Police take former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan out of hospital
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Police took Khieu Samphan, the former Khmer Rouge head of state, out of the Phnom Penh hospital where he was being treated for a stroke and drove him away in a heavily guarded convoy Monday.
It was not immediately clear where he was being taken. Two officers helped Khieu Samphan, holding his arms as they led him to a police car, which sped away in a convoy of a half dozen police vehicles.
Khieu Samphan's arrest by a U.N.-backed genocide tribunal has been widely expected.
The tribunal has already arrested four of his colleagues to face trial for atrocities during the regime's 1975-79 rule that led to the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people.
He was hospitalized last Wednesday after suffering a stroke.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Police took Khieu Samphan, the former Khmer Rouge head of state, out of the Phnom Penh hospital where he was being treated for a stroke and drove him away in a heavily guarded convoy Monday.
It was not immediately clear where he was being taken. Two officers helped Khieu Samphan, holding his arms as they led him to a police car, which sped away in a convoy of a half dozen police vehicles.
Khieu Samphan's arrest by a U.N.-backed genocide tribunal has been widely expected.
The tribunal has already arrested four of his colleagues to face trial for atrocities during the regime's 1975-79 rule that led to the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people.
He was hospitalized last Wednesday after suffering a stroke.
7 comments:
What a news!This has to be done.
Still one more left. The one who had misled the innocenses to join the khmer rouge.
No, that one is okay. What they should do instead it to arrest all those who caused him to lose his throne. That way, we'll get to the root of the problem.
Many more bloodsuckers are still infested in Cambodia who should have been brought to justice.
Yeah, but you know how much the attorney fee is for each of those bloodsuckers, 1:25?
1:13PM you are right we "should arrest all those whose caused him to lose his throne" so he will not be so lonly. -his five and his family?
May be you too or your father who made bad thing behind his back!
Yeah, but my dad was killed by KR long ago, 2:36.
Me, I am neither pro-Sihanouk nor anti-Sihanouk, but I am 100% anti-Sarimatakist immoral westerner trained people who totally destroyed Cambodia.
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