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Catholics in crossfire again
Abortion-rights groups try to boot Vatican out of U.N.
By Mary Jo Anderson
©2000WorldNetDaily.com
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17451
Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson is demanding that Vice President Al Gore repudiate two "anti-Catholic" groups that are calling for the eviction of the Holy See from the United Nations.
The National Abortion Rights Action League and the Women Leaders Online, both groups enthusiastically endorsing Gore for president, are supporting "See Change," a campaign to oust the Vatican from the United Nations. Since 1964, the Vatican has had "permanent observer" status at the U.N. -- enabling it to play an active role and vote with other countries at U.N. conferences, but not in the General Assembly.
Representatives of various nations are gathered at the United Nations in preparation for June's "Beijing +5" Special Session of the General Assembly, entitled, "Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the Twenty-First Century."
In the midst of deliberations over how to globally implement its "Platform for Action" -- which had stalled over language that would make abortion and sexual orientation universal human rights -- the abortion advocacy group Catholics for a Free Choice held a press conference outlining its "See Change" campaign to have the Holy See lose its status as a Non-member State Permanent Observer. NARAL and Women Leaders Online are enthusiastically supporting Catholics for a Free Choice's denunciation of the Vatican.
The term Holy See stands for the central authority of the Roman Catholic Church, which includes the tiny sovereign State of Vatican City.
"As a Catholic, I am appalled that Al Gore has courted the support of two groups trying to throw the Vatican out of the United Nations," Nicholson said. "See Change's anti-Catholic goal is to evict the Vatican from the U.N., to silence the voice of Pope John Paul and to prevent one billion Catholics from speaking up for morality and justice at the world's most prominent international forum," Nicholson said.
"Does Al Gore agree with these anti-Catholic goals? If not, why does he refuse to stand up and repudiate them? Why doesn't Gore reject the endorsements of these anti-Catholic groups?
"The pattern here is disturbing," Nicholson added. "First, Al Gore and Hillary Clinton insulted Jewish Americans by kissing the ring of Al Sharpton, a racist and anti-Semite whose words and deeds have led to the deaths of Jews, blacks and others. Then Gore accepts the endorsement of NARAL, a group trying to diminish the Vatican."
As one of the nation's most powerful pro-abortion special interest groups, NARAL's endorsement of Gore was expected, especially since Gore continues to support the controversial practice of partial birth abortion -- called "infanticide" by Democratic Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
In an election year that has witnessed several attempts to claim the Catholic vote, the response of candidates to the attempt to remove the Vatican is being closely watched.
Tuesday, at the U.N. headquarters in New York, under the sponsorship of the United States mission to the U.N., Catholics for a Free Choice spokeswoman Frances Kissling claimed she had gathered the signatures of 400 organizations to be given to the U.N.
Anika Rahman, of an associated abortion rights group, Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, said the Vatican's position at the United Nations was analogous to giving a U.N. seat to the Politburo.
Rahman contends the Vatican does not qualify as a sovereign state in international law and therefore is not entitled to its deliberative status -- even though it is recognized as a sovereign state by 177 nations, issues passports, has its own postal system, legal territory and resident citizens. Territorial size is not a factor in determining sovereignty, counter Vatican supporters.
"In the context of the international meetings sponsored by the United Nations to promote women, the Holy See has taken positions that are antithetical to women's rights," a press release from the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy stated.
Critics of the "See Change" campaign point out the obvious -- that the real target is not to determine the sovereignty of the Vatican, but to silence its pro-life voice in the U.N.
Addressing the press at the U.N. on Wednesday, Focus on the Family, Mary Ellen Bork, Family Research Council and Rabbi Yehuda Levin of Jews for Morality all expressed their support of the Vatican's presence at the U.N., and denounced Kissling's "See Change" coalition calling for U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to demote the Vatican to a Non-Governmental Organization.
Rabbi Levin compared the assault on the Catholic Church to the assault on the Jews.
"Half a century ago, my family was the victim of a movement which wanted to rid the world of Jews, and Jewish teachings and Jewish values. Today, the extremists seek to disallow and disenfranchise the Catholic community and their ideas. Often it is the Catholic presence which reflects our traditional Jewish teaching on respect for life and family. I call upon the U.N. and her members to reject this censorship, reject the bigotry, and reject this hate of the Vatican and of the Jewish pro-life and family [traditions] it expresses. Sixty years ago our people asked, 'Where were you for the Jews?' Today we ask the world, 'Where are you for the Catholics?'"
