Monday, July 26, 2010

Khmer Rouge's chief jailer found guilty of war crimes, will spend 19 years in Cambodia prison

Jul 26, 2010

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - A U.N.-backed tribunal has found the Khmer Rouge's chief jailer guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and says he will spend the next 19 years behind bars.

Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, listened impassively Monday as the chief judge read out the verdict - the first handed down against a senior member of the genocidal regime blamed for the deaths of 1.7 million people during their 1975-79 reign of terror.

Judge Nil Nonn noted that the defendant admitted to heading Tuol Sleng, a top-secret detention center for the worst "enemies" of the state, where more than 16,000 people were killed, many after being tortured.

The court sentenced him to 35 years in prison, but shaved off the 11 years he's already spent in detention and five more for cooperating with the court.

16 comments:

  1. Bit of confusion as to whether it's 19 years or 30, but 19 is fully inadequate. He deserves to spend a long, long life rotting behind bars with no realistic possibility of ever being released. 19 years doesn't do that.

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  2. Anonymous12:31 PM

    video Duch verdict ishere

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  3. Anonymous12:34 PM

    some rapists may serve as long as
    20 years in prison. sentencing this guy to 19 or 35 years is a joke.

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  4. Anonymous12:39 PM

    I hope he shares his bed in prison with a rapist!!!

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  5. Anonymous12:48 PM

    now he is 67 and if he spends 19 more years in prison, it is liking that he would still alive at the age of 86. during the 19 years that is coming, we don't know what will happen in Cambodia, and he also has chance to have his sentence farther reduced, let say during king's birthdays or prime minister hun sen's birthdays. who know!

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  6. Anonymous12:50 PM

    He should serve life in prison for the crime he committed.

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  7. Anonymous12:54 PM

    Oh, don't worry!

    When they let him out, he will be an old man and it only needs a slight blow to his head to finish him off.

    Many of us will be waiting for him then if he is still alive by that time.

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  8. Anonymous1:05 PM

    Has the God of Israel has something to do with his conversion for the light sentence?

    Jesus, what's your answer?

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  9. Anonymous1:56 PM

    365 x 30 = 10950 days (after 5 years reduction),
    10950 days / 16,000 lives = 0.684375 day/life,
    So each life worth about 16h30m of his jail time. It's a slap in the face of the victims and surviving relatives.

    He can live after his jail term or die tomorrow.

    - If he dies tomorrow, the jail time per life calculation is even worse, but it satisfies the life term sentence (if the court did give him life time).

    - If he continue to live pass his jail term then this sentence has not given justice to the victims. The calculation above shows the value of the victim's life this court give (far much less than an animal)

    What does this court think?

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  10. Anonymous2:32 PM

    The case #1 is done and the case #2, #3, and so on are much more important so they should be done in the shorter period of time. To me and many more, Duch should received death sentence compare with the crime he committed.

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  11. Anonymous7:51 PM

    Its not justice until Duch names more khmer rouge member!

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  12. Anonymous9:34 PM

    It would be better of just let him go FREE! the 19 years is a JOKE!!!! why bothering? just let him go FREE?? those stupid judges!!!

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  13. Anonymous11:58 PM

    Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime

    Members:
    Pol Pot
    Nuon Chea
    Ieng Sary
    Ta Mok
    Khieu Samphan
    Son Sen
    Ieng Thearith
    Kaing Kek Iev
    Hun Sen
    Chea Sim
    Heng Samrin
    Hor Namhong
    Keat Chhon
    Ouk Bunchhoeun
    Sim Ka...

    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

    Members:
    Hun Sen
    Chea Sim
    Heng Samrin
    Hor Namhong
    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. 

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  14. Anonymous1:16 AM

    Who killed 1.7 million innocent Khmer peoples?

    a) Pol Pot
    b) Nuon Chea
    c) Ta Mok 
    d) Khieu Samphan 
    e) Son Sen 
    f) Kang Guek Eav
    g) Ieng Sary 
    h) Ieng Thearith
    i) Chea Sim
    j) Heng Samrin
    k) Hor Namhong
    l) Keat Chhon
    m) Ouk Bunchhoeun
    n) Sim Ka
    o) Hun Sen...
    p) all of above

    Source:
    DC-CAM

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  15. Anonymous1:28 AM

    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) Kang Guek Eav
    g) Ieng Sary 
    h) Ieng Thearith
    i) Chea Sim
    j) Heng Samrin
    k) Hor Namhong
    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 summon by the UN back Khmer Rouge Tribunal court (EEEC).

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  16. Anonymous3:03 AM

    Which one of these Khmer Rouge(s) list below is chief of Boeung Trabek prison?

    a) Pol Pot
    b) Nuon Chea
    c) Ta Mok 
    d) Khieu Samphan 
    e) Son Sen 
    f) Kang Guek Eav
    g) Ieng Sary 
    h) Ieng Thearith
    i) Chea Sim
    j) Heng Samrin
    k) HOR NAMHONG
    l) Keat Chhon
    m) Ouk Bunchhoeun
    n) Sim Ka
    o) Hun Sen

    Source:
    DC-CAM

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