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Coventina (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Jul-14-09 11:31 AM
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Khmer Rouge interrogator says "no regrets" about deaths
Source: Reuters

PHNOM PENH, July 14 (Reuters) - A former interrogator at the Khmer Rouge's notorious S-21 prison on Tuesday expressed no remorse for the deaths of thousands of Cambodians who he said had all committed crimes.

Appearing as a prosecution witness in the trial of Duch, Pol Pot's head jailor, Mam Nay, also known as Chan, denied any part in torture or killings of prisoners and blamed the United States and Vietnam for undermining his country.

An estimated 1.7 million people died during the Khmer Rouge's four-year "killing fields" reign of terror, which ended when Vietnamese forces invaded in 1979.

Asked by the judge if he regretted what happened at the Tuol Sleng prison, where more than 14,000 men, women and children were killed, Chan showed no remorse.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/asiaCrisis/idUSBKK498314


While it is true that the U.S. did undermine his country, it was the KR that benefitted from it. He must have forgotten that we supported Pol Pot.
Too bad this scum has immunity for testifying against his former boss....

Anyway, please read the entire article.
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   Dinial..  Stuart G   Jul-14-09 11:41 AM   #1 
   Really, what crime did the newborn babies commit that earned  Coventina   Jul-14-09 11:48 AM   #2 
      Wearing glasses under the KR was a capital crime  Posteritatis   Jul-14-09 08:23 PM   #7 
         Hadn't heard about the glasses, but having soft hands (no callouses)  Coventina   Jul-14-09 08:35 PM   #8 
   Okay, so apparently we have Khmer Rouge supporters on this board.  Coventina   Jul-14-09 12:38 PM   #3 
   Are you sure this isn't about Dick and/or Liz Cheney?  GodlessBiker   Jul-14-09 02:57 PM   #4 
   A Khmer Rouge Dick Cheyney  CanonRay   Jul-14-09 08:11 PM   #5 
   dude sounds exactly like a Nazi defendant  provis99   Jul-14-09 08:13 PM   #6 
 
Stuart G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Jul-14-09 11:41 AM
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1. Dinial..
How does one deal with this? No remorse? All had committed crimes..and he didn't?
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Coventina (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Jul-14-09 11:48 AM
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2. Really, what crime did the newborn babies commit that earned
the KR death penalty?
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Jul-14-09 08:23 PM
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7. Wearing glasses under the KR was a capital crime
Being born under them's got to be up there as well, with the logic that hellhole ran on.
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Coventina (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Jul-14-09 08:35 PM
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8. Hadn't heard about the glasses, but having soft hands (no callouses)
could get you tortured and executed as well.
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Coventina (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Jul-14-09 12:38 PM
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3. Okay, so apparently we have Khmer Rouge supporters on this board.
I mean, this "unrecommend" really takes the cake.

What are you? Pol Pot's long-lost brother?

Unreal!!
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GodlessBiker (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Jul-14-09 02:57 PM
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4. Are you sure this isn't about Dick and/or Liz Cheney?
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CanonRay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Jul-14-09 08:11 PM
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5. A Khmer Rouge Dick Cheyney
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provis99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Jul-14-09 08:13 PM
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6. dude sounds exactly like a Nazi defendant
they all claim that they didn't know, or that they were just following legal orders, or that they didn't do the most vicious stuff, or that the victims deserved it. He should get the same punishment that the Nazi defendants got at Nuremberg; unfortunately Cambodia doesn't have the death penalty.
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