Catholics for a Free Choice graphically counters these arguments:
"From opposing condoms to halt the spread of AIDS, to decrying the use of emergency contraception for refugee victims of rape, the Holy See misuses its special status to erect real obstacles to the promotion of women's health and well-being, despite the contention of resolutions introduced in the U.S. Congress. The resolutions, introduced by several anti-choice members of Congress ... oppose any effort to review the status of the Holy See at the U.N. and laud the role played by the Holy See at the U.N."
Austin Ruse, president of Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, announced vigorous support for the resolutions before the U.S. House and Senate calling for U.S. endorsement of the continued presence of the Holy See at the UN.
"These will be historic documents," noted Ruse, pointing out that it will be the first ever U.S. resolution in support of the Vatican. Ruse found a ready ally when he approached Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., about sponsoring a resolution. Sen. Bob Smith, R-N.H. and Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J. have joined the sponsorship of the resolutions. Ruse distributed to the press a "Declaration of Support of the Holy See at the United Nations" written by Princeton Professor, Robert George and William Saunders of the Family Research Council. The declaration has been signed by 1,015 NGOs from 44 countries --overwhelming support for the Vatican as the voice of traditional Western morality, family values and civic standards.
Robert L. Maginnis, director of national security and foreign affairs for the Family Research Council, pointed out that the U.S. State Department, in a 1998 report, praised the Catholic Church for its human rights efforts.
"The drive to expel the Vatican from the U.N. is obviously intended to intimidate pro-life delegations (to the Beijing +5 conference)," said Maginnis. "If any offensive move to oust the Vatican delegation from the U.N. succeeds, Family Research Council will call upon Congress to reassess American participation in the world organization."
Mary Ellen Bork, wife of Judge Robert Bork and Director of the Catholic Campaign for America, said, "Kissling is a letterhead organization funded by the Playboy Foundation."
Kissling has long quarreled with the Catholic Church's teaching on abortion. Her funding is drawn from population-control interests and abortion rights foundations, including Playboy and Ted Turner Foundations.
Her group, Catholics for a Free Choice, is an NGO at the U.N. And even though the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has said that no group promoting abortion is entitled to use the term "Catholic" in its name, the United Nations declined the Vatican's request that the U.N. ask Kissling to delete "Catholics" from her organization's name in its application for NGO status at the U.N.
Abortion rights groups are openly frustrated with the Vatican's defense of national sovereignty, the family, parental rights, and the pre-born during the Beijing +5 "PrepCom" now in progress. They claim the Holy See is "obstructing" the implementation of abortion and sexual orientation as a "universal human right" which activists want codified in international law. Although the Beijing "Platform for Action" is theoretically non-binding on nations, the U.N. is calling for "international monitoring" of the progress nations are making in implementing the provisions of the "Platform."
Members of Congress who sit on the advisory board of the Women Leaders Online include Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y. and former Rep. Geraldine Ferraro, D-N.Y.

Mary Jo Anderson is a contributing
Libertarian Party Press Releases
December 29, 2000
Town tries to 'snob-zone' God by banning prayer meetings in home
http://www.lp.org/press/archive.php?function=view&record=173
WASHINGTON, DC -- A town in Connecticut that has banned a family from holding prayer meetings in its home is improperly using zoning laws to squash religious liberty, the Libertarian Party charged today.
"No American town should be able to snob-zone God out of existence," said the party's national director, Steve Dasbach. "If zoning laws can be used as an excuse to ban organized prayer in a private home, then the First Amendment's protection of religious liberty doesn't, well, have a prayer."
In late November, the New Milford Zoning Commission ordered Robert and Mary Murphy to immediately stop holding weekly prayer meetings and Bible studies in their single-family home.
The Murphys had been conducting the meetings -- which were attended by two dozen or fewer people -- since 1995. But the Zoning Commission said it had determined that such gatherings were prohibited under the town's zoning laws, and threatened to take legal action against the Murphys if the meetings did not stop.
In December, the American Center for Law and Justice filed a lawsuit against the Milford town government, charging that the action violated the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments -- and infringed on the Murphys' constitutional rights of free speech, religious expression, and freedom of assembly.
However, American families shouldn't need lawsuits to protect their right to pray in their own homes, said Dasbach.
"In America, you should have the absolute right to pray in your own home, and to invite your neighbors over to share in your prayers, without having to get permission from local government bureaucrats," he said. "In fact, a zoning board should have no more control over when and where you pray than they should over which God you pray to.
