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if i were in charge of this kr trial i'd just have all the accused (i know they are all guilty) thrown in centri garbage truck and disposed of at the landfill.
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There are good reasons why you weren't put in charge of the trial. Acting like that makes you no different to them.Master Donut Baker wrote:if i were in charge of this kr trial i'd just have all the accused (i know they are all guilty) thrown in centri garbage truck and disposed of at the landfill.
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https://www.foxnews.com/world/last-khme ... life-termsBy Sopheng Cheang | Associated Press wrote:Last Khmer Rouge leaders guilty of genocide, get life terms
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The last surviving leaders of the communist Khmer Rouge regime that brutally ruled Cambodia in the 1970s were convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes Friday by an international tribunal.
Khieu Samphan, left, former Khmer Rouge head of state, and Nuon Chea, who was the Khmer Rouge's chief ideologist and No. 2 leader, were convicted of crimes against humanity Friday by an international tribunal. (Associated Press)
Nuon Chea (NOO'-ahn CHEE'-ah) and Khieu Samphan (KEE'-yoh sahm-PAHN') were sentenced to life in prison, the same punishment they are already serving after earlier convictions at a previous trial for crimes against humanity connected with forced transfers and mass disappearances. Cambodia has no death penalty.
oth men have suggested they were targets of political persecution. Nuon Chea was considered the main ideologist of the Khmer Rouge and the right-hand man of the group's late leader, Pol Pot, while Khieu Samphan served as the head of state, presenting a moderate veneer as the public face for the highly secretive group.
The verdict read aloud in the courtroom by Judge Nil Nonn established that the Khmer Rouge committed genocide against the Vietnamese and Cham minorities. Scholars had debated whether suppression of the Chams, a Muslim ethnic minority whose members had put up a small but futile resistance against the Khmer Rouge, amounted to genocide.
Members of the Cham community were among the large crowd of spectators who attended Friday's session.
The court found Khieu Samphan not guilty of genocide against the Cham, for insuffient evidence, though he was convicted of genocide against the Vietnamese under the principle of joint criminal enterprise, which holds individuals responsible for actions attributed to a group to which they belong.
The Khmer Rouge sought to achieve an agrarian utopia by emptying the cities to establish vast rural communes. Instead their radical policies led to what has been termed "auto-genocide" through starvation, overwork and execution.
The crimes against humanity convictions covered activities at work camps and cooperatives established by the Khmer Rouge. These offenses comprised murder, extermination, deportation, enslavement, imprisonment, torture, persecution on political, religious and racial grounds, attacks on human dignity, enforced disappearances, forced transfers, forced marriages and rape.
The breaches of the Geneva Convention governing war crimes included willful killing, torture or inhumane treatment.
One of the spectators at Friday's hearing was 65-year-old Sum Rithy, who said he had been jailed for nearly two years under the Khmer Rouge, who accused him of being a spy for the CIA. His life was spared only because he was a skilled mechanic who could maintain engines and generators for his captors.
Rithy said three of his siblings were killed by the Khmer Rouge, also accused of being CIA spies, while his father died of starvation.
"Today, I am very happy that the both Khmer Rouge leaders were sentenced to life in prison. The verdict was fair enough for me and other Cambodian victims," he said. "Last night, I could not sleep because I was afraid that Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan could die before this verdict was announced."
Nuon Chea, 92, was brought by ambulance and Khieu Samphan by van to the courthouse from the nearby prison where they are held. The prison and the courthouse were custom built for the use of the tribunal, which is officially called the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, or ECCC.
Nuon Chea, who suffers heart problems, was allowed to move from the hearing room to a separate holding room. Khieu Samphan, 87, was present for the entire hearing and with the help of two security guards stood as his sentence was read, showing no obvious emotion.
Lawyers for Nuon Chea said they would appeal, and Khieu Samphan was expected to do the same.
In addition to the two, the tribunal in 2010 convicted Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, who as head of the Khmer Rouge prison system ran the infamous Tuol Sleng torture center in Phnom Penh.
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Khmers in general must be among the most forgiving in the world. I'd have had that torturer's head on a pike soon after encountering him again, post-Vietnamese liberation, one way or another. How none of his surviving victims has machettied his sorry ass since is a mystery to me.
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Given that the number of his surviving victims must be near zero, even more reason to avenge those who died by his hand. They have no voice, their only reference they even existed at all are the bewildered faces staring from photographs.McPhisto wrote:Khmers in general must be among the most forgiving in the world. I'd have had that torturer's head on a pike soon after encountering him again, post-Vietnames liberation, one way or another. How none of his surviving victims has machettied his sorry ass since is a mystery to me.
Hope he has the hounds of hell ripping his throat out in nightmares.
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No no no my friend.kinard wrote: ↑Thu Nov 22, 2018 8:51 amGiven that the number of his surviving victims must be near zero, even more reason to avenge those who died by his hand. They have no voice, their only reference they even existed at all are the bewildered faces staring from photographs.McPhisto wrote:Khmers in general must be among the most forgiving in the world. I'd have had that torturer's head on a pike soon after encountering him again, post-Vietnames liberation, one way or another. How none of his surviving victims has machettied his sorry ass since is a mystery to me.
Hope he has the hounds of hell ripping his throat out in nightmares.
Every Cambodian over 40 years of age lived under Pol Pot rule. Please, do not dismiss them as mute "photo's on the wall".
You can honour them every day, face to face on every street, simply by a show of sincere respect.
...then he smiled again, and slipped away, further on up the stream
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