Posted on 08/05/2019 8:52:32 PM PDT by Beave Meister
(PHNOM PENH, Cambodia) — Nuon Chea, the chief ideologue of the communist Khmer Rouge regime that destroyed a generation of Cambodians, died Sunday, the country’s U.N.-assisted genocide tribunal said. He was 93.
Nuon Chea was known as Brother No. 2, the right-hand man of Pol Pot, the leader of the regime that ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. The group’s fanatical efforts to realize a utopian society led to the death of some 1.7 million people — more than a quarter of the country’s population at the time — from starvation, disease, overwork and executions.
Researchers believe Nuon Chea was responsible for the extremist policies of the Khmer Rouge and was directly involved in its purges and executions.
He was serving life in prison after convictions by the U.N.-backed tribunal on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
At the long-awaited Khmer Rouge trials, he told a court that he and his comrades were not “bad people,” denying responsibility for any deaths.
For decades after the fall of the Khmer Rouge, Nuon Chea lived quietly with his family in a wooden house in Pailin, a former guerrilla stronghold near the border with Thailand.
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The hidden agenda was downsizing the middle class....in mass graves, in order to smooth over any remaining opposition to the prescriptive justice they offered.
In meetings with Pol Pot and the other inner cadres, the Sorbonne educated democrat socialists would speak French, which insulated the others from any bothersome knowledge.
Leftists here pkedge to finish what he started. The Cold Ear never ended, it just came home.
It’s a shame he was allowed to live to an old age, after all the suffering and death he caused. Hope he burns in hell
I hope his death was long, painful, and he suffered a lot...
I must learn to type slower on my phone.
I have friends from Cambodia now living in the US. Industrious business owners who tell me more than you can believe about these evil bastards.
“Industrious business owners who tell me more than you can believe about these evil bastards.”
I knew a guy whose family tried to escape. When they left there were ten of them. 2 made it out alive.
This monster should have been nailed to a floor and burned alive.
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He must face God's judgment now.
AOC has a sad.
Why was this sadistic SOB not executed?
Castro in the east
The good die young....but they live forever in paradise.
On the other hand, this old asshole is in a different place.
I suspect that in Cambodia, as in Rwanda, there was an understanding that so many people had participated in killing that achieving peace could only be done by overlooking many of the atrocities. In Cambodia in particular, the Khmer Rouge had made a point of recruiting (in the countryside) then seizing (in the general population) children. They wanted to mold their young impressionable minds, but in the end they were no match for the NVA when they invaded in 1979.
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