Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Event puts Khmer Rouge leaders on `trial'

(Photo: AP)
04/25/2011
Greg Mellen, Staff Writer
Long Beach Press Telegram (California, USA)

LONG BEACH - Residents are invited to a moot Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal Saturday between noon and 4:30 p.m. at the Mark Twain Library, 1401 E. Anaheim St.

The Applied Social Research Institute of Cambodia, which was founded by medical sociologist Leakhena Nou, is playing host to the event. Her group helped collect survivor testimonies among Cambodian-American refugees that may be used in the tribunal.

Four surviving Khmer Rouge leaders - Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Ieng Thirith and Khieu Samphan - will be on trial. An estimated 2million Cambodians died during the Khmer Rouge reign between 1975 and 1979.


Attorneys representing survivors of the Killing Fields will be on hand. There will be presentations about the tribunal as well as a discussion about reparations aimed at understanding what the Cambodian community in the U.S. hopes to learn and gain from the trial.

Survivors are encouraged to bring mementos or photos and share their stories of survival. Community members can also ask questions and voice concerns about the upcoming trial with attorneys.

- Greg Mellen

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thai F16 speed is 2414 km per hour. From Thai air base to Hun Sen base only take 15 minutes of fly to bomb Hun Sen base.

Thai has 65 of F16 air craft + 12 modern Sewden aircrafts that even better than F16 + 1100 long range self propeller 155mm Howitzer + over 1000 combat tanks + over 400 helicopters + more than 10 millions bomb shells + more......

Hun Sen curruption regime will be soon vanish from Cambodia.

Hun Sen regime is so currupted that is why Cambodia Royal Army has no weapons or shells fight back Thai

It is all about Hun Sen so currupted regime to kill themself

Anonymous said...

The country is at war with Thai.
THese two ladies are sick. They are going to dy

Anonymous said...

B-52 of US army killed al least 500000 ( haft millions khmer life )innocent Cambodian people at that time.

Ask your parents if you don't believe about B-52 bomb Cambodia at that time.

One B-52 airplane can carry 32 000kgs of bomb, drop more than 15 000 tons of conventional bombs on Cambodia from 1965–73.

ASK your parents for more detail about B-52

Khmer Long Beach

Anonymous said...

who is that young lady ?

She looks sick, too

Anonymous said...

Abhisit, Thai army, Yelloe shirt are evil. Ther are going to hell
Down Abhisit, thai army and yellow shirt

Long Beach

Anonymous said...

These two ladies have brain damage. They are realy sick.

Cambodian/American

Anonymous said...

12:51 PM

Sound like you are jealous of them!

Don't worry, you reap what you sow, soon you will have one too.