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Ex-Khmer Rouge Head Of State Arrested
ap/cbs NEWS ^ | 11-19-07

Posted on 11/19/2007 10:30:54 AM PST by STARWISE

UN-Backed Genocide Tribunal Arrests Former Khmer Rouge Head Of State Khieu Samphan In Cambodia

The U.N.-backed genocide tribunal in Cambodia arrested the former Khmer Rouge head of state Monday following his release from a hospital in the capital, officials said.

Khieu Samphan, 76, was the fifth senior Khmer Rouge official to be detained by the long-delayed tribunal ahead of trials that are expected to begin next year. The arrests come almost three decades after the group fell from power, with many fearing the aging suspects might die before they ever see a courtroom.

Police escorted Khieu Samphan from the hospital that he checked into last Wednesday after suffering a stroke. They held his arms for support and led him to a police car that sped away in a convoy of a half dozen police vehicles.

Khieu Samphan's arrest by the U.N.-backed tribunal had been widely expected. It was not immediately clear what charges Khieu Samphan will face. He was expected to appear before investigating judges later in the day, tribunal spokesman Reach Sambath said.

The 1975-79 Khmer Rouge regime was blamed for the deaths of some 1.7 million people from starvation, disease, overwork and execution.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cambodia; genocide; khmerrouge; killingfields; samphan

I don't care how old or sick this monster is: G O O D!

(Those two sure don't look like policemen.)

1 posted on 11/19/2007 10:30:55 AM PST by STARWISE
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To: STARWISE; Owl_Eagle; Sam's Army; Lazamataz; Darksheare; pissant; najida; r-q-tek86; blackie; ...

PING!!!


2 posted on 11/19/2007 10:36:03 AM PST by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (RIP Eric Medlen. You will be missed.../ Get well Soon John Force!!!)
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To: STARWISE

Bring back draw and quartering!


3 posted on 11/19/2007 10:41:23 AM PST by Sensei Ern (http://www.myspace.com/reconcomedy - Ann Coulter is My Press Secretary)
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To: Sensei Ern

Don’t you just love UN backed ‘justice’? It only took 30+ years for them pursue this scum.


4 posted on 11/19/2007 10:47:00 AM PST by Islander7 ("Show me an honest politician and I will show you a case of mistaken identity.")
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To: STARWISE

Communism in it’s pure essence.


5 posted on 11/19/2007 10:53:20 AM PST by SolidWood ("I knew my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol.")
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To: STARWISE

Khieu Samphan attends the funeral for the former wife of Pol Pot, the late Khmer Rouge leader who died in 1998 in the former Khmer Rouge stronghold of Pailin, northwestern Cambodia, in this July 3, 2003, file photo. Cambodia's 1970s Khmer Rouge regime, widely accused of responsibility for the deaths of 1.7 million people, was concerned mainly with social justice and defending the country against foreign enemies, its former head of state Khieu Samphan said in a new book. (AP Photo/Andy Eames, File)


6 posted on 11/19/2007 11:00:09 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick

his house is just about here on google maps

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=11.560116,104.917315&spn=0.002675,0.003042&t=h&z=18&om=1

just north of the treelined street, center of map

green roof and big white something on the grounds

there was a manned guard shack the whole time i lived there

because he had been attacked and almost killed there

in earlier years

i lived immediately around the corner from the bastard


7 posted on 11/19/2007 11:18:47 AM PST by angkor ("There! half man, half bear, and half pig! Do you see it?!." Al Gore, South Park 11.12)
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To: NormsRevenge
DR. Khieu Samphan DOCTORATE, THE SORBONNE, PARIS attends the funeral for the former wife of Pol Pot, the late Khmer Rouge leader who WAS ASSASINATED BY AN INJECTION OF POISON TO THE HEART, ACCORDING TO ONE OF HIS HOUSE ARREST GUARDS in 1998 in the former Khmer Rouge stronghold of Pailin, northwestern Cambodia, in this July 3, 2003, file photo. POL POT HAD IN 1997 HAD HIS 30YEAR COLLEGUE SONN SENN AND HIS ENTIRE FAMILY MURDERED AND THEN CRUSHED INTO THE DIRT OF THE MAIN VILLAGE STREET BY REPEATEDLY RUNNING OVER THEM WITH A 2 TON TRUCK. POL POT STOOD TRIAL IN 1998 FOR UNRELATED MATTERS AND WAS SENTENCED TO HOUSE ARREST. Cambodia
8 posted on 11/19/2007 11:36:34 AM PST by angkor ("There! half man, half bear, and half pig! Do you see it?!." Al Gore, South Park 11.12)
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To: STARWISE

AMEN AND AMEN brotha...............fry that scum....anybody whose ever seen ‘THE KILLING FIELDS’ will certainly agree. Those poor millions of people. There must be a special place in hell for the perpetrators...of this genocide.


9 posted on 11/19/2007 11:57:38 AM PST by flat
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To: flat; Jersey Republican Biker Chick
There must be a special place in hell for the perpetrators...of this genocide.

And the pinko fellow-traveller enablers.

10 posted on 11/19/2007 1:43:45 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Hunter 2008)
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To: Larry Lucido

amen again....look ye well everyone what communism and socialism HATH wrought....and will descend into if given half a chance...

the free market system and capitalism continues to be and always will the best way to achieve fairness and equality among men...PERIOD.


11 posted on 11/19/2007 3:43:53 PM PST by flat
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To: STARWISE; ALOHA RONNIE; 1stbn27; 2111USMC; 2nd Bn, 11th Mar; 68 grunt; A.A. Cunningham; ASOC; ...

Ping


12 posted on 11/19/2007 5:12:44 PM PST by freema (Proud Marine Niece, Daughter, Wife, Friend, Sister, Aunt, Cousin, Mother, and FRiend)
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To: NormsRevenge

The caption says, “widely accused” what a load of BS!


13 posted on 11/19/2007 5:49:43 PM PST by vpintheak (Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. Prov. 25:26)
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To: STARWISE
Where did you get that picture and what is it of (I mean where? Location, details).

Thanks!

14 posted on 11/19/2007 9:53:38 PM PST by NucSubs (Rudy Giuliani 2008! Our liberal democrat is better than theirs!)
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To: NucSubs

Those are some of the skulls from
the over 1 million dead in the
Killing Fields of Cambodia.

I did an image search for killing
fields and/or Khmer Rouge.


15 posted on 11/19/2007 10:01:03 PM PST by STARWISE (They (Dims) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: STARWISE

I realized it was Cambodia, I was just wondering if there was a specific story that went with it. Thanks.


16 posted on 11/19/2007 10:33:50 PM PST by NucSubs (Rudy Giuliani 2008! Our liberal democrat is better than theirs!)
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To: NucSubs

Pol Pot

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot


17 posted on 11/19/2007 10:41:28 PM PST by STARWISE (They (Dims) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: NucSubs

http://www.time.com/time/daily/polpot/1.html


18 posted on 11/19/2007 10:43:28 PM PST by STARWISE (They (Dims) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: STARWISE
Yes...I know who Pol Pot was.

Nevermind. I was not specific enough but you essentially answered my question anyway. Thanks.

19 posted on 11/19/2007 11:00:33 PM PST by NucSubs (Rudy Giuliani 2008! Our liberal democrat is better than theirs!)
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To: freema

Two judgements coming. One on earth, then the final thumbs down by the Lord God. The price one pays for selling their soul to the Devil.


20 posted on 11/21/2007 5:10:17 PM PST by Marine_Uncle (Duncan Hunter for POTUS)
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