-episode premiere featured furious agreement on the merit of Beijing’s electoral changes. The episodes scored only a few thousand views and mostly “thumbs-down” responses on YouTube. One user drew comparisons to George Orwell’s “1984.” If you missed the show, there’s plenty of opportunity to catch it again; episodes will air four times a day, every day.
Cambodians complain of lockdown hunger as outbreak takes toll on poor
(Reuters) Residents in Cambodia’s capital gathered on Friday to demand food from the government, outraged at what they called inadequate aid distribution during a tough COVID-19 lockdown that bars people from leaving their homes. Authorities put Phnom Penh and a nearby town under a hard lockdown on April 19 to quell a surge in coronavirus infections that has seen Cambodia’s case total balloon from about 500 to 12,641 since late February, including all 91 of its deaths. Though private food deliveries are operating, markets and street food services are closed, making it difficult for poorer families to get supplies, with many without income because of the stay-home order. Amnesty International on Friday called Cambodia’s lockdown an emerging humanitarian and human rights crisis, with nearly 294,000 people in Phnom Penh at risk of going hungry.
Palestinian election delay
(Reuters) It could have marked a political turning point. Palestinians were slated to go to the polls starting next month for the first time in 15 years—but on Thursday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced he will indefinitely postpone the elections. He blamed Israel, accusing authorities of stonewalling efforts to let Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem cast their ballots. But Israeli officials suggested Abbas was using Israel as a pretext to cancel a vote his faction might lose. Hamas, his party’s rival, has rejected the move, and some Palestinians took to the streets to protest.
The real threat to Chad’s military rulers: unemployed youth
(Reuters) When Neldjibaye Madjissem graduated with a mathematics degree in 2015, he began searching for work as a school teacher. Six years on, he is still looking—and is angry. The 31-year-old blames Chad's government for lack of work, mismanagement of oil revenues and corruption. No wonder people are protesting on the streets in their thousands, he says. The battlefield death of President Idriss Deby last week, after 30 years of autocratic rule, sent the Central African country into a tailspin. But perhaps the greater threat for Chad’s rulers comes from the mass of unemployed young people tired of the Deby family and its international allies, particularly former colonial ruler France. At least six people died in violent protests this week. "The lack of jobs risks creating a great problem. The people are angry," said Madjissem, as he prepared a private lesson to a high school student in the living room of a tiny house in N'Djamena. His infrequent wage: $3 an hour.
Famine looms in southern Madagascar, U.N.’s food agency says
(Reuters) Famine is looming in southern Madagascar, where children are “starving” after drought and sandstorms ruined harvests, the U.N.’s World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday. Amer Daoudi, senior director of WFP operations globally, speaking from Antananarivo, Madagascar, said he had visited villages where people had resorted to eating locusts and leaves. “I witnessed horrific images of starving children, malnourished, and not only the children—mothers, parents and the populations in villages we visited,” Daoudi told a United Nations briefing in Geneva. Malnutrition has almost doubled to 16% from 9% in March 2020 following five consecutive years of drought, exacerbated this year by sandstorms and late rains, he said.
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Arrival
After 3 flights from Amsterdam via Helsinki via Bangkok, I arrived in Siem Reap late Thursday evening. For such a long journey, and not all of my flights being on the same ticket, I was pleasantly surprised that it was fairly uneventful. Being the ambitious and prompt travel that I am, I actually arrived to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam 3 hours before my flight only to find out that the checkin desk did not open until 2 hours before my flight. Better early than late! I hit a little bump entering Cambodia: though my flight was sparsely booked from Bangkok to Siem Reap (rainy/low season) our flight attendant must have missed my seat when handing out arrival cards (I was probably visiting the toilet when he passed through). So I entered arrival immigration and customs without my landing/customs card in hand and the polite officers were not impressed by me (since other passengers on my same flight had cards in hand). After traveling so long it slipped my tired mind that I should have asked for them before I got off the plane! Just a small bump though, they kindly found me some blank cards and I was on my way.
A taxi delivered me to my lovely apartment and my generous host Oma waited up for me to arrive and show me around. She is renting me an apartment in her building until a new tenant takes over long term in September. Carrying onto Friday and Saturday I needed some adjusting to my sleep patterns so I had some ups and downs of being awake and being asleep. I got some shopping done for my apartment (laundry detergent, water, soap, snacks, toilet paper, etc) and took note of banks, pharmacies, mini marts, etc. I also had a look around at some activities for my weekends, so tomorrow (Sunday) I have booked a small excursion to do horse trekking outside of Siem Reap during sunrise (coolest time of the day). Temperatures during my stay will range between 25-31 degrees Celsius (though add a few extra degrees to that for the humidity effect). After dark the evenings are quite pleasant with a nice breeze.
