Posted on 01/28/2009 12:06:23 PM PST by nickcarraway
Trials of five brutal leaders will begin next month
Finally, at everlastingly long last, someone is to answer for the atrocities of the Khmers Rouges - in particular, the savagery of 1975-79, when they ruled all of Cambodia. Agence France-Presse reports from Phnom Penh that Feb. 17 is the day the regime's torturer-in-chief will go on trial in the capital for crimes against humanity.
Kaing Khek Iev, better known as Duch, is the first of five scheduled to go before a UN-sponsored tribunal for one of the great crimes of the 20th century. An estimated 1.7 million Cambodians out of a population of 7 million lost their lives to the insanity - sick, starved, worked to death or simply eliminated, cost-effectively, by a hoe to the back of the neck. It was madness, administered without remorse.
And it wasn't even genocide. This was not one race or cultural group trying to wipe out another. It was a small corps of ideologues brutalizing their own people, in a weird attempt to return Cambodia to "Year Zero" and an agrarian society uncorrupted by education, money, cities and towns, religion, family life or human emotions. Angkar ("the organization") saw all, controlled everything, ruled everyone, killed as it pleased, in a world to challenge the imagination of an Orwell.
No one has properly answered for this. The regime's sinister leader, Pol Pot, who acquired his vision of social perfection during studies in France, died in his bed, unrepentant, in 1998. Others have joined him, or soon will. Time is running out. At least these five will have to face their crimes.
The first, comrade Duch, has a story to shrivel the soul. He ran the regime's house of horrors, Tuol Sleng prison in Phnom Penh.
(Excerpt) Read more at canada.com ...
Thanks again France.
This simply once again reinforces Lurkers Rule Of Foreign Countries.
If it was settled by the Dutch or the British, it's ok to go there.
If it was settled by the Spanish, Belgians, or the French it's a hellhole to this day and is to be avoided at all costs.
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Hmmm, don’t you live in a country that was settled by the Spanish and French, as well as the British? And a state that was settled by the French?
Ah yes, Louisiana - America's Banana Republic.
With the exception of Zimbabwe (settled by the Brits).
Illinois was settled by Americans, actually. Check the date of Incorporation.
And a state that was settled by the French?
That explains a lot about Illinois when you think about it...
And I didn't say 'settled by' I said 'colonized by'. While there are a multitude of French and Spanish who settled here, the basic Civil structures were set up by the Brits thank God.
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wonderful news.
details of torture of all individuals should be made public and called “another holocaust for humanity” by totalitarian swine.
IMHO
Kind of a special case that one. Rhodesia had a perfectly functional Civil government and a thriving economy when the Brits granted it independence.
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“If it was settled by the Dutch or the British, it’s ok to go there.”
Vacationing in Zimbabwe this year?
OMG - a UN human rights trial - bet he’s just crapping his pants right now.
Then this should be done as well. All the treasonous congress critters who voted to defund Vietnam in the 70's during Ford's term in office should also be brought to trial. Because of them all this happened.
BS, Pol Pot was the purest Marxist to ever walk the face of the earth. Communists have killed well over 100 Million people in the last 100 years or so, not enemy combatants, but political opponents, RJ Rumell coined the term "DEMOCIDE" to describe governments killing their own citizens.
Source: DEATH BY GOVERNMENT By R.J. Rummel, New Brunswick, N.J.:Transaction Publishers, 1994
Is Jon Carry going to be their attorney.
Jamaica actually.
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Spanish claims included Everything South of the Ohio, West of the Mississippi, the Carolanas (before they were the Carolinas, they were the Carolanas ~ Carolana being a Spanish princess I believe), Florida (most of it), Georgia, Virginia, Maryland, etc. all the way up to NewFoundland and Labrador.
I'm not sure the Spanish figured out that Canada existed before they'd relinquished claims to it.
Yes, Red States were sought after by both France and Spain. Blue States were problems for the Brits (with a few exceptions).
Unlike the rest of the world, it's the British claims in the US that yield up the populations yearning for Third World Hellholedom.
my thoughts exactly!
“all the treasonous congress critters who voted to defund vietnam in the 70’s during ford’s term in office should also be brought to trial. because of them all this happened.”
well said.
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