By Associated Press,
The Washington Post
Updated: Tuesday, December
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The No. 2 leader of Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime told a court he and his comrades were not “bad people,” denying responsibility Monday for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians during their 1970s rule.
Nuon Chea’s defiant statements came as the U.N.-backed tribunal began questioning him for the first time since the long-awaited trial of three top regime leaders began late last month. Nuon Chea and two other Khmer Rouge leaders are accused of crimes against humanity, genocide, religious persecution, homicide and torture stemming from the group’s 1975-79 reign of terror. All have denied wrongdoing.
The trusted deputy of the late Pol Pot, Nuon Chea blamed neighboring Vietnam for the atrocities that occurred, reiterating long-standing Khmer Rouge’s claims that the mass graves discovered subsequently were of people killed by Vietnamese armed forces.
4 comments:
Yes the KR are not bad. They just killed Khmer people for pleasure.They raped beautiful girls and killed them also for pleasure.
It's the nature of the communist and all dictators. They never recognized their fault.
Life sentence for these crininal KR is too light because how long they will endure their in the prison? Maybe they will die before the sentence is pronounced, or they will die 2 or 5 year after the sentence... and that's finished.
They deserve one HUNDRED years or MORE of LIFE in PRISOM. That's mean after their death, their graves must be CHAINED untill the end of the sentence.
Yes, I really love my nation but not my people.
It is known that the Vietnamese played a huge impact on the outcome of the Pol Pot regime. We must put Sihanouk, Hun Sen, Chea Sim, Hor Nam Hong on trials to testify, as they also played important roles.
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