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Clinton Urges Human Rights Progress in Cambodia
By not in system - AOL NewsPHNOM PENH, Cambodia (Oct. 31) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday urged Cambodia to improve its human rights record and ensure the Khmer Rouge are brought to justice for crimes against humanity in the 1970s. Clinton was in the capital, Phnom Penh, where she visited the main Khmer Rouge prison and torture center before appealing to Cambodian officials to overcome a legacy of impunity for abuses. The government has refused to allow a U.N.-backed court trying top Khmer Rouge leaders to prosecute lower-ranking members. Clinton toured the infamous S-21 prison where as many ...
Embattled Court Indicts 4 Khmer Rouge Leaders
By Mike Eckel - AOL NewsPHNOM PENH, Cambodia (Sept. 16) -- A United Nations-backed tribunal today indicted four senior Khmer Rouge officials, setting up the most important legal reckoning yet with the radical communist movement whose utopian agricultural policies led to the deaths of as much as one-quarter of Cambodia's population in the late 1970s. The court, formally known as the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, accused Nuon Chea, the top deputy to Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, of crimes against humanity, genocide and other charges. Also indicted were Khieu Samphan, who was head of state from 1976 ...
Outrage at Cambodian Holocaust Killer's Sentence
By Terence Neilan - AOL News(July 26) -- The man who ran a prison and torture center for the Khmer Rouge where more than 15,000 people were killed was convicted today in Cambodia of war crimes and crimes against humanity. But his 19-year prison sentence was met with tears, outrage and disbelief by survivors. "I felt it was a slap in the face," said Bou Beng, 69, according to The New York Times. He testified about his torture at the trial of Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch. "He tricked everybody," said Chum Mey, 79, another survivor of the Tuol Sleng prison. "I feel like I was a victim under the Khmer Rouge, and ...
Khmer Rouge Jailer Faces 19 Years in 16,000 Deaths
By not in system - AOL NewsPHNOM PENH, Cambodia (July 26) -- A war crimes tribunal convicted and sentenced the Khmer Rouge's chief jailer Monday for overseeing the deaths of up to 16,000 people, in the first verdict involving a senior member of the "killing fields" regime that devastated a generation of Cambodians. Victims and their relatives burst into tears after hearing that a 35-year sentence given to Kaing Guek Eav - also known as Duch - had been whittled down to just 19 after taking into account time already served and other factors. That effectively means the 67-year-old could one day walk free. "I can't ...
Beyond the Killing Fields? Not as Long as Brutal Wars Remain a Growth Industry
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyFive Politics Daily staffers -- Carl Cannon, Melinda Henneberger, Walter Shapiro, David Wood and James Grady -- are joining in an online discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg about politics and the press as seen through the prism of his new book, "Beyond The Killing Fields." In today's essay, Walter Shapiro notes that more than three decades after the genocide in Cambodia, all of us are still grappling to find a larger meaning embedded in the horrors of the Killing Fields. Decades from now when, alas, The New York Times is a distant memory ...
'Beyond the Killing Fields': On the Language of War
By Sydney Schanberg - Politics DailyFive Politics Daily staffers -- Carl Cannon, Melinda Henneberger, Walter Shapiro, David Wood and James Grady -- are joining in an online discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg, about politics and the press as seen through the prism of his new book, "Beyond The Killing Fields" and his reporting career. Here is Schanberg's response to Grady, who asked him to expand on the concept of language as a political weapon and also talk a bit about some of the truly Orwellian examples of Khmer Rouge "politically correct" speech. As you point out, language ...
Cambodian Coup Leader Gets Life Sentence in US
By Scott Martelle - AOL NewsLOS ANGELES (June 22) -- The former leader of a California-based group of Cambodian expatriates who embarked on a failed coup attempt in their home country was sentenced today to life without parole in a U.S. prison. Yasith Chhun, 53, was convicted two years ago of conspiring to kill in a foreign country and of violating the federal Neutrality Act by engaging in a military foray against a nation with which the U.S. is not at war. He also was convicted of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction. Chhun was the leader of the Long Beach-based Cambodian Freedom Fighters when it tried to ...
Dith Pran Taken, Not by Killing Fields
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThe New York Times reports that photojournalist Dith Pran, subject of the film, The Killing Fields, has died at the age of 65:Dith Pran, a photojournalist for The New York Times whose gruesome ordeal in the killing fields of Cambodia was re-created in a 1984 movie that gave him an eminence he tenaciously used to press for his people's rights, died in New Brunswick, N.J., on Sunday. He was 65 and lived in Woodbridge, N.J.The cause was pancreatic cancer, which had spread, said his friend Sydney H. Schanberg.Anyone unfamiliar with Pran's story should check out The Killing Fields, but be prepared ...
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