"The only exception to that rule would be if the prayer meeting directly infringed on the property rights of the Murphys' neighbors -- and that does not seem to be the case here."
Unfortunately, the incident in New Milford is just one more example of how local zoning boards try to micromanage peoples' property, said Dasbach. Some other zoning law outrages over the past few years:
* Highland Park, New Jersey fined a rabbi for having a typewriter in his home. (It violated a ban on home offices.)
* Floosmoor, Illinois banned pickup trucks from private driveways.
* Alexandria, Virginia threatened to condemn 22 homes unless the owners fixed chipped paint on their windowsills and doorframes.
* Coral Gables, Florida mandated Spanish tiles for the roofs of any children's playhouses in families' backyards.
* Laguna Beach, California prohibited a family from moving into their new home because it was painted the wrong shade of white. The city also prosecuted a woman for building a picket fence that was six inches too high.
In each case, the problem is the same, said Dasbach: Zoning laws gave local government bureaucrats vast power over homes and properties -- and that power was inevitably used to violate peoples' rights.
"The problem is not that zoning boards abuse their power; it's that they have the power to abuse," he said. "As long as these bureaucrats have such power, incidents like the one in New Milford are bound to occur."
What's the solution?
"Take away zoning boards' power to micromanage the use of private property," suggested Dasbach. "That would strip them of their power to violate property rights -- and their power to violate people's religious liberty. Then, no American would ever be banned from practicing religion in the privacy of their home, as happened in New Milford.
"The fact is, the power of local zoning bureaucrats should never be stronger than the right of private property, the power of the U.S. Constitution, or the importance of prayer in people's hearts."

A New Century of Martyrs: Anti-Christian Intolerance
Chuck Colson
Chairman of Prison Fellowship Ministries
http://www.crosswalk.com/news/1143210.html
On June 6, Martin Burnham, an American missionary, died in a battle between his Islamic kidnappers and Filipino troops sent to rescue him. Burnham, thus, becomes the newest member of what the Te Deum, an ancient hymn, calls "the white-robe army of the martyrs" -- an army that, according to a recent estimate, is a staggering 70 million strong.
But what's even more staggering is that, according to the same estimate, 45 million, or two-thirds of all Christian martyrs, died in the twentieth century. These estimates are contained in a new book, The New Persecuted: Inquiries into Anti-Christian Intolerance in the New Century of Martyrs. It's written by an Italian journalist, Antonio Socci. The estimates are derived from sources such as Oxford's World Christian Encyclopedia.
Many of the martyrs died in places like the former Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. But there are others, lesser known places where Christians were killed for their faith, like Turkey, where 1.5 million Armenian Christians were murdered.
And the killing continues. Socci estimates that an average of 160,000 Christians have been killed every year since 1990 in places like Algeria, Nigeria, Sudan, and Pakistan.
Socci writes that the "global persecution of Christianity is still in progress but in most cases is ignored by the mass media and Christians in the west."
What's not being ignored is his book, which has many critics up in arms. For writing about persecution and identifying Islamic extremism as the "main danger" to Christians worldwide, Socci has been accused of promoting anti-Islamic prejudice and other transgressions. Other critics question Socci's figures, saying that many of those he's calling martyrs died in "conflicts that had little to do with religion."
Even if Socci were off by two-thirds -- and I don't think he is -- that still leaves 15 million martyrs this past century, more than enough to warrant the label "persecution." How many Christians have to die before the world takes notice?
Others argue that by portraying the twentieth century as a century of massacres, Socci diminishes the significance of the Holocaust. But as Ted Olsen of Christianity Today noted, talking about the millions of Christians killed for their faith doesn't diminish the evil of the Holocaust anymore than noting "the millions who died during Stalin's purges."
What's really bothering many of Socci's critics is the idea of Christians as victims instead of victimizers. Like commentator Tommaso Debenedetti, they see the book as part of a "right wing plot" to "deflect accusations of intolerance" away from Christians.
For some of these critics, even if there is persecution, Christians had it coming. That's why Olsen is right when he asks, "How long until people start arguing that the murder of millions of Christians worldwide isn't that big a deal because of the Crusades and Inquisitions?"
Well, Martin Burnham's death is definitely a big deal, as are those of other Christians who have died for their faith. For the sake of our suffering brethren, we must arouse public opinion and the power of civilized governments against all Christian persecution: the kind that prompts the killing and the kind that prompts the willingness to turn a blind eye.