I will start work with Women’s Resource Center this coming Monday so I’m glad I arrived some days early.
A few snaps around Siem Reap.
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Holidays
American in Space Day
Arbegnoch Qen (Patriots’ Victory Day; Ethiopia)
Bevrijdingsday (Liberation Day; Netherlands)
Bonza Bottler Day
Bus Worker Support Day (UK)
Carpet Weavers’ Day (Azerbaijan)
Cinco de Mayo (Anniversary of the Battle of Puebla)
Cinco de Rhino
Constitution Day (Kyrgyzstan)
Dutch Heritage Day (Canada)
Europe Day (EU)
Folly Festival
Give Local America Day
Global Big Day
Hand Hygiene Day
Hidirellez (Turkey)
Hug a Shed and Take a Selfie Day
Independent Living Day (EU)
Indian Arrival Day (Guyana)
Inko de Mayo
International Sri du Chat Awareness Day
International Midwives' Day
International Roller Derby Day
International Uyghur Doppa Day
Kodomo-No-Hi (Children's Day; Japan)
Liberation Day (Denmark, Netherlands)
Lusophone Culture Day
Martyrs’ Day (Albania)
Museum Lover’s Day
Nail Day
National Astronaut Day
National Cartoonists Day
National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women
National Ferret Day (UK)
National Library Legislation
National Silence the Shame Day
Orininal (Children’s Day; South Korea)
Parasite Awareness Day
Patriots’ Victory Day (Ethiopia)
Perfect Game Day
Revenge of the Fifth (Star Wars)
Save Lives Clean Your Hands Day (UN)
Senior Citizens Day (Palau)
Significant Other Day
Tamil Tigers Day
World African Heritage Day
World Environment Day
World Fives Day
World Hand Hygiene Day
World Labyrinth Day in Schools
World Math Day
World Portuguese Language Day
World Pulmonary Hypertension Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
National Burgundy Day
National Enchilada Day
National Hoagie Day
Oyster Day
Totally Chipotle Day
1st Friday in May
Administrative Professionals Day (Australia) [1st Friday]
Bandcamp Friday [1st Friday]
Child Care Provider Appreciation Day (a.k.a. Provider Appreciation Day) [Friday before Mother's Day]
Digital Wellness Day [1st Friday]
International Pub Week begins (Australia) [1st Friday thru 2nd Monday]
National Flower Arranging Day (UK) [1st Friday]
International Sauvignon Blanc Day [1st Friday]
International Space Day [1st Friday]
International Tuba Day [1st Friday]
Kentucky Oaks Derby Day [Friday before 1st Saturday in May]
Military Spouse Day [Friday before Mother's Day]
National Public Gardens Day [Friday before Mother's Day]
No Pants Day [1st Friday]
Potato Day (Alaska) [1st Friday]
Sauvignon Blanc Day [1st Friday]
School Lunch Hero Day [1st Friday]
Space Day (California) [1st Friday]
Toad Suck Daze begin (Conway, Arkansas) [1st Friday]
Independence Days
Atovia (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]
Hope Kingdom (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]
The Netherlands (from Nazi Germany, 1945)
Pangration (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]
Transterra (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Angelus of Jerusalem (Christian; Saint)
Aventinus of Tours (Christian; Saint)
Avertin (Christian; Saint)
Buddha Day [5th Full Moon of the Year] (a.k.a. ...
Buddha Jayanti (Nepal)
Buddha Purnima (Parts of India)
Buddha Purnuma (Bangladesh)
Hari Raya Waisaki (Indonesia)
Lord Buddha’s Parinirvana (Bhutan)
Saga Dawa (Sikkim, India)
Shyadar Pidar (Parts of India)
Vesak Day (Singapore, Sri Lanka)
Visakha Bucha Day (Thailand)
Visakh Bochea (Cambodia)
Wesak (Malaysia)
Chicken Lickin’ (Muppetism)
Day of Adoration of Anubis (Ancient Egypt)
Edmund Ignatius Rice (Christian; Saint)
Feast of al-Khadr (St. George; Palestine)
Ferret Day (Pastafarian)
Frederick the Wise (Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod)
Full Moon [5th of the Year] (a.k.a. ...
