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dipsydoodle

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Tue Jul-31-07 10:40 AM
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First Khmer Rouge leader charged

Source: BBC News

An ex-Khmer Rouge prison chief has been charged with crimes against humanity by a UN-backed tribunal in Cambodia.
Kang Kek Ieu, also known as Duch, was in charge of the notorious S21 jail in the country's capital, Phnom Penh.

Duch is the first of five suspects whom prosecutors have asked the tribunal to investigate over their role in the brutal Khmer Rouge regime.

More than a million people are thought to have died during the four years of Khmer Rouge rule between 1975-79.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6924371.stm

Hope it doesn't take 30 years to get all of the current culprits to The Hague.

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Caoimhe

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Tue Jul-31-07 10:55 AM
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1. Didn't they perfect the practice of WATERBOARDING?

Maybe that guy should hire Alberto Gonzalez as his personal defense attorney.

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daleo

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Tue Jul-31-07 11:09 AM
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2. Or perhaps Gonzalez et al will face charges some day

Plus Bush, Blair and the other war-mongers.

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David__77

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Tue Jul-31-07 11:46 AM
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3. Why is it a UN trial?

Why isn't the Cambodian justice system handling the affair as most countries would?

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karynnj

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Tue Jul-31-07 12:40 PM
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4. It' s a UN threaty the Cambodains agreed on

Edited on Tue Jul-31-07 12:42 PM by karynnj

It gives somepower to the Cambodiand and some to the UN. After a long time with no accepted fomat, John Kerry negotiated it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=905152

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dipsydoodle

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Tue Jul-31-07 12:59 PM
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6. Good link that

Thanks.

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dipsydoodle

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Tue Jul-31-07 12:42 PM
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5. This link may help to explain

The tribunal finally agreed upon differs from other genocide trials around the world as it is a hybrid that will take place under the Cambodian justice system with input from UN-appointed international judges and lawyers.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2138568,00.html

see here too : http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/187857.html

and here : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=MEZHEOHBDJQHTQFIQMGSFFOAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2007/07/31/wrouge131.xml

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WhiteTara

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Tue Jul-31-07 05:34 PM
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7. I'm so happy that justice is being served

Edited on Tue Jul-31-07 05:35 PM by BareNakedLiberal

somewhere on this planet. The horrors that man caused are unimaginable and I hope that he is faced with each and every single one of them.

IMPEACH GEORGE BUSH AND SEND THEM ALL TO THE HAGUE

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