April 7, 2008

• Fluff It's Not

  I was going to write a very light hearted blog about what I did this weekend but I guess it'll be saved for a later date. I was reading CNN (I'm a news junkie) and this article popped up: Survivor Recalls Horrors of Cambodian Genocide
  
  I'm not sure how many of my readers know but I'm Cambodian and my parents are refugees who came here in 1981. I know only some of the horrors that they went through their stories. They lost so many friends and family I cannot even fathom the ordeal that they went through. I haven't even lost a friend or relative and feel very blessed.
  
  Anywhoo, the article goes on to question the survivor if tactics that the US are using to interrogate people like waterboarding torture? He replied yes.  Does the means justify the end? Who makes that decision that John Smith is a prospective terrorist and therefore must be tortured to get valuable information? What happens when people are wrong and innocent people are tortured?
  
  I have no answers to theses questions but to pray for a better future and work to make it so.

  Edit: I've never realized how limited I am in writing what I'm thinking and feeling and putting it on a blog. I feel especially frustrated in writing about my feelings about my past and how I feel about it now. So, here's the Cliff Notes/bottom line /written from the gut version.

  I am two sides about using waterboarding techniques to interrogate prisoners about what they may or may not know. My only reservation about using these torture techniques are the innocents. I cannot imagine being tortured because someone "thinks" I may know something that "may or may not" happen. I also think it's appaling that the CNN article will use pictures of dead Cambodian skulls as one of the main pages on their sites. I cannot help but think that one of those skulls could be one of my many lost relatives. It is a sight I do not wish to see without warning.
  

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