Bright Moon (Celtic)
Buddha Day (Buddhism)
Budding Moon (Traditional)
Corn Planting Moon (Alternate)
Dragon Moon (China)
Egg Laying Moon (Traditional)
Fell Moon (South Africa)
Flower Moon (Amer. Indian, North America, Traditional)
Grass Moon (Neo-Pagan)
Hare Moon (England, Wicca)
Leaf Budding Moon (Traditional)
Milk Moon (Colonial)
Panther Moon (Choctaw)
Planting (Cherokee, Traditional)
Southern Hemisphere: Beaver, Frost, Hunter’s
Hilary of Arles (Christian; Saint)
Judith (Christian; Saint)
Jutta of Kulmsee (Christian; Saint)
Kakava Spring Festival begins (Bulgaria, Turkey) [thru 5.6]
Mauront (Christian; Saint)
Oshun’s Day (Pagan)
Pius V, Pope (Christian; Saint)
Polybius (Positivist; Saint)
Stanisław Kazimierczyk (Christian; Saint)
Start of Ramendan (Pastafarian)
Store Bededag (a.k.a. Great Prayer Day; Denmark) [4th Friday after Easter]
Tango no Sekku (Iris Festival; Japan)
Tiberius Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Perilous Day (13th Century England) [16 of 32]
Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]
Premieres
Bad Moon Rising, by Creedence Clearwater Revival (Song; 1969)
Buddy’s Trolley Troubles (WB LT Cartoon; 1934)
Donald’s Fire Survival Plan (Disney Cartoon; 1966)
French Kiss (Film; 1995)
From the Choirgirl Hotel, by Tori Amos (Album; 1998)
Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z (WB LT Cartoon; 1956)
Gladiator (Film; 2000)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (Film; 2017)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (Film; 2023)
Hare Trigger (WB MM Cartoon; 1945)
The Hidden Persuader, by Vance Packard (Book; 1958)
Hoot (Film; 2006)
Interview with the Vampire, by Anne Rice (Novel; 1976)
Jagged Little Pill (Musical Play; 2018)
The Love Boat (TV Series; 1977)
Mission Impossible III (Film; 2006)
Nim (Video Game; 1951)
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez (Novel; 1967)
One Man Band (Pixar Cartoon; 2005)
The Pentaverate (TV Series; 2022)
Planet Earth (Documentary; 2006)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, by John le Carre (Novel; 1964)
Steel and America (Disney Cartoon; 1965)
This Is America, by Donald Glover as Childish Gambino (Song; 2018)
Watch Me (Whip/NaeNae), by Silento (Song 2015)
Today’s Name Days
Florian, Guido, Valeria (Austria)
Cvijeta, Cvjetko, Florijan, Iskra, Silvije (Croatia)
Květoslav (Czech Republic)
Florian (Denmark)
Roosi, Rosalie, Saale, Saali, Sale (Estonia)
Roosa, Rosa, Ruusu (Finland)
Florian, Sylvain (France)
Florian, Guido, Valeria (Germany)
Melia, Pelagia (Greece)
Flórián, Mónika (Hungary)
Ada, Ciriaco, Efisio, Porfirio, Silvano (Italy)
Flora, Florians, Viola, Vizbulīte (Latvia)
Dargailas, Florijonas, Mintautė, Monika (Lithuania)
Mona, Monika (Norway)
Florian, Grzegorz, January, Michał, Monika, Paulin, Strzeżywoj (Poland)
Pelaghia (Romania)
Florián (Slovakia)
Florián, Godofredo (Spain)
Mona, Monika (Sweden)
Alvina, Eunice, June, Palahna, Una (Ukraine)
Jodi, Jodie, Jody, Judie, Judith, Judy, Terrell, Tyrell, Tyrese, Tyron, Tyrone, Tyrrell, Tyson (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 124 of 2024; 241 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 4 of week 18 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Saille (Willow) [Day 19 of 28]
Chinese: Month 3 (Bing-Chen), Day 15 (Ren-Xu)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 13 Iyar 5783
Islamic: 13 Shawwal 1444
J Cal: 3 Bīja; Threesday [3 of 30]
Julian: 21 April 2023
Moon: 100%: Full Moon
Positivist: 12 Caesar (5th Month) [Philopoemen]
Runic Half Month: Lagu (Flowing Water) [Day 10 of 15]
Season: Spring (Day 46 of 90)
Zodiac: Taurus (Day 15 of 30)
