Khmer Rouge Figure Is First Charged in Atrocities

NY Times ^ | August 1, 2007 | SETH MYDANS

[neverdem]

BANGKOK, July 31 — A tribunal in Cambodia charged the commandant of the main Khmer Rouge torture house with crimes against humanity on Tuesday, bringing the first charge in a long-delayed trial in the deaths of 1.7 million people in the late 1970s.

The commandant, Kaing Guek Eav, 64, known as Duch, was the leader of the Tuol Sleng prison in Phnom Penh where at least 14,000 men, women and children were tortured and sent to killing fields. Only a handful survived.

Two weeks ago, prosecutors announced that they had submitted to the tribunal a list of five potential defendants for consideration by co-investigating judges, who are authorized to decide on filing formal charges.

The other four names have not been disclosed. In the charges on Tuesday, the judges said Duch had been placed in “provisional detention,” but did not explain. A small holding center was recently built on the grounds of the tribunal in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia.

Duch has been the only major Khmer Rouge figure in custody, in a military jail in Phnom Penh on separate charges, since 1999 when a British photographer discovered him in rural Cambodia. He was working for a government agency and had become a born-again Christian.

Because of his conversion, “He spoke candidly about his role as Pol Pot’s chief executioner,” said the photographer, Nic Dunlop, referring to the Khmer Rouge leader.

“If he remains true to his words and talks as openly as he did then, he can potentially throw huge light on areas of darkness that have eluded scholars for decades,” said Mr. Dunlop, who wrote about Duch in “The Lost Executioner.” Duch could offer damaging testimony against other potential defendants, who have denied or minimized their roles in the Khmer Rouge rule.

Nearly one-fourth of Cambodia’s population...

[stephenjohnbanker]

“He was working for a government agency and had become a born-again Christian. “

Interesting twist for this monster.

[suffering_fools]

A) It's a NYT article.

B) Where were they when this genocide was happening?

C) What culpability does the NYT have in bringing about these atrocities by virtue of their anti-American, commie propaganda, and undermining of the Vietnam war?

It's worth the time to search for the recent Jane Fonda video of someone asking her about her part in this genocide. She has no response. Stone faced.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Let’s hope Khieu Samphan is on this list. This is waaaaaaaaaay overdue (something like 27 years—since the KR fell from power).

[AmericanInTokyo]

Jane Fonda in fact called it all lies, when truth started to dribble out of closed Cambodia in the late 1970s about mass murders by the black pajama-ed KR.

She even took issue with lib Joan Baez who split with here on the boat people issue.

Commie to the core.

[Uncle Miltie]

"An estimated 1.7 million people died from hunger, disease, overwork and execution when the Khmer Rouge was in power in 1975-79."

"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

[Holicheese]

This was “re-education” not genocide. Please speak with J Forbes Kerry if you disagree.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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NEVER FORGET

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Behold the kind of massive human suffering brought upon the innocents of S.E. Asia after Anti-Freedom, Anti-US Activists here fooled us into leaving them behind to horrid fates at the hands of bully GODless Communists:

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Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education (SLAVE LABOR) Camp

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts

http://www.JourneyFromTheFall.com

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Anti-Freedom, Anti-US Activists like:

JANE FONDA
JOAH BAEZ
HILLARY RODHAM
BARBARA BOXER
TED KENNEDY
JOHN KERRY
TED KENNEDY
TOM HAYDEN
RAMSEY CLARK (SADDAM’s Defense Attorney)

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NEVER FORGET

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[rfp1234]

[weegee]

(paraphrase) “If you knew what communism was you would fall down on your knees and pray for it”. - Jane Fonda

[neverdem]

The hard left hasn't pushed hard here, just everywhere else.

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[neverdem]

The hard left hasn't pushed hard here, just everywhere else.

Children’s Health Plan Focus of New Struggle

We need fewer people to halt global warming

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[M. Espinola]

To the leftists which say the ‘dominoes did not fall’ when American left Vietnam - what do they call the Cambodia killing fields?

[Coleus]

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[lawnguy]

deaths of 1.7 million people in the late 1970s

Allow me to clarify this. It was during the Carter Administration.

[MountainFlower]

PING

[American in Israel]

Justice is not swift in that part of the world. 40 years is a long time to be getting around to results in mass murder trials. Most of the surviving witnesses have died of old age during the trial.

[American in Israel]

I know what communism is and do pray for its destruction.