PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- Cambodia's Supreme Court says it will decide whether an accused leader of the Khmer Rouge genocide, a former sister-in-law of Pol Pot, can walk free.
Ieng Thirith, 79, was charged by a U.N.-backed Phnom Penh tribunal with genocide, homicide, crimes against humanity and other crimes the indictment alleges she committed in her role in the "planning, direction, coordination and ordering of widespread purges," The New York Times reported.
As minister for social affairs under the Pol Pot Maoist regime Thirith is alleged to have been the most powerful woman in the Khmer Rouge government, at whose hands 1.7 million people died from 1975 to 1979 through either execution, torture, forced labor, starvation or disease.
Thirith and other Khmer Rouge leaders' intent in abolishing schools, religion and currency was to create an agrarian utopia, the Times said.
Thirith was arrested in November 2007 at her Phnom Penh villa where she lived with her husband, Ieng Sary, 86, also a former Khmer Rouge foreign minister who is standing trial for his alleged crimes.
The court found Thirith unfit to stand trial Nov. 17 due to dementia but international and Cambodian judges couldn't agree how her mental state could, would or should affect her detention at the tribunal's detention center where she was being held, The Phnom Penh Post reported Monday.
The Supreme Court Chamber, the Khmer Rouge tribunal's highest appeal body, had 15 days to appeal for Thirith's release.
"The 15 days is due to elapse this week," a legal affairs spokesman for the tribunal, Lars Olsen, said, indicating the decision could come Monday or Tuesday. "But if there are exceptional circumstances, the Supreme Court Chamber can take longer to issue a decision."
If Thirith is released, it will be seen as a setback for the tribunal which, the Times said, has been tainted by accusations of Cambodian political interference and corruption along with careless oversight by the United Nations.
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Khmer Rouge and Khmer Viet Minh,
Half of Khmer Rouge between 1975-1979 were former Khmer Viet Minh who went to Hanoi after Geneva conference and were trained in Hanoi and left Hanoi for Cambodia after 1970s and joined the Khmer Rouge fihters and became KR leaders between 1975-1979 as follow:
1. Heng Samrin.
2. Chea Sim.
3. So Phim.
4. Keo Meas.
5. Rhos Nhim.
6. Nisaran and many more.
Above only some of fromer Khmer Viet Minh who worked alongside with Pol Pot between 1975-1979
So Phim secretary in Eastern zone and his in law Rhos Nhim in Batambang and Pursat between 1975-1979.
why she wants to walk free? she and her stupid KR regime had too much blood on their hands, you know!
DUMB, VIETCONGS/VIETNAMS, YOUR SMART IN THE BAD WAYS BY KILLING KHMERS PEOPLE AND TAKE OVER THEIR LANDS AND COUNTY ETC. EVEN IN AMERICA, WHEN YOU (DUMB VIETCONGS), DO SOMETHING WRONGS.
1. YOU TELLING AMERICANS PEOPLE, YOU ARE KHMER/CAMBODIAN.
2 WHEN YOU (DUMB VIETCONGS) DO SOMETHING GOOD, YOU TELLING AMERICANS
PEOPLE, YOU ARE VIETNAMESE OR CHINESE.
DON'T LOOKS DOWN ON KHMERS PEOPLE AS YOU ARE SO DUMB TOO.
AND THE WORLD IS HAPPENING EVERYWHERE NOW, MAYBE YOUR (DUMB EVILS VIETCONGS) GO TO HELL SOON.
Nguyen Thach Son
Nguyen Thach Son?
Who was Nguyen Thack Son.
Nguyen Thack Son was top military leader of Yuon Viet Minh and Khmer Viet Minh who fought against French colony in Cambodia between 1946-1954.
But to the Khmer public they only knew the leader of of Khmer Viet Minh or Khmer Issarak are:
1. Son Ngoc Minh or Achar Mean.
2. Tou Samouth.
3. Sieu Heng.
4. And other .
Above were Khmer Viet Minh leaders only in name the real one was Nguyen Thack Son who knew Camoboda hight and low as the real top Khmer Viet Minh and yuon Viet Minh in Cambodia, under the old name of CPP, Khmer People's Revolutionary Party .
So what Nuon Chea says is 1000% correct in term of Khmer real history.
we are starting to learn more and more about the truth of the real khmer rouge organization. let god shed lights on the truth in cambodia to the world. we all need to learn and understand from this, really! may god help cambodia into a better future for all to enjoy i.e. justice, peace, prosperity, growth, etc.