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Holidays 5.5
Holidays
American in Space Day
Arbegnoch Qen (Patriots’ Victory Day; Ethiopia)
Bevrijdingsday (Liberation Day; Netherlands)
Bonza Bottler Day
Bus Worker Support Day (UK)
Carpet Weavers’ Day (Azerbaijan)
Cinco de Mayo (Anniversary of the Battle of Puebla)
Cinco de Rhino
Constitution Day (Kyrgyzstan)
Dutch Heritage Day (Canada)
Europe Day (EU)
Folly Festival
Give Local America Day
Global Big Day
Hand Hygiene Day
Hidirellez (Turkey)
Hug a Shed and Take a Selfie Day
Independent Living Day (EU)
Indian Arrival Day (Guyana)
Inko de Mayo
International Sri du Chat Awareness Day
International Midwives' Day
International Roller Derby Day
International Uyghur Doppa Day
Kodomo-No-Hi (Children's Day; Japan)
Liberation Day (Denmark, Netherlands)
Lusophone Culture Day
Martyrs’ Day (Albania)
Museum Lover’s Day
Nail Day
National Astronaut Day
National Cartoonists Day
National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women
National Ferret Day (UK)
National Library Legislation
National Silence the Shame Day
Orininal (Children’s Day; South Korea)
Parasite Awareness Day
Patriots’ Victory Day (Ethiopia)
Perfect Game Day
Revenge of the Fifth (Star Wars)
Save Lives Clean Your Hands Day (UN)
Senior Citizens Day (Palau)
Significant Other Day
Tamil Tigers Day
World African Heritage Day
World Environment Day
World Fives Day
World Hand Hygiene Day
World Labyrinth Day in Schools
World Math Day
World Portuguese Language Day
World Pulmonary Hypertension Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
National Burgundy Day
National Enchilada Day
National Hoagie Day
Oyster Day
Totally Chipotle Day
1st Friday in May
Administrative Professionals Day (Australia) [1st Friday]
Bandcamp Friday [1st Friday]
Child Care Provider Appreciation Day (a.k.a. Provider Appreciation Day) [Friday before Mother's Day]
Digital Wellness Day [1st Friday]
International Pub Week begins (Australia) [1st Friday thru 2nd Monday]
National Flower Arranging Day (UK) [1st Friday]
International Sauvignon Blanc Day [1st Friday]
International Space Day [1st Friday]
International Tuba Day [1st Friday]
Kentucky Oaks Derby Day [Friday before 1st Saturday in May]
Military Spouse Day [Friday before Mother's Day]
National Public Gardens Day [Friday before Mother's Day]
No Pants Day [1st Friday]
Potato Day (Alaska) [1st Friday]
Sauvignon Blanc Day [1st Friday]
School Lunch Hero Day [1st Friday]
Space Day (California) [1st Friday]
Toad Suck Daze begin (Conway, Arkansas) [1st Friday]
Independence Days
Atovia (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]
Hope Kingdom (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]
The Netherlands (from Nazi Germany, 1945)
Pangration (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]
Transterra (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Angelus of Jerusalem (Christian; Saint)
Aventinus of Tours (Christian; Saint)
Avertin (Christian; Saint)
Buddha Day [5th Full Moon of the Year] (a.k.a. ...
Buddha Jayanti (Nepal)
Buddha Purnima (Parts of India)
Buddha Purnuma (Bangladesh)
Hari Raya Waisaki (Indonesia)
Lord Buddha’s Parinirvana (Bhutan)
Saga Dawa (Sikkim, India)
Shyadar Pidar (Parts of India)
Vesak Day (Singapore, Sri Lanka)
Visakha Bucha Day (Thailand)
Visakh Bochea (Cambodia)
Wesak (Malaysia)
Chicken Lickin’ (Muppetism)
Day of Adoration of Anubis (Ancient Egypt)
Edmund Ignatius Rice (Christian; Saint)
Feast of al-Khadr (St. George; Palestine)
Ferret Day (Pastafarian)
Frederick the Wise (Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod)
Full Moon [5th of the Year] (a.k.a. ...
