Pittsburgh Tribune (USA)
Opinion
The ridiculously short prison sentence that a United Nations-backed court handed to the man who was the commandant of the Khmer Rouge's central prison is one more example of the U.N. failing to deliver true justice for violators of human rights and their victims.
Convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity -- he oversaw the killing and torture of more than 14,000 people -- Kaing Guek Eav, 67, ostensibly was sentenced to 35 years in prison, a term far short of punishment in proper proportion to his perpetration of evil. But due to time served, including time in "illegal military detention," the court reduced his sentence to just 19 years.
Survivors of Khmer Rouge brutality rightly are outraged. He deserves the death penalty, which Cambodia lacks -- but he's just the sort of butcher for whom an exception is in order.
Any sentence less than death is unfit for Khmer Rouge leaders and unjust for the victims of their repugnant "killing fields." Some might argue that given this criminal's age, it is a death sentence. But that's not the point.
This sentence squanders an opportunity to make an ultimate example of the first senior Khmer Rouge official held accountable for violating human rights -- and that bodes ill for the cases of four other Khmer Rouge leaders awaiting trial by the same U.N.-backed court.
Convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity -- he oversaw the killing and torture of more than 14,000 people -- Kaing Guek Eav, 67, ostensibly was sentenced to 35 years in prison, a term far short of punishment in proper proportion to his perpetration of evil. But due to time served, including time in "illegal military detention," the court reduced his sentence to just 19 years.
Survivors of Khmer Rouge brutality rightly are outraged. He deserves the death penalty, which Cambodia lacks -- but he's just the sort of butcher for whom an exception is in order.
Any sentence less than death is unfit for Khmer Rouge leaders and unjust for the victims of their repugnant "killing fields." Some might argue that given this criminal's age, it is a death sentence. But that's not the point.
This sentence squanders an opportunity to make an ultimate example of the first senior Khmer Rouge official held accountable for violating human rights -- and that bodes ill for the cases of four other Khmer Rouge leaders awaiting trial by the same U.N.-backed court.
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Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime's leaders and members:
Pol Pot
Nuon Chea
Ieng Sary
Ta Mok
Khieu Samphan
Son Sen
Ieng Thearith
Kaing Guek Eav aka Samak Mith Duch
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong aka Samak Mith Yaem
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka
Hun Sen...
Committed:
Tortures
Brutality
Executions
Massacres
Mass Murder
Genocide
Atrocities
Crimes Against Humanity
Starvations
Slavery
Force Labour
Overwork to Death
Human Abuses
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime's leaders and members:
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong aka Samak Mith Yaem
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
Committed:
Attempted Murders
Attempted Murder on Chea Vichea
Attempted Assassinations
Attempted Assassination on Sam Rainsy
Assassinations
Assassinated Journalists
Assassinated Political Opponents
Assassinated Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Assassinated over 80 members of Sam Rainsy Party.
Sam Rainsy LIC 31 October 2009 - Cairo, Egypt
"As of today, over eighty members of my party have been assassinated. Countless others have been injured, arrested, jailed, or forced to go into hiding or into exile."
Executions
Executed over 100 members of FUNCINPEC Party
Murders
Murdered 3 Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Murdered Chea Vichea
Murdered Ros Sovannareth
Murdered Hy Vuthy
Murdered 10 Journalists
Murdered Khim Sambo
Murdered Khim Sambo's son
Murdered members of Sam Rainsy Party.
Murdered activists of Sam Rainsy Party
Murdered Innocent Men
Murdered Innocent Women
Murdered Innocent Children
Killed Innocent Khmer Peoples.
Extrajudicial Execution
Grenade Attack
Terrorism
Drive by Shooting
Brutalities
Police Brutality Against Monks
Police Brutality Against Evictees
Tortures
Intimidations
Death Threats
Threatening
Human Abductions
Human Abuses
Human Rights Abuses
Human Trafficking
Drugs Trafficking
Under Age Child Sex
Corruptions
Bribery
Embezzlement
Treason
Border Encroachment, allow Vietnam to encroaching into Cambodia.
Signed away our territories to Vietnam; Koh Tral, almost half of our ocean territory oil field and others.
Illegal Arrest
Illegal Mass Evictions
Illegal Land Grabbing
Illegal Firearms
Illegal Logging
Illegal Deforestation
Illegally use of remote detonate bomb on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and other military officials were on board.
