Nuon Chea: Khmer Rouge 'were not bad people'

[alp227]

Pol Pot's deputy has told a court the Khmer Rouge were not "bad people", blaming deaths of Cambodians under the Maoist regime on neighbouring Vietnam.

Nuon Chea made the comments at his genocide trial at a UN-backed court in Phnom Penh.

It is the first time he has faced questioning over his role in the regime's four-year rule, which left as many as two million Cambodians dead.

His trial began last month - only the second at the court.

full: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16028435

[gratuitous]

1. Like he's going to say, "Yeah, we were heartless butchers"

Wouldn't it be nice to see a similar proceeding - questioning under oath, separately and in an open proceeding - for Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney?

[Solly Mack]

5. but...but...but (insert exception of choice)

I agree, actually.

[xchrom]

2. Kinda like genghis khan wasn't a bad guy or

Jack the ripper wasn't a bad guy or... Well you get the idea.

[LynneSin]

3. Yes and Adolph Hitler loved children and pets PLUS he was a vegetarian

:eyes:

[Taverner]

4. "But we're the good guys!"

:eyes:

[Posteritatis]

6. Yes they were. Next! (nt)

[Mojeoux]

7. In '92 a kid in my College of Marin Speech Class

told us about his family's escape. I will never forget how he said that as they traveled, they couldn't drink from the wells and public watering holes, because they were tainted by dead bodies.
All of us in the class were in tears when he was done, just devastating.

[grantcart]

8. I helped resettle about 170,000 Khmers who would disagree.

And we all stood up and cheered the NVA when they swept these murders away.