Bright Moon (Celtic)
Buddha Day (Buddhism)
Budding Moon (Traditional)
Corn Planting Moon (Alternate)
Dragon Moon (China)
Egg Laying Moon (Traditional)
Fell Moon (South Africa)
Flower Moon (Amer. Indian, North America, Traditional)
Grass Moon (Neo-Pagan)
Hare Moon (England, Wicca)
Leaf Budding Moon (Traditional)
Milk Moon (Colonial)
Panther Moon (Choctaw)
Planting (Cherokee, Traditional)
Southern Hemisphere: Beaver, Frost, Hunter’s
Hilary of Arles (Christian; Saint)
Judith (Christian; Saint)
Jutta of Kulmsee (Christian; Saint)
Kakava Spring Festival begins (Bulgaria, Turkey) [thru 5.6]
Mauront (Christian; Saint)
Oshun’s Day (Pagan)
Pius V, Pope (Christian; Saint)
Polybius (Positivist; Saint)
Stanisław Kazimierczyk (Christian; Saint)
Start of Ramendan (Pastafarian)
Store Bededag (a.k.a. Great Prayer Day; Denmark) [4th Friday after Easter]
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Bad Moon Rising, by Creedence Clearwater Revival (Song; 1969)
Buddy’s Trolley Troubles (WB LT Cartoon; 1934)
Donald’s Fire Survival Plan (Disney Cartoon; 1966)
French Kiss (Film; 1995)
From the Choirgirl Hotel, by Tori Amos (Album; 1998)
Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z (WB LT Cartoon; 1956)
Gladiator (Film; 2000)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (Film; 2017)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (Film; 2023)
Hare Trigger (WB MM Cartoon; 1945)
The Hidden Persuader, by Vance Packard (Book; 1958)
Hoot (Film; 2006)
Interview with the Vampire, by Anne Rice (Novel; 1976)
Jagged Little Pill (Musical Play; 2018)
The Love Boat (TV Series; 1977)
Mission Impossible III (Film; 2006)
Nim (Video Game; 1951)
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez (Novel; 1967)
One Man Band (Pixar Cartoon; 2005)
The Pentaverate (TV Series; 2022)
Planet Earth (Documentary; 2006)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, by John le Carre (Novel; 1964)
Steel and America (Disney Cartoon; 1965)
This Is America, by Donald Glover as Childish Gambino (Song; 2018)
Watch Me (Whip/NaeNae), by Silento (Song 2015)
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Florian, Guido, Valeria (Austria)
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Květoslav (Czech Republic)
Florian (Denmark)
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Day of Year: Day 124 of 2024; 241 days remaining in the year
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Chinese: Month 3 (Bing-Chen), Day 15 (Ren-Xu)
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Julian: 21 April 2023
Moon: 100%: Full Moon
Positivist: 12 Caesar (5th Month) [Philopoemen]
Runic Half Month: Lagu (Flowing Water) [Day 10 of 15]
Season: Spring (Day 46 of 90)
Zodiac: Taurus (Day 15 of 30)
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On Friday 16 November 2018 the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) handed down a guilty verdict against ageing former Khmer Rouge leaders Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan in what’s known as Case 002/02. Out of fears that they would die before a verdict was reached, the case against them had been split into multiple parts. As such, they were already found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life in prison in Case 002/01.
So what’s so significant about last week’s verdict?
First and foremost is the crimes that were considered as part of Case 002/02. The first conviction against Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan had related primarily to the forced evacuation of Phnom Penh in April 1975 and to a specific instance (at Tuol Po Chrey in Pursat province) where members of the previous government’s military were killed. This second part of the case considered a much broader range of crimes, and crimes that reflect the experiences of many more Cambodians during the Khmer Rouge regime.
Case 002/02 included crimes related to the appalling conditions in cooperatives and worksites, torture and killings at security centres, discrimination against the Vietnamese, ethnic Cham minority, and Buddhists, and forced marriage. In a survey conducted in 2008, when Cambodians were asked which crimes Khmer Rouge leaders should be held accountable for, only 4.9% of them mentioned forced evacuation, which had been the focus of Case 002/01. On the other hand, 80% listed killing, 63% listed starvation, 56% listed forced labour, and 33% referred to torture. Trials such as those before the ECCC are meant to do more than just sentence perpetrators; they are tasked with contributing to a sense of substantive justice, and with helping to find the truth about what happened. So, although these two defendants had already been convicted and sentenced, it had not yet been for what were considered to be the right crimes.
There are two particular crimes worth drawing attention to: forced marriage and genocide.
