By Adam Fifield
Inquirer Staff Writer
The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
The four most likely defendants of Cambodia's genocide tribunal are men who set and carried out the policies that devastated the country.
Known as Brother No. 3, Ieng Sary was the Khmer Rouge foreign minister. He was a confidant of enigmatic leader Pol Pot, Brother No. 1. According to scholars and legal experts, significant evidence suggests that he promoted arrests and executions. He has denied it.
Brother No. 2, Nuon Chea, the highest-ranking Khmer Rouge leader alive, allegedly devised and carried out execution policies. He has admitted he made "mistakes" but denied he was guilty of genocide.
Former Khmer Rouge President Khieu Samphan, who lives freely in the former stronghold of Pailin, was the public face of the regime. Experts say evidence shows he knew about the atrocities and failed to stop them. In 2004, he published a memoir contending he knew nothing about them.
"These are the people who gave the orders. They didn't take the orders," Cambodia scholar David Chandler said. Chandler wrote a biography of Pol Pot, who died in 1998.
Another likely defendant is in jail awaiting trial in Phnom Penh. Kang Kek Ieu, known as Duch, ran the notorious torture center Tuol Sleng, and the evidence against him is overwhelming. He has admitted overseeing executions and torture. One document lists 17 adults and children; at the bottom, Duch signed his name and wrote: "Kill them all."
Although Duch's tenure as the head of Tuol Sleng is well-documented, his attorney, Ka Savuth, insists Duch was only a deputy. Savuth said Duch "is happy to stand trial and tell everything to the court."
Known as Brother No. 3, Ieng Sary was the Khmer Rouge foreign minister. He was a confidant of enigmatic leader Pol Pot, Brother No. 1. According to scholars and legal experts, significant evidence suggests that he promoted arrests and executions. He has denied it.
Brother No. 2, Nuon Chea, the highest-ranking Khmer Rouge leader alive, allegedly devised and carried out execution policies. He has admitted he made "mistakes" but denied he was guilty of genocide.
Former Khmer Rouge President Khieu Samphan, who lives freely in the former stronghold of Pailin, was the public face of the regime. Experts say evidence shows he knew about the atrocities and failed to stop them. In 2004, he published a memoir contending he knew nothing about them.
"These are the people who gave the orders. They didn't take the orders," Cambodia scholar David Chandler said. Chandler wrote a biography of Pol Pot, who died in 1998.
Another likely defendant is in jail awaiting trial in Phnom Penh. Kang Kek Ieu, known as Duch, ran the notorious torture center Tuol Sleng, and the evidence against him is overwhelming. He has admitted overseeing executions and torture. One document lists 17 adults and children; at the bottom, Duch signed his name and wrote: "Kill them all."
Although Duch's tenure as the head of Tuol Sleng is well-documented, his attorney, Ka Savuth, insists Duch was only a deputy. Savuth said Duch "is happy to stand trial and tell everything to the court."
5 comments:
MY FATHER, MOTHER, 2 SISTERS AND ONE BROTHER WERE KILLED BY B-52 AT NEAK LEOUNG. WHO IS RESPONSIBLE ?
also, please dont forget Hanoi and US....dam VC!
Where is China?
Spanish killed Khmer King and many others. Portugal came and killed many Cambodians. The France came killed many cambodians ( when mother angry at their child, she would say AH BARANG BANH). Japane came killed a lot Cambodia. American came they killed alot of Cambodians. China came at night and
killed many many many Khmers. Siam and Yuon do not kill, but SAM LAP Khmers. This is the land of true
KILLING FIELD. Degree of killing is
not Khmer is the other. Now aday we're Cambodias have problems and cannot find a good solution from hate and killing. Please help......some one.
Bati
Retard2:12, China in was in
China. Get it? Only the US wasn't
in the US; they were in their B52
and and obliterated about 200,000
khmer peasants in Cambodia. You get
the picture?
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