For further reading:
* Rory Carroll, "New book says Christians suffered most," The Guardian (London), 4 June 2002.
* Ted Olsen, "Weblog: Anti-Persecution Book Said to Denigrate Holocaust, Muslims, and Immigrants," Christianity Today, 4 June 2002.
* Ted Olsen, "Martin Burnham Went Out Serving with Gladness," Christianity Today, 10 June 2002.
* Visit the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom's website. You can read its annual report on religious persecution. (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).
* Vincent Carroll and David Shiflett, Christianity on Trial (Encounter Books, 2001).
Copyright 2002 Prison Fellowship Ministries. All Rights Reserved.

The Anti-Christian Liberal Union
by Jennifer King, Managing Editor
August 19, 2002
http://www.american-partisan.com/cols/2002/king/qtr3/0819.htm
"The Heretical Housewife"
As noted in a Wall Street Journal editorial this week, the ACLU appears to finally have found a religion it can tolerate. The organization is jumping into the fracas at the University of North Carolina, where incoming freshmen are mandated to read the Koran - or, at least part of it. Objectionable parts, like those used by Wahhabi madmen to justify mass murder, have been delicately excised.
The students are also given liturgical CD's and asked to contemplatively reflect upon Islam and its teachings. Can anyone doubt the hysterical reaction of the atheistic Left if Bible study was a required course? Especially if accompanied by CD's of Gregorian chants and songs extolling Jesus Christ. On the surface, at least, it appears a tad odd that the ACLU - which files suit at a whiff of Christianity - should side with the University on mandated Islam.
The alignment of the Left with the Islamists is really not a strange one, though, because they share a defining characteristic - a virulent hatred of America and the West. Although President Bush keeps assuring us that Islam is a religion of peace, everywhere we look we find evidence to the contrary. Palestinians pour out into the streets, frenziedly dancing and throwing candy exuberantly to youngsters every time an Israeli grandmother or infant is killed by an Islamakazi murderer. Arab children, in an odd travesty of summer camp, were photographed last week wearing matching Tshirts and camouflage face paint while proudly brandishing automatic weapons. Other photographs showed the children painstakingly demolishing a replica of an Israeli settlement, and burning a trumped-up American flag - with stars of David replacing the usual ones. The same week, at a support rally for Saddam Hussein held near Nablus, ranting participants pledged to “kill every American.”
On the 9th of August, Sanaa Republic of Yemen Television broadcast a sermon live from the Grand Mosque in Sanaa. Shaykh Akram Abd-al-Razzaq al-Ruqayhi prayed to Allah, “O God, destroy the Jews€|; O God, destroy the Christians€|.freeze the blood in their veins.” On the same day, in Saudi Arabia, Saudi TV carried a different sermon - this time from Shaykh Usamah Abdallah Khayyat. Khayyat prayed, “O God, help the mujahidin in Palestine, Kashmir and Chechyna. O God, destroy the tyrant Jews.” In Quatar, the official TV station carries yet another sermon, delivered live from the Umar Bin-al-Kattab Mosque in Doha. Shaykh Anwar al-Badawi prayed to his God, “Islam does not know terrorism€|.it encourages martyrdom against aggressors€|O God, destroy the Jews; O God, pour out your anger on them. O God, destroy the usurper Jews and the vile Christians.”
Don’t these words resound with love and goodwill towards their fellow men? Don’t they bespeak a willingness to live tolerantly with people of other faiths? What’s more, the words and the open actions bespeak a kind of mental disconnect with the real world. Don’t the Palestinians realize that the bloodthirsty celebrations at the murder of noncombatants look positively bestial to civilized people? Even the Nazis tried to cover up their atrocities, realizing that the wholesale machine gunning of unarmed naked women and children might just be considered a wee bit savage. Apparently, they don’t teach that etiquette at terrorist summer training camp.
In many ways, it appears the West has failed to plumb the depth of the fanatical hatred directed towards it. The Reverend Franklin Graham recently asked a serious question about why - if the terrorist’s view of Islam is wrong and they are indeed “hijacking” the religion - there aren’t more Shaykhs speaking out about it. For this, Graham was excoriated by those on the Left. But Graham is right. The silence from the Muslim world on atrocities perpetuated in the name of Islam has been deafening, even before 9/11. After the intention murder of 3,000 American citizens, many of whom were immigrants and a group of whom were Muslims, it stands in stark relief.
