Those poor men. I agree with you completely.
This has always bothered me.
Men are killed all the time in war, but...these men were left behind, and the feeling of abandoment and loneliness, left to the hands of those beasts even until today, fills me with an aching sadness for them.
It speaks volumes how evil the Khmer Rouge communists were. Obviously to genocide but to take two legit POWs and by order of the General/president to officially execute by torture. That sort of thing is usually carried out by a Rogue officer or lawless soldiers. Socialists on the other hand seem to do this as par of the course.
They even started it with the illegal seizure of the ship.