Cambodian court opens landmark K. Rouge trial

asiaone ^ | Mon, Jun 27, 2011 | Michelle Fitzpatrick

[Rabin]

PHNOM PENH Four top Khmer Rouge leaders went on trial at Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court on Monday charged with genocide and other atrocities during the Maoist group's reign of terror in the late 1970s… The four accused face charges including genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes over the deaths of up to two million people from starvation, overwork, torture or execution during the Khmer Rouge's brutal 1975-79

[Rabin]

Ian MacKinnon in Bangkok September 2007

Four senior Khmer Rouge leaders have been indicted for their pivotal role in deaths of 1.7 million Cambodians in the "killing fields" during the Maoist regime's four-year reign of terror three decades ago. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/cambodia

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Justice, Grind slow and exceeding fine. Faith in the fullness of time.

Rab

[Larry Lucido]

Try them, hang them, and let God deal with them.

[Navy Patriot]

How come it takes forty years to just start a trial for commies that kill millions in death camps and just ten years to convict Serbs of killing a few hundred in combat actions?

[I see my hands]

Not advocating just asking. How else does a society rid itself of ideological enemies? Will the US ever be stable given the current crop of statists who are hell bent on the destruction of America?

Will a Palin presidency temper them? Will a conservative house and senate heal their insanity? You can spend years building, it takes evil five minutes to destroy what you've created and then some.

More important than enjoying freedom is the job of destroying tyranny. You don't create freedom and therefore slavery is eliminated, you destroy slavery and therefore freedom rings.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

A little journalistic, historical note on this. I was the only journalist to testify before Congress (House International Affairs Committee, July 1974 and H. Armed Services Forces, April 1975 about the coming genocide in Cambodia). I presented a formerly Secret U.S. intelligence document detailing Khmer Rouge occupation tactics during the early 1970’s in parts of Cambodia that they had seized with North Vietnamese help.

Of course this testimony was totally ignored by the press, but you can find references to it in Prof. Louis Fanning’s book “Betrayal in Vietnam”, about the role Congress played in betraying our allies in Indochina.

This is one of only two known books on the role of Congress in determining the course of the war and the fate of our allies.

Some of us tried, at risks to our lives, to tell the story of what went on there. A lot of good men but their efforts were ignored.

[inthaihill]

I lived in Cambodia between 1994 and 1997. Started an English school in Phnom Penh. I met a lot of the people involved with modern Cambodian history to include some journalists.

I used to hang out at the FCC across from the river and watch the goings on. I would have to do some research on the names, but many foreign correspondents in Cambodia at the time were “a little weird” to put it nicely.

How much do you know about the little war in July 1997 between Hun Sin’s troops and those of Funcipec? Been a while since I thought about these my experiences during that time. I do know that a lot of left-leaning people inside and outside the US government refused to believe what was going on during the Khmer Rouge rule. I think even Kenneth Quinn blew it when he was an analyst in Vietnam. What is your take on that?

[LiveFreeOrDie2001]

My Wife is from Cambodia, lived on a self-sufficient farm and survived all that crap.

Saw her Dad shot to death, watched her Mom starve to death in a camp where they were worked to death, literally.

MANY more bad things; she says the movie “The Killing Fields” was only 10% of how bad it was...