Serge Thion
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Serge Thion (born 1942) is a controversial French sociologist mainly known for his Holocaust denial.
Thion worked as a researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) from 1971 to 2000. Most of his research 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. [[1]] According to Thion:
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- "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.
At the age of 58, his employment with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) was dismissed over controversies related to his revisionist position on the Jewish Holocaust.
[edit] External links
- List of publications by Thion
- List of Thion's publications on Southeast Asia
- Texts by Serge Thion
- Serge Thion Archive
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