Khmer Rouge torture chief weeps at "Killing Fields" (U N-backed tribunal)

Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 2/26/08 | Ek Madra

[NormsRevenge]

Tourists look at a mass grave for Khmer Rouge victims at Choeung Ek, 17 km (11 miles) south of Phnom Penh, February 26, 2008. Duch, also known as Kaing Guek Eav, who has confessed in interviews with Western reporters that he committed multiple atrocities as head of Phnom Penh's infamous Tuol Sleng, or S-21, interrogation centre, toured the site on Tuesday to re-enact his crimes for a U.N.-backed court. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea

[gusopol3]

can they get one of these going for Fidel?

[Larry Lucido]

Detained in 1999 and now a Christian,

Well, when he's done testifying, send him off to see Jesus.

[Larry Lucido]

In the early 70’s, liberals denied this possibility. In 1975 they denied it was happening. In 1976 they denied it was as bad as they said. Now they are silent. Bastards.

[bill1952]

Cry me a river...

[gusopol3]

ping Bob Edgar, former Congressman, head of the Methodist Church and current head of Common Cause.

[RinaseaofDs]

They should rename this, “The Walter Cronkite/Dan Rather Responsible Journalism Shrine”

[KarlInOhio]

In the early 70’s, liberals denied this possibility. In 1975 they denied it was happening. In 1976 they denied it was as bad as they said. Now they are silent. Bastards.

Not silent. They now say that Iraq will not be like Cambodia if we pull out. Back to step one.

[Monterrosa-24]

The Spring of 1975 New York Times editorial was “Cambodia without Americans: for most a better life”.

[LowTaxesEqualProsperity]

The New York Slimes has been on the side of evil for many decades.

I NEVER pay for this paper, it is like funding Satan.

[gusopol3]

that’s why I shake my head when I read FR comments about how the NYT has lost its standards, integrity, etc. Must have been before my literate life-time, which goes back further than I care to think now.

[Dilbert San Diego]

good point to make. The killing fields happened as a result of our pullout from Southeast Asia. The liberals/radicals keep trying to make Iraq into another Vietnam. It’s good to remember what happened in Vietnam and Southeast Asia after we withdrew. The liberals/radicals have a hole in their memory that there were very drastic consequences from our withdrawal.

[Squawk 8888]

They’re not silent about it now. They’re blaming it on America.

[monday]

“...a regime deemed responsible for the deaths of 1.7 million people.”

Socialism, the ideology of death.

[philled]

In the early 70’s, liberals denied this possibility. In 1975 they denied it was happening. In 1976 they denied it was as bad as they said. Now they are silent. Bastards.

In 1977 McGovern took to the floor and called for the bombing of Cambodia. Of course, he had more famously proclaimed (some 600 days prior) that "the greatest gift that the US could give the people of Cambodia was peace".

In 1975, a Republican was in office and according to this leftist, the best thing we could possibly do was get out and not fund violence. In 1977, a Democrat was in office and 1972's "Peace Candidate" was calling for daisy cutters after he saw to it that millions were slaughtered due to his short-sightedness.

Will the Dems be foolish enough to ignore their own history? I pray that our troops and millions of Iraqis don't have to run that risk.

[Squawk 8888]

that’s why I shake my head when I read FR comments about how the NYT has lost its standards, integrity, etc

Me too, FRiend. Back in the 1930s, the NYT had a reporter in Ukraine singing Stalin's praises while 11 million people were being deliberately starved to death by the regime.

[mnehring]

..just like former Nazis guilty of war crimes, these monsters shouldn’t be given a pass. Sure he acts (and may actually be) remorseful now, but that doesn’t mean he shouldn’t pay for his crime.

[17th Miss Regt]

Sure he acts (and may actually be) remorseful now, but that doesn’t mean he shouldn’t pay for his crime.

The article says he will be tried for crimes against humanity. If he is a Christian, he knows that he must testify truthfully at the trial and that the government may execute him for his acts. But he will not experience the second death.

Given that he is testifying against several other very high ranking Khmer Rouge, I think it is highly likely that in exchange for his truthful testimony against the others, his life will be spared.

[americanophile]

Cry me a river Duch...I hope they execute him in the same damn fields.