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Khmer Rouge leadership to face genocide trial
Telegraph UK ^ | 16 Sep 2010 | Ian MacKinnon

Posted on 09/18/2010 3:03:34 PM PDT by Thebaddog

Four senior Khmer Rouge leaders have been indicted for their pivotal role in deaths of 1.7 million Cambodians in the "killing fields" during the Maoist regime's four-year reign of terror three decades ago.

The UN-backed genocide tribunal said the aging quartet would face charges including war crimes and crimes against humanity in a trial likely to open by the middle of next year. The long-awaited trial will put in the dock the regime's chief ideologue known as "brother number two", Nuon Chea, 84, nominal head of state, Khieu Samphan, 79, the foreign minister, Ieng Sary, 84, and his wife, Ieng Thirith, 78, described as the Khmer Rouge's "first lady".

Headed by Pol Pot, "brother number one" who died in 1998, the Khmer Rouge held power from 1975 until 1979, clearing cities in a misguided effort to turn the country into an agrarian utopia. In the process an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians died of starvation, disease and overwork, or were tortured and executed as "CIA spies" in the "killing fields". The latest round of indictments comes two months after the landmark conviction of the regime's chief torturer Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, for the deaths of 15,000 people in the notorious Tuol Sleng jail. Duch, 67, was sentenced to 30 years in jail but could walk free after 19 years because of time he has already served. The sentence was heavily criticised in Cambodia for its leniency and the prosecutors have lodged an appeal.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: genocide; khmerrouge
As I recall, these people were academics in their time. I hope that Obama takes note of how things are turning out for these brainiacs.
1 posted on 09/18/2010 3:03:40 PM PDT by Thebaddog
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Nothing will happen. They are communists. Communists can never to anything wrong, just ask the New York Times.


2 posted on 09/18/2010 3:12:03 PM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: Thebaddog

But, the media told me that only Americans killed people in Southeast Asia! /s


3 posted on 09/18/2010 3:13:28 PM PDT by Shadow44
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About damn time.


4 posted on 09/18/2010 3:13:59 PM PDT by dfwgator (Rangers Magic Number - 7)
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it’s about time, wouldn’t you say


5 posted on 09/18/2010 3:15:08 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys)
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Why does it need the U.N. in order to get involved, would be my only question. Not only because the U.N. will probably only slap the Field Killers on the wrist, but because the U.N. could prove a menace to future emeritus US presidents that were too “rightist” for the U.N.’s taste.


6 posted on 09/18/2010 3:21:51 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: Thebaddog

For the unfamiliar, the names mentioned are total kmher bigwigs. Dutch the prison guard, turned state’s evidence and is the only one to express remorse over the murdered.


7 posted on 09/18/2010 3:23:12 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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What about Stalin and Mao? I am not naive to think that the UN would review other Communist atrocities. That is counter to their agenda. Which raises the question about how thorough and fair this trial would be.

But that kind of vetting would certainly be healthy for the World.

There are still people who believe that Communism is just peachy. They argue: they weren’t doing it right, we just need to give it another chance. We must remind them and remind them again.


8 posted on 09/18/2010 3:23:31 PM PDT by dhs12345
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I remember in third grade in Catholic school how my teacher HATED commies and told us stories about commies cutting out children’s tongues and putting chopsticks through their eardrums so they couldn’t learn in school.........never forgot that.

The Catholics also used to pray for the deliverance of Russia-of course I guess the silly Jesuits got infiltrated and started their accursed “liberation theology’ which is of the devil


9 posted on 09/18/2010 4:20:47 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys)
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They should be executed like all commies. Commies are always unstable and violent.


10 posted on 09/18/2010 5:03:52 PM PDT by Ptarmigan (Never Forget 9/11!)
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Liberals will forgive them with their standard “they meant well” excuse.


11 posted on 09/18/2010 5:41:56 PM PDT by marktwain
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It’s too bad the commies in Russia and all the other Soviet republics and satellites are not being hauled up before tribunals, facing death sentences for their crimes.


12 posted on 09/18/2010 6:00:37 PM PDT by hellbender
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What about Stalin and Mao?

I've enjoyed the rumour over the years that Stalin was assassinated with rat poison.

13 posted on 09/18/2010 6:12:10 PM PDT by Thebaddog (Shakey Jake said, " The hippies will never survive!")
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Well, what is the best way to get rid of a rat.... rat poison.


14 posted on 09/19/2010 7:27:47 AM PDT by dhs12345
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