Unraveling the Khmer Rouge Killing Fields.

[iGas]

It is sad that the collective society haven't have the gull to put the Khmer Rouge on trial earlier, because they afraid that Pol Pot might implicated the British & the US as accomplice. And, the same people that did the killings now are high ranking Cambodia government officials.

There will never be true justice in this vile world that we are living in.

Khmer Rouge prison torturers finally put on trial

Of the 14,000 Cambodians held in the brutal Khmer Rouge prison of Tuol Sleng, barely a dozen survive. Chum Mei is one of them, and this week he will finally see his torturers put on trial. Andrew Buncombe reports from Phnom Penh

 

[fskimospy]

I visited that prison a few years back, along with the killing fields. The two things that stood out to me were first how insanely atrocious they were. In my humble opinion the Khmer Rouge were worse than the Nazis. Second thing that stood out to me was how the Cambodian government was seeking to profit from the tourism to the locations of torture and genocide. (at least in the case of Tuol Sleng, also known as S-21)

 

[sisq0kidd]

Sorry to bump a 2 day old thread, but didn't see it until now.

Very good to hear someone is being held responsible for the genocide. I lost an uncle I never knew and a few more family members to this whole event. I still can't wrap my mind around the fact that every single older generational figure in my life had to walk through jungles and fields, stay in interment camps, live on a cup of rice a day and wonder every night when their time would come to be executed.

One of the problems in the Cambodian community though is that we don't exactly know who was responsible for the killings other than notable high ranking officials. Some of those responsible for the killings may very well be our neighbors here and back in Cambodia.

Thanks for the article.

 

[OCGuy]

Of course, it is all big bad US's fault. We are the international boogyman.



:roll:

 

[fskimospy]

Originally posted by: Ocguy31
Of course, it is all big bad US's fault. We are the international boogyman.

:roll:

Huh?

 

[CitizenKain]

Originally posted by: eskimospy

Originally posted by: Ocguy31
Of course, it is all big bad US's fault. We are the international boogyman.

:roll:

Huh?

You cannot speak ill of the Great America, we have done no wrong, can do no wrong. To do so is Un-American.

 

[Farang]

Originally posted by: sisq0kidd
One of the problems in the Cambodian community though is that we don't exactly know who was responsible for the killings other than notable high ranking officials. Some of those responsible for the killings may very well be our neighbors here and back in Cambodia.

Thanks for the article.

This is very true, from what I was told by people over there a lot of them were Khmer Rouge and also were victims or their families were victims at some point. So it is just a mixed bag, victims are perpetrators and vice versa. If you were to punish everyone half the people over a certain age (most of the men) would be in jail. It seems like what Cambodia has chosen to do is try to move on, they have enough shit to deal with. I tend to agree. If the U.N. wants to go after some old guys, I support that, but let's not be distracted from the real problems in that country.