Representatives of the ‘NEVER AGAIN’Association have participated in a week-long series of meetings and
discussions held in Phnom Penh on the occasion of the Cambodian Victory Over
Genocide Day and the UN International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The participants paid tribute to the victims of
the totalitarian Khmer Rouge regime at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum
(former S-21 prison) and the Killing Fields at Choeung Ek.
The programme also included a visit to the
Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, known as the Khmer Rouge
Tribunal, and discussions with its high-level officials.
The international expert conference entitled
‘Dealing with the Past: Engaging in the Present’ was organized by the Heinrich
Boell Foundation Cambodia Office, the German Agency for International
Cooperation, and the One Earth Future Foundation on 20-27 January.
Natalia Sineaeva discussed the challenges of
Holocaust commemoration and the experiences of the Museum of the History of the
Polish Jews POLIN during the panel on ‘The Role of Museums and
Institutions in Genocide Education’ together with Visoth Chhay (Director of
Tuol Sleng Museum), Andreas Ljungholm (Raoul Wallenberg Institute) and Keo
Duong (Bophana Centre). The panel was moderated by Dara Bramson (New York
Museum of Jewish Heritage / Auschwitz Jewish Center).
Rafal Pankowski presented the activities of the
‘NEVER AGAIN’ Association in the field of monitoring hate speech and hate
crime. He was also one of the keynote speakers during a special session on
‘Dealing with the Legacy of the Holocaust’ introduced by the German Ambassador
to the Kingdom of Cambodia, Dr Ingo Karsten.
- ‘I am deeply moved by the visit to the
killing fields in Cambodia’ - said Rafal Pankowski. - ‘The message of NEVER
AGAIN is indeed universal and we look forward to continued cooperation with our
new partners in the field of commemoration, peace building and human rights
education.’
The ‘NEVER AGAIN’ Association will be
represented by Rafal Pankowski during a debate on xenophobia held in
Cambridge (UK) on 28 January. Adam Bodnar, Poland’s Ombudsman (Human Rights
Commissioner) who has been a ‘NEVER AGAIN’ activist, will join the panel,
too. Other speakers at the conference, organized by the Cambridge University
Polish Society, include former Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski and current
Deputy Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
Other presentations of ‘NEVER AGAIN’
Association activities and research findings planned for February include
forthcoming seminars at the Polish University in London (PUNO) as well as at
St. Antony’s College (University of Oxford).
The ‘NEVER AGAIN’ Association is
a Warsaw-based anti-racist educational and monitoring organization
established in 1996.
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