There are some who postulate that the Arab behavior is geared towards provoking the West into waging war against it - thereby igniting Osama’s wished for worldwide conflict. Nevertheless, today’s civilization cannot stand back and let a bunch of crazed fanatics take over the world and kill all the Jews anymore than it’s predecessor could in the 1940s. Anyone who poses a threat to freedom, peace and worldwide stability must be deprived of the power to do so. Perhaps then, a message of tolerance and peace - rather than hatred and divisiveness - can be preached from the mosques and madrassahs.

Wonder whose side the ACLU will take then?
© 2002 Jennifer King
The Fate of Persecuted Christians
A talk by Resurrection parishioner, Patricia McRannolds on the occasion of the International Day of Prayer for Persecuted Christians, November 16, 1997.
http://www.serve.com/sonrise/silence/intro.htm
160,000 believers were martyred in 1996 . . .not 160,000 in this century, but in 1996. Countless others were subjected to unimaginable horrors. More Christians were martyred in the 20th century than in the previous 19. Sudan, China, Ethiopia, Kuwait & Egypt are just a few of the many countries in which atrocities have been documented.
When Michael Horowitz, a Jewish scholar and columnist for the Wall Street Journal was asked why he is working so hard to help Christians in far-flung corners of the world, he said: "There is a man living with us who is the embodiment of Christian Faith, . . . and I am in awe of it. He is from the Ethiopian Evangelical church where he is the senior pastor. He is trying to get asylum into the U.S. and is neeting every possible roadblock you can imagine. Here is a man who has been jailed over 25 times for his faith and he's been tortured. On one occassion, he was hanged upside down and hot oil poured on his feet. This is a man of abiding faith who will be tortured again and murdered if he is sent back to Ethiopia. But do you know what happened when we petitioned for asylum? The State Dept. sent a letter to the Immigration Service and said,"There is no persecution of Christians in Ethiopia."
When Michael Horowitz's original article, regarding this issue, was published in the Wall Street Journal, he expected an outpouring of support from outraged believers. There was hardly a whisper. He then wrote a letter to the 150 leading Mission boards in the U.S. He said to them, "If I had written a story about anti-semitism, I would have been overwhelmed with support from the Christian Community. But when Christian persecution was involved, the Christian community seemed tongue-tied and embarassed. What a disgrace!!
In some places it amounts to mass murder. Nina Shea, author and international human-rights lawyer who has investigated the persecution of Christians for over ten years, has documented the abduction and death of more than one million Sudanese at the hands of the country's Islamis Fundamentalist government. In her book, In the Lion's Den, she wrote: Millions of American Christians pray in their churches each week oblivious to the fact that Christians in many parts of the world suffer brutal torture, arrest, imprisonment and even death . . .for no other reason than that they are Christian. The shocking untold story of our times is that more Christians have died this century, simply for being Christian, than in the first nineteen centuries after the birth of Christ. They have been persecuted and martyred before an unknowing, indifferent world and a largely silent Christian community.
Jeff Jacoby, an syndicated columnist for the Boston Globe, human rights activist and also a Jew, in describing the scope of the tragedy wrote .....the Nuba mountians in Sudan, which have had a Christian population since the 6th century, are littered with mass graves. Nuba women are systematically raped by Arab soldiers in order to produce non-Nuba offspring. There are reports, including from Catholic bishops, of crucifixions of Christians by the army. Muslim troops from northern Sudan have sold tens of thousnads of Christian children and women into slavery. Many have been branded or mutilated to prevent escape, many more have been tortured, brainwashed or starved until they convert to Islam. Pakistan's 1986 blasphemy law makes it a capital crime to insult the Prophet Mohammed by any imputation, innuendo or insinuation. The law has been used repeatedly to justify a reign of terror against Pakistani Christians.
This has been a century of unmatched Christian martyrdom. It began with the mass murder of Christians in Armenia, it is ending with the mass murder of Christians in Sudan. Then as now, the world looked away, even as it looked away during the most unspeakable mass murder of all .... the Holocaust.
Why has there been so much apathy among deeply committed believers? Many do not know about it. I found out because an article I read, in this past August's Readers Digest, disturbed me so much I decided I had to research it. As information came to me from many sources, reports of the atrocities my Christian brothers and sisters were suffering were so terrible I couldn't read the reports all the way through at first. Then I got mad!! I decided I had to get involved if only to help educate people about the situation. I talked about it in my faith sharing group and we all decided to get involved.
