Klaus, you said:
"We need to learn to treat each other with respect" - OK.
"We need to learn to forgive and forget" - on this, there are also
quite different opinions. To forgive and to forget are two quite
different things.
In Cambodia, there are some who just want to "forget and forgive."
But others go with what the Documentation Center of Cambodia says in
almost all of it s mailings:
MEMORY
& JUSTICE
“...a
society cannot know itself if it does not have an accurate
memory of its own history.”
Before the forgiving it is necessary to see what happened, and what
went wrong. And to avoid repetitions which have shown to lead to
wrong results.
Norbert Klein
Cambodia