Lightning strike many airplanes, but did not fall from the sky. Lightning strike out side of airplane and discharge electricity to ground.
Source: Lightning, Discovery Channel
Illegally Sold State Properties
Illegally Removed Parliamentary Immunity of Parliament Members
Plunder National Resources
Acid Attacks
Turn Cambodia into a Lawless Country.
Oppression
Injustice
Steal Votes
Bring Foreigners from Vietnam to vote in Cambodia for Cambodian People's Party.
Use Dead people's names to vote for Cambodian People's Party.
Disqualified potential Sam Rainsy Party's voters.
Abuse the Court as a tools for CPP to send political opponents and journalists to jail.
Abuse of Power
Abuse the Laws
Abuse the National Election Committee
Abuse the National Assembly
Violate the Laws
Violate the Constitution
Violate the Paris Accords
Impunity
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
Death in custody.
Under the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime, no criminals that has been committed crimes against journalists, political opponents, leaders of the Free Trade Union, innocent men, women and children have ever been brought to justice.
Who killed 1.7 million innocent Khmer peoples?
a) Pol Pot
b) Nuon Chea
c) Ta Mok
d) Khieu Samphan
e) Son Sen
f) Kaing Guek Eav aka Samak Mith Duch
g) Ieng Sary
h) Ieng Thearith
i) Chea Sim
j) Heng Samrin
k) Hor Namhong aka Samak Mith Yaem
l) Keat Chhon
m) Ouk Bunchhoeun
n) Sim Ka
o) Hun Sen...
p) all of above
Source:
DC-CAM
Document Center of Cambodia
On October 7, 2009 Chea Sim, Heng Samrin, Hor Namhong, Keat Chhon, Ouk Bunchhoeun and Sim Ka has been summoned by the UN back Khmer Rouge Tribunal court (ECCC).
Which one of these Khmer Rouge(s) list below is the current Khmer Rouge Regime's leader?
a) Pol Pot
b) Nuon Chea
c) Ta Mok
d) Khieu Samphan
e) Son Sen
f) Kaing Guek Eav aka Samak Mith Duch
g) Ieng Sary
h) Ieng Thearith
i) Chea Sim
j) Heng Samrin
k) Hor Namhong aka Samak Mith Yaem
l) Keat Chhon
m) Ouk Bunchhoeun
n) Sim Ka
o) Hun Sen
Fact:
Pol Pot is a Khmer Rouge leader of the Democratic Kampuchea Khmer Rouge Regime.
Hun Sen was a Khmer Rouge commander of the Democratic Kampuchea Khmer Rouge Regime and now, a Khmer Rouge leader of the Cambodian People's Party Khmer Rouge Regime.
Chea Sim, Heng Samrin, Hor Namhong, Keat Chhon, Ouk Bunchhoeun and Sim Ka has been summoned by the UN backed Khmer Rouge Tribunal court (ECCC).
Which one of these Khmer Rouge(s) list below is a prison chief of Boeung Trabek prison B32?
a) Pol Pot
b) Nuon Chea
c) Ta Mok
d) Khieu Samphan
e) Son Sen
f) Kaing Guek Eav aka Samak Mith Duch
g) Ieng Sary
h) Ieng Thearith
i) Chea Sim
j) Heng Samrin
k) Hor Namhong aka Samak Mith Yaem
l) Keat Chhon
m) Ouk Bunchhoeun
n) Sim Ka
o) Hun Sen
Source:
DC-CAM
Document Center of Cambodia
Fact:
During the Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime;
There are 196 prisons.
There are 196 prison chiefs.
There are 1.7 million innocent Khmer peoples killed by the Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime.
Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime's leaders and members:
Pol Pot
Nuon Chea
Ieng Sary
Ta Mok
Khieu Samphan
Son Sen
Ieng Thearith
Kaing Guek Eav aka Samak Mith Duch
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka
Hun Sen...
Kaing Guek Eav is a prison chief of Toul Sleng prison S21.
Source:
DC-CAM
Document Center of Cambodia
The UN backed Khmer Rouge Tribunal court (ECCC) must indict 195 other prison chiefs.
