Source: AAP
A top Khmer Rouge leader has denied that the brutal 1970s regime persecuted Buddhists and outlawed religion, to the outrage of monks following his trial at Cambodia's UN-backed court.
"Brother Number Two" Nuon Chea, 85, said on Thursday the hardline communist movement "did not have any measure to ban Buddhism" as he continued testifying in his landmark atrocities trial alongside two other senior Khmer Rouge leaders.
Nuon Chea, ex-foreign minister Ieng Sary and former head of state Khieu Samphan all deny charges including genocide and war crimes for the deaths of up to two million people during the regime's 1975-79 reign of terror.
They are also accused of systematically targeting Buddhists, disrobing monks under threat of execution and destroying places of worship.
But Nuon Chea gave judges - and the hundreds of Cambodians watching from the public gallery - a very different version of events.
"The question is did we really reject the monks? Of course not," he said.
"Some people who accuse Democratic Kampuchea (the Khmer Rouge regime) of destroying religion are wrong. They don't understand the real meaning of religion."
Like Buddha himself, he said, people did not need pagodas to practice their faith because religious principles such as compassion and kindness "are in the hearts of Buddhist followers".
His words stunned the orange-clad clergymen attending the day's session.
"I am quite angry with what he says," said Phnom Penh-based monk Prum Mony, 28, whose grandfather died under the regime.
"If he respects monks, why did they destroy pagodas and defrock monks? He is insulting monks."
Fellow monk Lai Sokchea, also 28, said Nuon Chea's revision of history was "a sin" because "his words were different from his actions".
Led by "Brother Number One" Pol Pot, who died in 1998, the Khmer Rouge emptied cities, abolished money and religion and wiped out nearly a quarter of the population through starvation, overwork or execution in a bid to create an agrarian utopia.
Prosecutors last month said witnesses recalled Khmer Rouge leaders labelling monks - who are revered in Cambodian society - "blood-sucking parasitic worms".
The tribunal will resume hearing evidence next month.
9 comments:
AH CHOY MARAY NOUN CHEA , YOU MOTHERFUCKER! YOU SAID WE NEED NO MONK TO BERELIGIOUS!!!!! LIKE YOUR FUCKING HOUR MOTHER DON'T NEED YOUR FUCKING FATHER TO BROUGHT YOUR MOTHERFUCKER TO RUINE THE COUNTRY!!!!
YOU MOTHERFUCKER DHOULD BE HANG TO DRY NOT LET DIE!!!!
noun chea is right,yuons/khmer rouge didn't ban Buddhism, but of course he meant communist Buddhism. communist Buddhists were really actives working for yuons bringing genocide against Khmer like noun chea, achar sok alias son ngok minh, tou samoth, tep vong and other bunch Vietminh monks. Yuons/khmer rouge killed only Khmer monks and other Khmer who working against yuons and communism
this is how yuons killed Khmer intellectual and Khmer monks even before yuons had found the Khmer rouge/Kvietminh movement
http://amekhmer.free.fr/khcrucial-event/sihanouk-crime/1sihanuyuon_targetintellect.htm
http://amekhmer.free.fr/khcrucial-event/sihanouk-crime/1sihanuyuon_chantrea.htm
the question for yuons is not you are white mouse or black mouse but you work for yuons or not. If you refuse yuon order, culture or domination you will die immediatly if not you will die later. So you will die sooner or later whether you work for yuons or not. The only solution is to get rid of this yuon culture of animosity and human butcher
3:00AM YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND BLACK OR WHITE KHMER ROUGE REGIME, NOUN CHEA SO FAR HE IS RIGHT. KHMER, AH HUN SEN'S CPP = KILLING FIELD = VIETCONG = DICTATOR = MASS MERDER. KHMER HISTORY
KI-Media, don't suppress freedom of speech: deleting my comments won't help you from getting to be the Viet's slave!
Ms. Soap
ME OR AH SOAP, JUST GET LOST, YOU STUPID, DUMB, DOG EATER, EVIL, DEVIL, KHMERS KILLER.
WE KHMERS,WE WILL NOT BE YOUR DUMB STUPID SLAVE COMMUNIST VIETS.
YOUR DUMB EVIL,DEVIL COMMUNIST VIETS, WILL BE IN HELL SOON!
HELL IS WAITING FOR YOUR EVIL COMMUNIST VIETS.
4:25 if you stupid enought to thing he right that is your right!
But Can the Motherfucker ah noun Chea know what happen to Cambodia future if there was no scholl in the country for future generation!!?
Are motherfucker so stupid or they thry to destroy the nation and race??
Khmer Viet Minh.
Khmer Viet Minh who working side by side with Pol Pot, Noun Chea between 1975-1979 are:
1. Heng Samrin.
2. Chea Sim .
3. Keo Meas.
4. So Phim.
5. Ros Nhim .
6. Nai Saran.
7. And many more.
Note: So Phim secretary of Eastern zone and Ros Nhim in Battambang and Pursat .
So Phim and Ros Nhim were in law in 1976.
So Phim had 2 positions between 1975-1978.
1. Secretary of Eastern zone.
2. Member of Central committee of the Communist Party of Kampuchea or CPK or better know as Angkar between 195-1978.
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