Nice to see they got around real quick to prosecuting these guys. /s
The democrats need their noses rubbed in this - especially now - so that all are reminded of the consequences of not finishing what you have started.
Dear Janie Fondle, and Johnny Boy Kerry,
These were the thugs who YOU said didn’t exist.
They did the killings YOU said wouldn’t happen.
In your stupid words, these commies were PEACEFUL PEOPLE.
I still boil. Hope the whole bunch rots in hell.
It takes a well trained mind to commit these sorts of atrocities. This sort of training is going on everyday in OUR academic institutions.
“..the Khmer Rouge was overthrown by a Vietnamese invasion.”
Going from worse to bad.
"We heard that argument over and over again about the bloodbath that would engulf the entire Southeast Asia, and it didn't happen," (John) Kerry said.
Source: John Kerry for Senate Website:
http://www.johnkerry.com/2007/7/23/Kerry-fights-battle-he-finds-all-too-familiar
So he decided his life was worth more than thousands upon thousands of innocents. I understand the urge for self-preservation is a powerful one, but you have to be one soulless SOB to do what this guy did.
Can't believe it's been 30 years.
Of course.
Maybe Chomsky will pay for his defense.
Duch thought he’d have been killed, eh? Well, he’s right, they would have strapped him down on the electrified bedframe just like he did to hundreds if not thousands of his victims. Then a 9 mile ride down to Choeng Ek, “The Killing Fields”.
The thing is, the KR was absolutely as brutal if nor moreso to its own “leaders”. As recently as 1998 Pol Pot ordered the murder of Son Sen - “Brother Number 4”, IIRC - for collaborating to end the KR’s 18 years in the jungles of Anglong Veng near Thailand. Oh, don’t forget to kill his entire family too. And once you’ve done that, throw their bodies into the middle of the main road and run them over with a 1/4 ton truck, until their remains are made one with the dirt (”smashing” being a KR pastime and also one of Duch’s favorite terms). That’s the KR way, right up to the bitter end. “To have you is no benefit, to lose you is no loss.”
And after all that, Pol Pot’s cronies injected him in the heart with poison, fearing that he might be angry at his own toppling from the KR throne and spill the beans on everyone else. They called his murder “a heart attack”, but a guard confessed to the injection a year after Pol Pot’s death.
So now we have Duch, one of the more notorious but not the only genocidal murderer in Cambodia, and he’s crying “they made me do it.” Well, maybe they did, and maybe they didn’t. But S-21 was a pretty darned effective and efficient abatoire for someone under such pressure.
A sane person might wonder how Duch could go three years, killing 18 thousand innocents in the process, and live with himself for even one brief moment after the KR was run out of town. But maybe he’s lying, and maybe he embraced the torture and the killing as much as his 12 and 14 year old executioners down at The Killing Fields. Maybe he liked it.
But he became a “Christian missionary” in his later years, and lived in obscurity working for various church groups. You might think that would cleanse him of any blaming or minimization of his unspeakable crimes against his fellow Cambodians (by the way, hs is of Chinese and not Khmer descent). Not so. Like all good KR, he remains blameless: “someone else did it”. Like Brother Number 3, Khieu Samphan, who’s still alive and under amnesty, and who snickers and snorts when asked about the atrocities, “they never happened”. In 1998 Pol Pot himself said “there were excesses”, but nothing like the 2 to 3 million murdered, starved, and worked to death. Nope, it’s a big exaggeration (despite hundreds and thousands of other Killing Fields all across Cambodia, some excavated, some not).
Personally I think Duch should be sentenced to excavate every single last bone and tooth and strip of clothing still on and in the ground down at Choeng Ek. Make him work there, live there, eat there, and sleep there, among the souls of his 18 thousand victims. And don’t let him leave the site for even one single minute until his dying day.
The man deserves execution, but it seems too quick and too trivial, and it couldn’t possibly be made any more gruesome than what he did to his own prisoners, at least by any half-civilized society.
Ping
One of the very, very few prosecutions for murder in the entire 90-year, 100+ million corpse history of Communism in power.
Has any other official, functionary, secret policeman, or camp guard been proecuted, ever? I think maybe a few in East Germany, but I don’t know for certain.
I don’t recall a single protest here in the US against the Khmer Rouge murderers nor any sympathy for the victims from the leftists.
An ounce of justice might be possible if Kerry, Fonda and a host of other leftists could be dragged into the public square and a sort of Khmer Rouge scarlet letter be pinned to their chests for all to see for all time.
Not even the punishment of God in some afterlife seems adequate. Kerry and his ilk will go through life cheered by millions of American useful idiots. To think he nearly won the presidency disgusts me.
During the election I nearly got into a fight with a Vietnam vet over the traitor Kerry. Nice guy, would give you the shirt off his back, blah, blah, blah...But his support for Kerry was unshakable and the Khmer Rouge massacre never registered with him.
I have never understood this support for the traitor Kerry and never will.
Perhaps this is some kind of unfathomable joke that God plays on us, and one day He will wake us up and shout “April fools!” Or maybe the Buddhists have it right and life is an illusion.