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| Cambodia Tribunal Convicts Khmer Rouge Leaders |
| 2014-08-09 |
| [BOSTON] U.N.-backed tribunal in Cambodia has sentenced two top Khmer Rouge leaders to life in prison on war crimes charges for their role in the country's 1970s terror. The historic verdicts were announced Thursday against Khieu Samphan, the regime's 83-year-old former head of state, and Nuon Chea, its 88-year-old chief ideologue. Both men, in dire health, have denied wrongdoing. The charges centered on the forced exodus of millions of people from Cambodia's cities and towns, and an execution site in the northwest where thousands of people were shot and buried in mass graves. About 1.7 million people died under their 1975-79 rule, through starvation, medical neglect, overwork and execution. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 My brother-in-laws father can hopefully now rest easy. My sister and he just got back from Cambodia, raised money and oversaw the installation of 16 wells. |
| Posted by: Beavis 2014-08-09 21:22 |
| #3 AND everyone but the UN knew what the Khmer Rouge was doing years before the MSM acknowledged it...and tried to blame it on Nixon. The National Geographic had an article about Ankar Wat in an issue in 1973 that included pictures of a completely deserted Phenom Phen with a paragraph stating the Khmer Rouge had relocated the entire population to camps in the jungle... THEY KNEW and did nothing until they could find a way to twist it into an anti-US narrative. What was going on in Cambodia should have sparked enough outrage that every country on the planet would have sent troops in to stop it. The same with the Holocaust, everyone KNEW, in Rwanda, everyone KNEW. Not a moral bone in the body of a single UN official... |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2014-08-09 11:43 |
| #2 When you permanently remove 7 million witnesses, a conviction can take time. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-08-09 08:53 |
| #1 Well, that only took 37+ years... |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-08-09 08:48 |