AFP
Top Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea was formally arrested Wednesday by a UN-backed genocide tribunal, court officials said after police earlier seized him from his home in northwest Cambodia.
"Nuon Chea arrived at the court. He was brought before the office of the co-investigating judges... on execution of an arrest warrant," tribunal spokesman Reach Sambath told AFP.
He said Nuon Chea would be informed of the charges being brought against him, but did not say what those charges would be.
The 82-year-old, known as "Brother Number Two", was Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot's most trusted lieutenant and allegedly a key architect of the regime's horrific execution policies.
Nuon Chea is the first of a small group of former top cadres living freely in Cambodia to be arrested by tribunal authorities, prompting many who lost relatives to wonder why they have been left alone for so many years.
His rank in the communist hierarchy and alleged decision-making role would make him the most significant defendant to be tried for crimes committed under the 1975-79 regime by the tribunal, which was established last year.
Up to two million people died of starvation, disease and overwork, or were executed under the Khmer Rouge.
The regime abolished religion, schools and currency, exiling millions to vast collective farms in a bid to create an agrarian utopia.
"Nuon Chea arrived at the court. He was brought before the office of the co-investigating judges... on execution of an arrest warrant," tribunal spokesman Reach Sambath told AFP.
He said Nuon Chea would be informed of the charges being brought against him, but did not say what those charges would be.
The 82-year-old, known as "Brother Number Two", was Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot's most trusted lieutenant and allegedly a key architect of the regime's horrific execution policies.
Nuon Chea is the first of a small group of former top cadres living freely in Cambodia to be arrested by tribunal authorities, prompting many who lost relatives to wonder why they have been left alone for so many years.
His rank in the communist hierarchy and alleged decision-making role would make him the most significant defendant to be tried for crimes committed under the 1975-79 regime by the tribunal, which was established last year.
Up to two million people died of starvation, disease and overwork, or were executed under the Khmer Rouge.
The regime abolished religion, schools and currency, exiling millions to vast collective farms in a bid to create an agrarian utopia.
7 comments:
Come on! who is next?
Now can we have the volunteer first, before you are called.
Be brave enought as you used to kill Khmers, OK!
I TOTALLY AGREED WITH THE BROTHER DATED 2:09.
SO, HOPEFULLY THE KRT GO SUCCESSFULLY AND OTHER INFO WILL REVEALS TO THE PUBLIC. JUST LIKE RECENTLY, BECAUSE KING-TA IS UNDER-PRESSURED. HE SPEAKS ABOUT THE "US" PLANNED COUPE, AND ITS BOMBING. SO THE MORE THINGS COMES OUT THE CLOSET THE BETTER FOR THE PUBLIC AND THE TRUTH WHAT WE ALL WAITING TO KNOW. I THINK EVERYONE INVOLVE SHOULD ATLEAST BE TRIAL !
ONLY WITH THE PUBLIC AWARE-ABOUT WILL THERE BE MORE DEMAND FOR JUSTICE FOR CAMBODIA, AND ITS PEOPLE. AND FROM THAT, THERE WILL BE LESS OPPRESSION AND LESS AGRESSION.
I DREAM ONE DAY, KHMER KROM AND KHMER ALL OVER WILL BE UNITED AGAIN.
He's deserved to be in jail. Wishing that he is still a live before the official charge has been filed.
Only Khmer Rouge, Hun Sen, his regime, Sihanouk, China, and Vietnam need to be trial. The rest are exemption. Hang Hun Sen first before hanging anybody else because he committed treason and killing to Khmer people and her lands. At least Khmer Rouge didn't give away Khmer land to Hanoi like Hun Sen. Therefore Hun Sen committed more crimes than his former boss, Sihanouk and KR.
I hope they used the rope and tied both of his uper arms in the back and tighten it so tight that he can't breath. I'm sure he can still remember the technic.
"Sometime I don't even know what this Khmer Rouge or Khmer Vietminh is all about!"
Thats a very good question. It took me years to come up with an answer. To better understand the KR situation. You have to think about a birth of a communist country. Do some research on communist-Russia and cross check it with other communist countries like China, Cuba and so on. They are all the same. The first thing they do is "purge" the country. First, they take out the military officers followed by key government leaders. Then its citizens who didn't believe in communism. Its all about systematic control over its people. Its an attempt to create a equal society. If you every read about Marxism-communism. Its a great ideology and on paper it looks better than capitalism.
Sad to see the genocide maker (Vietnamese Communist) sit tigh and watch the products they made got convicted and they are free.
A lot of Viet Rouge are in civilian Khmer like Hok Lundy, Hor Nam Hong, Tioun..through Sva Kin Hong whose hands full of blood are not in the list.
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