Forced marriage
The Khmer Rouge’s policy of forced marriage, and the rape that occurred within those forced marriages, was not well known before the ECCC, despite estimates now that 400,000 people were forcibly married under the Khmer Rouge. It is largely through the testimony of civil parties (victims who have become parties to the proceedings before the ECCC) and through the advocacy of their lawyers that this issue was brought into the spotlight.
In harrowing testimony, victims recounted how they were too scared to refuse to be married but that they “could see that some people shed their tears quietly”. Couples would be monitored in their homes the night of their marriage by Khmer Rouge cadre to ensure they consummated the marriage. Another victim recalled, “I had to sleep with my husband because I would be in danger if I did not sleep with my husband. Because there was a militiaman eavesdropping, I submitted myself to be a wife. I could not avoid, so I tried to take this”. Women who refused to have sex with their new husband were sometimes raped by local Khmer Rouge leaders.
Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan were convicted of crimes against humanity for both forced marriages and the rapes that occurred with them. This conviction is significant from an international law perspective for recognising forced marriage as a gendered crime that was committed against both male and female victims, and for addressing it at a national scale. It is also highly significant to those victims who came forward after decades of silence. However, the ECCC has also been criticised for not addressing sexual violence that occurred under the Khmer Rouge in contexts other than forced marriage.
Genocide
Undoubtedly, the genocide conviction issued by the ECCC received the greatest attention from the Case 002/02 verdict.
Nuon Chea was found guilty of genocide against the Vietnamese and the Cham, and Khieu Samphan was found guilty of genocide against the Vietnamese (but not the Cham, with the Trial Chamber finding that “the evidence did not rise to the level of proving that Khieu Samphan actively assisted or facilitated the execution of the genocidal policy against the Cham”). Curiously, the summary of the judgement notes that “Judge YOU Ottara appends a separate opinion on genocide to the Judgement”. This is the first separate opinion issued by a single Cambodian judge, but its contents are not yet known.
There is immense power in the label of genocide. The actions covered by the conviction for crimes against humanity are just as horrific, yet it is those considered genocide that often attract far more attention. This is just as true in Cambodia, where the Khmer Rouge period is referred to as a genocide in Khmer (ប្រល័យពូជសាសន៍).
Legally, however, genocide only refers to the “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”. This has led to divisive debates amongst scholars of Cambodia over whether some or all of the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge could be considered genocide. It also means that the experiences of ethnically-Khmer Cambodians (the vast majority of the population) are not covered by the definition, and the ECCC has not found the crimes committed against them to be genocide.
Here is where the verdict is ripe for misinterpretation. News headlines are very carefully crafted to engage readers by referring to genocide without explicitly misrepresenting the verdict (for example, the New York Times said “Khmer Rouge’s Slaughter in Cambodia is Ruled a Genocide”). For most people, Cambodian and foreigners alike, the details of this verdict will have little to no impact compared to the overarching label of genocide. However, there is a longstanding concern that if it enters into public consciousness in Cambodia that the ECCC found the treatment of the Vietnamese was a genocide but that the treatment of the Khmer was not, that this could further inflame anti-Vietnamese sentiment.
A complicated legacy
The final question to ask about the ECCC and Case 002/02 is: where to from here?
Last week, a summary of the judgement was read out before the Trial Chamber and released online. However, the full judgement is not yet available, with the only information given is that it will be released “in due course”. This decision has been criticised in a report from Stanford University’s WSD Handa Center for Human Rights and International Justice noting that Cambodia’s (notoriously weak) judiciary often relies on summary judgements without full reasoning, and that the ECCC had a chance to leave a different legacy.
The timeline for appeals will not start until this full judgement is released, although both defence teams have already flagged their intention to file appeals. In Case 002/01 the judgement was announced in August 2014 and the appeals proceedings concluded in November 2016. The current completion plan for the ECCC, foresees an appeal judgement in Case 002/02 in the third quarter of 2020.
As for trials against other suspects, myself and other New Mandala contributors have written about the reasons why it is highly unlikely these contentious cases will go ahead. In the aftermath of the Case 002/02 verdict, Minister of Interior Sar Kheng said that since there are “no more” top Khmer Rouge leaders, the government’s policy is that “now this process has ended”. It is hardly surprising, but serves as additional evidence that once the Case 002/02 appeals conclude, so too will the ECCC.
Rebecca Gidley is the author of Illiberal Transitional Justice and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
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