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“Je ne pourrai jamais pardonner. Pour moi le pardon est très intime.
Seuls les politiques s'arrogent le droit de gracier ou de pardonner au nom de tous - ce qui est inconcevable pour un crime de masse ou un génocide. Je ne crois pas à la réconciliation par décret. Et tout ce qui se résout trop vite m'effraie. C'est la pacification de l'âme qui amène la réconciliation et non l'inverse.
Je crois à la pédagogie plus qu'à la justice. Je crois au travail dans le temps, au travail du temps. Je veux comprendre, expliquer, me souvenir - dans cet ordre plus précisément.”
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“But I’ve never seen a free exchange. A gift is something else. I lived for four years in a society without currency, and I never felt that the absence of money made injustice easier to bear. And I can’t forget that the very idea of value had disappeared. Nothing could be estimated, or esteemed, anymore—not human life or anything else. But to assess something, to evaluate it, doesn’t necessarily mean to have contempt for it or to destroy it. Nothing”
Rithy Panh, The Elimination: A survivor of the Khmer Rouge confronts his past and the commandant of the killing fields

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