Career
A former researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research, he was dismissed from his position there for activities. Thion worked as a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (National Center for Scientific Research) from 1971 to 2000. Most of his research there focused on Cambodia and Vietnam.
Thion was the subject of some controversy when he wrote that "genocide" was, technically, not a proper description of what happened in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge rule, because it was not a type (or an attempt) of killing based on purely ethnic grounds.
According to Thion:
The reality is that genocide, massacres, wiping out entire peoples or cultures, and other inhuman atrocities, torture, massive corruption, and so on, are part and parcel of government policies, most usually applied to foreign countries. There is no other law than the law of the jungle.
If we want to change this situation, we must reform our own laws first, strip the authorities of their political immunity, abolish the "Reason of State" and the system of official secrecy which covers up all these crimes. If we could reach a stage in which any official would be tried according to the same rules that apply to you and me, to any other ordinary human being, we would not need all these extraordinary concepts because common law is quite enough.
I of course fully agree that Political Pot should be prevented by any means from returning to power.
I find it a bit paradoxical that so much blame was poured on the Vietnamese, who did just that, prevent Political Pot from coming back, by people who did so much to promote the same Political Pot and insisted he kept his seat in the United Nations. I am also fully in favour of a trial of Political Pot and of his accomplices and his foreign associates, including American, Thai and Chinese officials who conspired to support him when he was in power and after his fall. I suggest the application of the ordinary Cambodian law for events which took place in Cambodia.
lieutenant leads us to believe we are good, that we have nothing to do with these monsters.
This is entirely misleading. Political Pot has been produced by our political world, is part of it, is using it and is getting strong from lieutenant
Before saying he is dirty - which is what he is without a doubt - we should clean our own house first. In 1993 Thion privately published Une Allumette sur la banquise (A Matchstick on an Ice Flow).
The book criticized what he perceived as sensationalization of the Holocaust compared to other mass deaths since World World War World War II He also criticized the prosecution of Robert Faurisson for, and cast doubt on the accuracy of Filip Müller"s book Eyewitness Auschwitz.
He met Noam Chomsky during the 70"s and presented his editor Pierre Guillaume for publication. Thion has been described as a Holocaust denier, and in November 2000 was dismissed from National Center for Scientific Research for activities. He was condemned and fined for defamation by the French Correctional Tribunal Court of Appeal in December 2002 for attacks on writer Didier Daeninckx.
Thion attended the 2006 International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust in Iran, often described as a conference.
