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A McNair

Scholars

Journey

Sophal Ear, PhD

Assistant Professor

US Naval Postgraduate School

4 August 2011Faculty Club of UC Berkeley

The views expressed do not reflect the views of the Department of Navy or the Department of Defense.


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Way back in 1994

The 3rdcohort of the McNair Scholars

program at UC Berkeley formed


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Good old Dwinelle Hall


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Picture taken on the day of my talk at

the McNair Symposium, Summer 1995


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I hope that if you concludeanything at all upon reading this

thesis, it is this: more needs to be

written on the Cambodian

economy.


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Universities are based

on the illimitablefreedomof the human

mind for here we are

not afraid to follow

truthwherever it maylead, nor to tolerate any

error so long as reason

is left free to combat it.


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Fast-Forward to 2011


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And on 18March 2011, I

received aletter from

James Rogers.


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This was more planning than the

US invasion of Iraq!


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(I can say this with some authority

because I teach courses to junior

military officers on how to rebuildcountries after conflict.)


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Rewind to a couple of months

The June 4-10 print edition of


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No less than the

act itself, the

politics ofgenocide can be

heartbreaking.

Yours Truly

So genocide will

be something Ill

touch on today.


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But how did I get to where I am?


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A McNair Scholars Journey in Five Acts

1. Cambodia

2. Vietnam

3. France

4. America

5. Peoples Republic of Berkeley


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I had six minutes to tell my story.

Today, I have a little more time to

reflect on my familys and my own

journey.


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MY WIFE, 8 MONTHS PREGNANT

MOM

BILL

GATES


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Act 1: Cambodia


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There are no American combat

troops in Cambodia. There are noAmerican combat advisers in

Cambodia. There will be no

American combat troops or

advisers in Cambodia. We will aidCambodia. Cambodia is the Nixon

doctrine in its purest form.

President Richard Nixon,November 1971


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April 17th, 1975

Phnom Penh, Cambodia


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Evacuation of 2 million people

from Phnom Penh in three days


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Once upon a time ... there was a regime so evil that it created an

antisocietywhere torturewas currency and music, books, and lovewere abolished. This regime ruled for four years and murdered

nearly 2 million of its citizens, a quarter of the population.

CAMBODIA

Michael Paterniti (2009)


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Up to 16 000


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One day in late-1975, circa

sunset


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On the third day of our journey

towards Vietnam


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1935-1975


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Act 2: Vietnam


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A VIETNAMESE CITIZEN,

A GOOD SAMARITAN


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MOM

MEMY UNCLE AND AUNT


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Act 3: France

A FRENCH CITIZEN,

A GOOD SAMARITAN


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A GOOD SAMARITAN


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Act 4: America


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ACT 5


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To those whommuch is given,

much is

expected.

--John F. Kennedy


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M.S., M.A., Ph.D.


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There is no more noble endeavourthan the fight for social and global

justice, and for peace and

development.

Mark Malloch Brown


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The Responsibility to Protectis a new

international security and human rights

norm to address the international

communitys failure to prevent and stop

genocides, war crimes, ethnic cleansing

and crimes against humanity.


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HOLOCAUST: 11-17MILLION


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RWANDA: 800,000-1,000,000


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BOSNIA: 200,000+


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DARFUR: 300,000+


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Returning to Cambodia and the

Khmer Rouge Tribunal


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TUOL SLENGS DIRECTOR, DUCH, CONFESSED

AT KHMER ROUGE TRIBUNAL IN CAMBODIA, 2009.


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VERDICT: GUILTY

DEATHS: 12,273+

SENTENCE: 35 YEARS

(REDUCED TO 19 FOR

TIME ALREADY SERVED)

APPEALING.

MADOFF: 150 YEARS


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KILLED: 0; US$65 BILLION FRAUD

NOT APPEALING.


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My mom, Cam Youk Lim

June 1936-October 2009


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A photomosaic of

m mother ho had


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my mother, who had

seven years of

formal schooling,

spoke fivelanguages,

and saved lives.


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20 Lives Saved


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Steven Sophal Ear, born March 2009


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