5. Meet: Prach Ly
• Age 23, a Cambodian-American
rapper from Long Beach, California
• Sound bites from old Khmer Rouge
propaganda speeches to create
what he calls an "autobiography,"
reciting stories he'd heard from his
refugee family to deliver a blistering
history lesson about Cambodia's
genocide. (From Battambang)
• A copy to CM1 Cambodian radio .
• Asiaweek reporter tracked Prach Ly
down to let him know his album
was No. 1 in Cambodia:
77. Back to the Lesson:
• Big question of the day: Do these conventions
work?
– Who is the enforcement wing of the UN?
– What is the Security Council?
– With as many as 10 million dead since WWII from
genocide, what is the next step? What do we do
to prevent these kinds of atrocities?
78. Big Questions:
• Mentality: If it’s not on our shores, why
should we stop it?
– Is there an American genocide brewing?
– Any states that border us have problems with
ethnic, political or religious killings?
– Dissident groups? Internal struggles? Offshore
prisons? Detainees?