tkt8763-01: website announcement: From Sideshow to Genocide (fwd)

["Larry S. Anderson -- NCTP" <lsa1@ra.msstate.edu>]

My dear friends....I send you this message so you can join me in lamenting
the grievous wrongs performed, sans conscience, upon millions of valuable
human lives during our lifetimes.  I commend this educational resource to
you so that you can extend the range, as well as the depth, of students'
(of all ages) understanding.

Andy Carvin is an amazing young man!!!  Rarely have I had the personal
experience to be around an individual in whom I hold a higher level of
educational awe.  Andy is a phenomenal "expresser of his thoughts" through
the written word.  Moreover, his presentation of graphical information is
without comparison.....not solely for the clinical, precise accuracy of
the technology, but for the humanity he injects into what would,
otherwise, be a stark medium.  Many of you share my friendship with Andy.
You, like I, yearn to share his work...to help spread the positive
benefits of his loving labors...and to ensure that others within our range
of influence feel the compelling truth that Andy attempts to disperse in
any environ where he can be found.  What an amazing young man!

I am especially proud of Andy for having saved his hard-earned money, then
taken a trip to Cambodia (as well as other "torn" spots on this planet) so
he could research these conditions, personally.  Then, the stories he is
able to tell hold such *reality*....such sway, because we know that Andy
has walked the paths that hold the stories he shares with us...with such
an immensely loving heart.

So, I hope you will give a good effort to examine this web site that Andy
has put together.  Perhaps we will be able to have Andy back as a guest
with us in Mississippi during 1999...so we can grow, as a people, by
having been in his presence   Somehow, knowing Andy is at the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting, the credibility of their work just seems to be
higher!

Larry S. Anderson, Ed.D.                              LSA1@Ra.MsState.Edu
Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Technology & Education       Voice: (601) 325-2281
Founder, National Center for Technology Planning      Fax: (601) 325-7599
                    Mississippi State University
Chair, Council for Education Technology              State of Mississippi
         My personal home page URL-- http://www2.msstate.edu/~lsa1
                    NCTP web page -- http://www.nctp.com

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 06:35:26 -0800 (PST)
From: Andy Carvin <acarvin@gsn.org>
Subject: website announcement: From Sideshow to Genocide

**** Website Announcement ****

>From Sideshow to Genocide: 
Tales of the Cambodian Holocaust
by Andy Carvin

http://edweb.gsn.org/sideshow

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On January 7, 1979, 20 years ago this week, three years of horror came to an
end in Cambodia. On that day, Vietnamese troops roared into the Cambodian
capital of Phnom Penh, displacing the communist Khmer Rouge government
that had ruled Cambodia since April 17, 1975. The Vietnamese, despite
being hardened by 30 years of war, were truly shocked at what they
discovered in Cambodia: an entire country dismantled and displaced, with
millions of Cambodians forced to work in agricultural labor camps. There
were no more schools, no offices or businesses; money and family
relationships were totally banned. And throughout the countryside,
Cambodia was pockmarked by sunken depressions of dirt, as if hell itself
had sucked in cavities of earth in the hopes of devouring the world above
it. As the world soon discovered, these earthen depressions were indeed
the stuff of hell, for each marked the spot of another mass grave: the
graves of the hundreds of thousands of Cambodians slaughtered by their own
countrymen. 

In the short span of time from April 1975 to January 1979, the Khmer Rouge
managed to starve and murder as many as two million Cambodians - two out
of every seven people in a country no larger than the state of Missouri.
In the 20 years since, little has been done to seek justice in the memory
of those who died. This past year, Pol Pot, mastermind of the genocide,
died in his sleep of an apparent heart attack. His three senior henchman,
Ieng Sary, Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea, will probably continue their long
retirement with no serious likelihood of ever feeling the firm grasp of
justice. It is as if the world would rather forgive and forget rather than
face up to the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge.

In honor of the two million Cambodians killed by the Khmer Rouge and
the countless others whose lives were destroyed by their policies, I would
like to present a new website:

>From Sideshow to Genocide: 
Tales of the Cambodian Holocaust
http://edweb.gsn.org/sideshow

This website is a virtual history of the Cambodian genocide, covering
events in Cambodia from the turn of the century to the fall of the Khmer
Rouge in 1979. The website is divided into three main chapters. In
"Cambodia Before the Holocaust," visitors can explore the effects of the
Vietnam War and US Cold War policy in Cambodia. "The Khmer Rouge Years"
covers the bloody Khmer Rouge regime and its relentless oppression of
Cambodian citizens. "Survivor Stories" recounts the tales of Cambodians
who managed to escape the Khmer Rouge, written in their own words.
Sideshow also includes a guide for online resources related to Cambodia,
the Vietnam War, holocaust studies and other subjects. In the coming
months, the website will also include a collection of lesson plans for use
in schools as well as information on current events in Cambodia. 

Over a year in the making, From Sideshow to Genocide is designed as an
educational resource for schools and the general public. However, it
should be noted that the subject matter might be somewhat graphic for
younger audiences. I highly recommend that students view this website with
their families or teachers and discuss the issues raised here in order to
better understand the gravity of the events surrounding the Khmer Rouge
genocide. It is all too easy for genocide in all of its evil forms to seem
distant and unreal to those who have not experienced it. Therefore it is
my hope that this website will help eliminate the disconnect to these
events and allow all of us to bear witness. 

Please feel free to share this invitation with your friends and
colleagues. The more who know, the harder it will be to forget.



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