Many of our leaders, including some church leaders, have chosen to either ignore this issue or claim it doesn't exist. Some spiritual leaders label the situation, "politcal". Therefore, we, the believers, should not be concerned because in this country we believe in separation of church and state. Another reason why Christians may be unconcerned,is some believe that harsh suffering, even death, are inevitable for those who live and worship God in dangerous places. Perhaps persecution goes with the territory, so to speak. Despite the overwhelming evidence of atrocities, the attitude of the U.S. Govt. has been that the persecution of Christians doesn't exist. Through the work of Horowitz and others the truth is beginning to penetrate, attitudes are beginning to change. Members of Congress are becoming alarmed about reports of brutality and murder on foriegn soil. A House Resolution passed the fourth week of Sept. 1996 stating, more Christians have been martyred in the 20th century than in the past 19 combined. Michael Horowitz help draft the Wolf-Specter bill, which was introduced in Congess on May 20, 1997. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Frank Wolf and Senator Arlen Specter, is called the "Freedom from Religious Persecution Act of 1997". It imposes sanctions, including an end to all non-humanitarian aid, on regimes that either engage in or allow the persection of Christians and other religious minorities. The congressional debate was suppose to take place this fall. To date nothing has happened and Congress is "on vaction" until after the first of January!!!
We live in the world's most dominant country, one which could exercise tremendous pressure on other nations to bring an end to injustice. It will not act unless we force it to address these issues. We must remember, our government emanates from the people. Collectively, we are the government. If it implements evil policies, each of us is partially responsible for them. We are obligated to raise our voices when injustice is being condoned and encouraged. There is no greated injustice than when elected officals reward and support brutal regimes which kill and torture innocent people.
The International Day of Prayer for Persecuted Christians has a primary focus, to call people of all faiths to agree together in prayer to uphold those who are persecuted and to pray for the repentance and conversion of those who persecute.
OUR GREATEST TOOL IS PRAYER!!!!
In addition letters need to be sent to our politcal representatives telling them how you feel about this issue and telling them that, as your representative, you expect them to support the Wolf-Specter bill.Letters need to be sent to the editors of our local media urging improved coverage on this issue.
I pray that, in some way, we all join together to SHATTER THE SILENCE!!

Pol Pot's Nazi-style experiments
The nightmare legacy of the Killing Fields continues
Editor's note: Dispatches contributing editor Anthony C. LoBaido journeyed into the dark heart of Cambodia recently. His first person account of the Killing Fields revisited is featured in the June issue of the magazine, the sister off-line publication to WorldNetDaily. LoBaido has worked as a correspondent in Mexico, South Africa, Australia, Korea, Thailand and Cambodia.
By Anthony LoBaido
©1999WorldNetDaily.com
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17096
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- It is a scene as eerie as Hitler and Eva Braun's final moments inside a Berlin bunker a half-century ago. On Jan. 7, 1975, the clock strikes high noon at the notorious Tuol Sleng "S-21" prison.
The invading communist Vietnamese have sacked Phnom Penh. Kaing Kek Iev, Pol Pot's chief executioner at S-21, paces frantically around the prison -- a former high school converted by the Khmer Rouge into a house of horrors. The sound of gunfire and artillery fill the air. Outside, silent flashes of lightning light up the dark afternoon sky. As Yeats once wrote, "The center does not hold."
In one room, Kaing Kek Iev, (whose nom de guerre is "Duch") looks over a giant macabre stack of human skulls. In another room lay mountains of records -- notes Duch meticulously took down during the Khmer Rouge genocide enacted between 1975 and 1979. Scattered around the prison in dank cells are a few unlucky prisoners chained to their beds. Duch pours gasoline on as many of the records as he can and lights them on fire. He then executes the last remaining prisoners. These poor souls will not be among the 500,000 Cambodians the Khmer Rouge will force to march to the Thai border in a hasty and mass retreat in the wake of the invading enemy. The survivors will be put into Khmer-run camps until 1991. Top Khmer Rouge leaders will head to the rural town of Pailin, where they will soon garner a fortune mining rare jewels.
But Duch has other plans, and he heads for the Cardamom Mountains of Western Cambodia. The top administrator of S-21 soon passes undetected into Thailand, carrying with him a dark secret that remained unknown for over 20 years. But the truth is often difficult to keep buried forever and works to break apart even the heaviest of monoliths -- like the steady eroding power of water, wind and ice on the great mountains of the earth.
