Khmer Rouge genocide trial opens in Cambodia

tony7914 · Joined: Dec 24, 2004 Posts: 4965 Location: Peru Indiana

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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – The chief of a prison where some 16,000 men, women and children were tortured before being killed appeared Tuesday before Cambodia's genocide tribunal in its first trial over the Khmer Rouge reign of terror more than three decades ago.

Kaing Guek Eav — better known as Duch — is charged with crimes against humanity and is the first of five defendants scheduled for long-delayed trials by the U.N.-assisted court.

They were among a close-knit, ultra-communist clique that turned Cambodia into a vast slave labor camp and charnel house in which 1.7 million or more died of starvation, disease and execution.

Duch, who headed the S-21 prison in Phnom Penh for the Khmer Rouge, is the only defendant to have expressed remorse for his actions, and on Tuesday he again voiced regret for what he did and sought forgiveness.

"Duch acknowledges the facts he's being charged with," his French lawyer Francois Roux, said at a press briefing after Tuesday's court session. "Duch wishes to ask forgiveness from the victims but also from the Cambodian people. He will do so publicly. This is the very least he owes the victims.".....

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Long over due in my opinion.
People accuse the US of torture but they always seem to forget things like the Khmer Rouge, these guys were masters at it and extremely brutal to their victims. When the Khmer Rouge executed people in the war to save money and bullets they beat them to death.

Gezzer · Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 1:04 pm Post subject:

if you get the chance have a read of a book called "the killing fields" …

a link to some info …
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killing_Fields

tony7914 · Joined: Dec 24, 2004 Posts: 4965 Location: Peru Indiana