"I will not allow the UN backed Khmer Rouge Tribunal court (ECCC) to indict more Khmer Rouge Regime leaders, I rather let the court (KRT ECCC) fail. Indict more Khmer Rouge Regime's leaders will lead the country into a civil war."
Samak Mith Hun Sen
Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime's leader
Samak Mith Hun Sen will not allow the UN backed Khmer Rouge Tribunal court (ECCC) to indict more Khmer Rouge Regime leaders who is responsible for killing 1.7 million innocent Khmer peoples.
Samak Mith Hun Sen threaten to turn Cambodia back into the Killing Fields all over again.
War with whom?
War with innocent Khmer peoples without weapon?
Once a Khmer Rouge, always a Khmer Rouge.
A good Khmer Rouge(s) is a dead Khmer Rouge(s)
Khmer Rouge(s) continue to kill innocent Khmer peoples.
Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime's leaders and members:
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong aka Samak Mith Yaem
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
"(Samak Mith) Duch (Kaing Guek Eav) 19 years sentence is too short and doesn't fit his crimes."
Samak Mith Yaem (Hor Namhong)
Prison Chief of Boeung Trabek prison B32
What's Hor Namhong trying to do is, he want the whole world to know that he is not a Khmer Rouge and a prison chief of Boeung Trabek prison.
Hor Namhong is a prison chief of Boeung Trabek prison B32.
Source:
Phnom Penh Post
Hor Namhong said to the French judge that he is not a prison chief of Boeung Trabek prison, in fact members of his family was killed by Khmer Rouge(s).
Hor Namhong can lies all he want, at the end, he got summoned and will get indict, prosecute, convict and sentence.
Criminals likes to lies.
The place where criminals lies the most is inside the court room in front of the judge(s).
On October 7, 2009 Chea Sim, Heng Samrin, Hor Namhong, Keat Chhon, Ouk Bunchhoeun and Sim Ka has been summoned by the UN backed Khmer Rouge Tribunal court (ECCC).
who give a fuck about the law just hang them all anyway.
CPP vs. trg "tiny rats group"
From a simple gesture made by Aki Ra whom was once a Khmer Rouge due to his younger age and lacked of life experience, thus he has no choice but to join the Khmer Rouge and has been indoctrinated to by ill minds of the regime leaders and led him to lay all these mines in Cambodia. No one can blame Aki Ra for joining the Khmer Rouge, it was a choice with choices. This has clearly shown that Cambodia was once a dangerous place in a dangerous time that led to the atrocity since Hitler Days against the Jews. But questions remain to be illusive as to whom invented these mines, bombs and other life threatening pieces of destructions, and brought into the gentle land of Cambodia. Cambodia is not a country that has a capacity to invent such destructive objects that can kill. Cambodia is a country that believes in Buddhism, to say that this country is a country of evil and killed all these lives and to blame Cambodia alone is rather ludicrous and insane and that perpetrators are still on the loose. No one dare to look into China, US and Russia which were the countries that have the capacity to invent such objects that can kill, having said that, it leads us to the Trial of Khmer Rouge. The entire regime rest assure on one man and his name is Duch or Kaing Gek Iev. How can one man did all these killings when he was just a prison guard. Who gave the orders to kill? What crimes have these victims done against the state that deserve such torture and suffering and severe punishment that no one had ever seen in history of mankind? Where did the Khmer Rouge get their method of killings from? Who show Khmer Rouge how to kill? What purpose behind these killings? Who will gain from these killings at the end? There are so many questions that must be answered and yet, there is only one man to be convicted at the end. How can one man get 35 years and now reduced to 19 years sentenced be equal to 1.75 millions of lives that this regime has destroyed? Millions of dollars have been spent, many effortless hours have been put into the process, not just in Cambodia, but the across the golbe. There has to be more than a one man show. Why Duch? Why Kaing Gek Iev? Why him and why now? What about Khieu Samphon? What about Noun Chea? What Khieu Khanarith? What about Sihanouk? What about those that we dont know about that are still alive today? At the end...the life of one Khmer do worth nothing, when Angkor was such a great legacy to all who are known as Khmers and live in one of the greatest Empire of its time.
Thank You. My tears have been shed and my blood has been spilled. Along the way I have lost more than 20 members of my relatives, but above all what is really precious to me, it was time and education to which that I have lost during my younger days.
Cambodia, my country, I will make a vow to you that one day I shall return to lead you before my days are done.
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