In the case of Pol Pot's Nazi-style experiments, the truth only recently emerged from five handwritten pages which survived the gasoline and matches of Duch's poor counter-intelligence work at S-21.
The dark secret Kaing Kek Iev ran off with so long ago has now come full circle. Duch reappeared this past May in Western Cambodia where he had been serving as a volunteer aid worker after becoming a born-again Christian. And although change is not always visible, the changes in Duch's personal morality have led him to identify the chain of command in Pol Pot's killing machine at S-21 and the Cheung Ek Killing Fields. Moreover, Duch has brought something far more horrific into the light for examination -- the Nazi-style experiments he and his cohorts performed on the internees at S-21.
Kaing Kek Iev has been many things in his life -- a professor, Khmer Rouge soldier, prisoner under the anti-Communist Cambodian King Sihanouk, administrator/executioner at S-21 and fugitive from justice. Now Duch has embarked on a new and perhaps the final phase of his life as the star witness in the upcoming Khmer Rouge genocide trails.
The trials will be conducted by the present Cambodian government. It is a government staffed by many Khmer Rouge defectors who still control loyal, private guerrilla armies deployed in the field.
Recent revelations show the Nazi-style experiments conducted at S-21 to be so barbaric, cruel and medieval in nature so as to make Dr. Josef Mengele shudder in horror.
"Dr. Mengele would give lollipops to small Jewish children before injecting their eyes with blue dye. Pol Pot's henchmen were not so polite," says Loyal Gould, the former chairman of the Baylor University Department of Journalism. Dr. Gould is the only English-speaking journalist in the world to have covered the Auschwitz Trials from start to finish.
"Certainly this kind of cruelty is the epitome of evil."
According to five of the 100,000 pages of forced "confessions" and prison records Duch accumulated while running S-21, the Nazi-style, pseudo-scientific human experiments included the following:
"A. A 17-year-old girl with her throat cut and stomach slashed, put in water from 7:55 p.m. until 9:20 a.m., when the body begins to float slowly to the top, which it reaches by 11 a.m."
"B. A 17-year-old girl bashed to death, then put in water as before, for the same period, but the body rises to the top at 1:17 p.m."
Most of the 17,000 Cambodians tortured and killed at S-21 were loyal Communist party cadres falsely accused of being CIA spies. They included the scientific, political, religious and educational elite of Khmer society.
S-21 served mainly as a torture chamber, while most of the final liquidation occurred at the Killing Fields of Cheung Ek outside of Phnom Penh.
In addition to running S-21, Duch (who is half-Chinese and half-Khmer), served as the head of SANTEBAL, the National Security machine of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime. Duch took over SANTEBAL in 1975 after the Khmer Rouge seized the government from the pro-U.S. Lon Nol. He immediately took 154 prisoners kept in a Phnom Penh chapel and transferred them to S-21.
Tuol Sleng could hold up to 1,500 prisoners, and this served the grand paranoia of Pol Pot frighteningly well. Pol Pot was obsessed with "enemies," both real and imagined, on the scale of Stalin.
Says one former Khmer Rouge soldier, "Pol Pot was afraid of a spider, so he shot at anything with more than two legs. He saw a CIA operative or collaborator hiding under every rock."
By 1977 Tuol Sleng had hired over 100 wardens, most of who were in their late teens and early twenties. These wardens tortured and executed women, children and babies with cruel efficiency.
For example, On July 1, 1977, Duch held "Women's Day" at S-21, killing 114 women. July 2, 1977 was "Children's Day," and saw 31 boys and 43 girls tortured and slaughtered. In October of that same year, S-21 set an all time single-day record by executing 418 people.
(Pol Pot referred to these victims as the refuse of the "Old Society." Upon seizing power in 1975, Pol Pot emptied Phnom Penh in seven days. He called the evacuees "New People" of "The Year Zero." His Maoist agrarian style restructuring of Cambodian society sought to raise up the poor or "base people.")
The murderous experiments and killings rolled on. In 1978, Duch oversaw the liquidation of 300 disaffected Khmer Rouge soldiers. The soldiers were not even interrogated -- they were summarily put to death to soothe the whims of Pol Pot. Some of the soldiers were hung upside down and had their heads placed in buckets of water.
