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.
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I don't care how old or sick this monster is: G O O D!
(Those two sure don't look like policemen.)
PING!!!
Bring back draw and quartering!
Don’t you just love UN backed ‘justice’? It only took 30+ years for them pursue this scum.
Communism in it’s pure essence.
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)
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
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.
And the pinko fellow-traveller enablers.
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.
Ping
The caption says, “widely accused” what a load of BS!
Thanks!
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.
I realized it was Cambodia, I was just wondering if there was a specific story that went with it. Thanks.
Nevermind. I was not specific enough but you essentially answered my question anyway. Thanks.
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.
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