20/07/2007
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
In Cambodia, the wife of a former Khmer Rouge leader has echoed her husband's recent denials of his involvement in crimes against humanity during the Khmer Rouge regime of the late 1970s.
Earlier this week, 76-year-old Khieu Samphan told journalists that he was a patriot, and not guilty.
Now in a rare interview, his wife has played down her husband's role during the Khmer Rouge years, describing it as insignificant.
So Socheat has told Radio Australia's Khmer Service that her husband never witnessed, nor had anything to do with any killings.
And she says there is not enough evidence for him to be tried by the Khmer Rouge tribunal.
Her comments came as prosecutors filed their first cases against surviving leaders of the regime.
The names of the five involved have not been made public.
The Khmer Rouge regime ruled Cambodia from April 1975 until January 1979, when it was defeated by invading Vietnamese forces.
An estimated two million people died from execution, exhaustion and starvation during the rule of the radical Maoist regime.
Earlier this week, 76-year-old Khieu Samphan told journalists that he was a patriot, and not guilty.
Now in a rare interview, his wife has played down her husband's role during the Khmer Rouge years, describing it as insignificant.
So Socheat has told Radio Australia's Khmer Service that her husband never witnessed, nor had anything to do with any killings.
And she says there is not enough evidence for him to be tried by the Khmer Rouge tribunal.
Her comments came as prosecutors filed their first cases against surviving leaders of the regime.
The names of the five involved have not been made public.
The Khmer Rouge regime ruled Cambodia from April 1975 until January 1979, when it was defeated by invading Vietnamese forces.
An estimated two million people died from execution, exhaustion and starvation during the rule of the radical Maoist regime.
3 comments:
Prorpon swa or wife of a monkey.
She lived in that Blood & pus regime. Why can she bitching up the storm to her high and mighty husband or something? She has to know some. Our people were dissapearing one by one. People were drying along the road like animals during the evacuvation of April in 1975.
It was a total silent and darkkest movement of our time and country. Something was very wrong woman! and for you to just sat,d watched or went along with your asshole husband, you too need to go to hell and paid for your crime!
This is the main problem. None of the KR, including the ex-King accepted that they did do a horrible mistake. These kind of people are compared the saying 'Min Keunh Kda Mchhus Min Ton Srok Toek Phnek'. As of today, they still live free, some even enoy a luxury life style like Ieng Sary.
Ah Pouk Osnis Doch Pouk Chor Anh Cheng. Tol Te Ke Chab Ban Ban Vea Sarapheap Tha Kloun Chea Chor!
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