In addition to running S-21, Duch controlled all the security prisons in Cambodia. He was especially brutal, yet clever -- often promising to release prisoners if they would confess their "crimes." Those who refused to talk to interrogators had their fingernails pulled out with pliers. Female prisoners were often stripped naked and then tortured. Some of them were raped, though the wardens who raped them were summarily put to death for this "breach of discipline and protocol."
In another strange twist, Nuon Chea, Pol Pot's second in command, (known as "Brother Number Two") ordered Duch to personally kill eight Westerners unlucky enough to have been sent to S-21. Duch obliged his superior. The killing of the Westerners -- hailing from the U.S., Australia and several European countries -- means that Duch could be extradited to any of those nations where he might face murder charges.
Duch was also personally required to kill several top Khmer Rouge leaders who had fallen into disfavor with Pol Pot. One of them, Von Vet, was killed and then buried by Duch. Soon after, Nuon Chea asked Pol Pot to exhume the body and photograph it for evidence that Von Vet had indeed been killed.
Not surprisingly, some of Duch's superiors worried about his meticulous note-taking skills. They asked him to cut back on the paper trail, as well as to save money on bullets in the execution process.
"We killed them [the S-21 prisoners] like a chicken," Duch said recently in an interview with the Far Eastern Economic Review. "We simply slit their throats."
Iem Chan, a sculptor who was recruited by the Khmer Rouge to work at Tuol Sleng between 1977 and 1979, recalls Duch as "an educated man and a nice talker." Iem Chan was required to make several sculptures of Pol Pot before being asked to turn his talents towards producing instruments of torture at S-21. Speaking of the men who ran S-21, and the pain and death they inflicted on the prisoners there he says, "If I ever met them again I would tear them to pieces."
Speaking of the dark goings-on at S-21, Dith Pran, the central character of the hit Hollywood film "The Killing Fields," says, "It is a challenge to investigative journalism to research and document the activities of the Khmer Rouge. We must tell America and the world what happened under Pol Pot."
Adds Loyal Gould, "The unrepentant Nazi doctors had two mantras at the Auschwitz Trials. Either 'I was just following orders,' or 'Progress demands sacrifice and our experiments changed the world.' In the dying days of World War II, the U.S. and Soviet troops both raced to Berlin in a quest to capture top Nazi doctors, scientists, advanced weapons and high altitude test data collected on the poor Jewish victims put in pressure chambers.
"Some of the Nazi scientists and doctors escaped justice at the Nuremberg and Auschwitz trials, and were given sanctuary in America. They would go on to work for NASA and the space program during the Cold War under a program called 'Operation Paper Clip.' But what was the madness behind Pol Pot's Nazi-style experiments?"
Pol Pot is sometimes compared to Adolf Hitler for a plethora of reasons. Both were hypochondriacs who once worked with their hands. Both were failed soldiers who liked small children. Both penned an epic book -- Hitler's "My Struggle" and Pol Pot's "Monarchy or Democracy?" Both committed suicide under murky circumstances. Both were said to have cast a "hypnotic effect" on all who heard them speak. Both accused Napoleon of acting "without moral feeling." Yet in the light of recent evidence unearthed by Duch's written records, the ultimate link between Pol Pot and Hitler may well be the Khmer Rouge's Nazi-style human experiments at S-21.
According to Son Nim, a former Khmer Rouge soldier and technician at S-21 now living as a semi-recluse on Koh Phi Phi (a tropical island in the Gulf of Thailand), the revelations of Duch's writings at S-21 are only the tip of the proverbial iceberg.
"There's a lot more to this story than meets the eye. People need to start asking questions about the CIA's MK-Ultra Mind and Population Control experiments and their role in Pol Pot's regime," he says.
"We know now that even in the early 1990s, Pol Pot was flying around Thailand and Cambodia in state of the art helicopter gunships, inspecting Khmer Rouge strongholds in Western Cambodia and preparing to retake power in Phnom Penh when the proper time made itself known. What scares me even more is that even today the Nazi agenda of cloning, eugenics, euthanasia, and population control continues -- both in Cambodia and in the West."
As for his own role in the Khmer Rouge's Nazi-style genocide, Duch turns to his newfound Christian faith for the courage to tell the world what really happened at S-21.
"It is OK," he says. "They [Khmer Rouge loyalists and the Cambodian and international courts] can have my body. Jesus Christ has my soul. It is important that this history be understood."
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Anthony C. LoBaido is an international correspondent for WorldNetDaily.



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