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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Nothing will happen. They are communists. Communists can never to anything wrong, just ask the New York Times.
But, the media told me that only Americans killed people in Southeast Asia! /s
About damn time.
it’s about time, wouldn’t you say
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.
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.
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.
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
They should be executed like all commies. Commies are always unstable and violent.
Liberals will forgive them with their standard “they meant well” excuse.
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.
I've enjoyed the rumour over the years that Stalin was assassinated with rat poison.
Well, what is the best way to get rid of a rat.... rat poison.
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