Nguyen Thach Son.
Nguyen Thach Son was the real leader of CPP between 1946-1954, Son Ngoc Minh or Achar Mean only the leader of CPP ( Khmer People's Revolutianry Party in 1951 in name only.
Thank you Om Nuon Chea for bringing this,Nguyen Thack Son name for Khmer next generation.
Note: Nguyen Thach knew Cambodia hight and low as a top yuon Viet Minh and Khmer Viet Minh fighter between 1946-1954 in Cambodia
The Communist Party of Kampuchea.
( I once have posted this on KI-Media last month ).
KhmerRouge or Communist Party of Kampuchea was a combination of Khmer Viet Minh and and a group of Paris students group created in 1960 by 3 figures to be indepedent off yuon Communist party of Ho Chi Minh but tried to remain to be friend with Ho Chi Minh ( The Indochinese Communist Party ) as follow:
1. Tou Samouth.
2. Nuon Chea.
3. Pol Pot.
1. Tou Samouth , Kea Meas , So Phim , Rhos Nhim played very important role in joining former Khmer Viet Minh fighters who did not go to Hanoi into the Communist Party of Kampuchea.
2. Nuon Chea played very important role in joining other Khmer Issarak fighters like Ke Pok, Ta Mok into the Communist Party of Kamuchea.
3. Pol Pot , from the beginning in 1960, had only a hanfull solders but the number of Pol Pot solders increased rapidly after 1970s.
Between 1975-1979 majority of that Khmer Viet Minh became Khmer Rouge villages chiefs, communes chiefs, districts chiefs and secretaries zones.
1. So Phim in Eastern zone and Rhos Nhim in Battambang and Pursat.
Neither KR nor the illegal youn/vietnamese/vietcong should walk away free from justice committed in Khmer genocide.
Neither KR nor the illegal youn/vietnamese/vietcong should walk away free from their evil acts committed in Khmer genocide/Holocaust. Justice must prevail!
KRT is just a comical show!!!
The past is history...The winner always makes and rewrites history...
We, Viet, have been doing just that...and there is nothing you dumb Khmer can do about it! What was Khmer's is now Viet's...and it remains that way for all of you dumb khmer's life time
Let me tell you something else:
GOD already knows, dumb Khmer is helpless. We, Viet, are already controlling Viet-Cambodia from top to bottom, from the Senate to the farm land...
Hun Sen will be irrelevant in the very near future and there will be more and brighter Viet-Khmer/Khmer-Viet smarter ones to lead Viet-Cambodia...
Viet is everywhere in Viet-Cambodia from farmer to technician, from nurse to doctor, from firefighter to engineer, from rubber plantation owner/worker to Hun Sen's political advisor and bodyguards including Angkor Wat's owner...You all name it and Viet is there...Khmer doesn't do squat besides getting addicted to Viet's ass in Viet-Cambodia, even foreigners are enjoying it nicely and quietly too...
Once again, whether or not all you dumb Khmer surrender yourselves to Viet, Khmer is now deep-rooted Viet, and irreversibly so already.
Hun Sen is just a dumb Viet-Khmer that can be disposed of at anytime at just a blink of an eye!
Challenge me if all of you dumb Khmer can. We have millions of us (legally the majority thanks to that dumb Hun Sen) that will vote for Viet-Khmer candidate legally and democratically forever, even the outside world would support and agree and as a matter of factly, there is not much the outside world can do about it...
How Sam Raingsy and/or any of your worthless so-called dumb heroe(s) including the stupid dumb king Sihanouk of yours that just wants to reign and rule plan to win Cambodia back? The Federation of Indochina under Viet's protectorate is here to stay on this planet earth for real. How do all of you dumb Khmer think or plan to de-vietnamize it???
KRT is just a show to entertain the world. We, Viet, are that good and smart.
Can Khmer put up the second Killing fields to get rid of millions of legal Viet-Khmer citizen now like we, Viet, did?
Okay you dumb Khmer - put it up or shut up while we, Viet, are domesticating you for the bright future of the Federation of Indochina!
It's all too late for you dumb Khmer already!!!
Ms. Soap
P.s Think about how all of our Viet-Khmer/Khmer-Viet offsprings/Half-breeds would look beautifully and be smart like in our Federation of Indochina???
តើខ្មែរអាចសំឡាប់ប្រជាជន យួន ខ្មែរ រាប់លាន
អ្នកបានដូចដែល វៀត ធ្វើនោះទេ?
ស្ដាប់ឮទេខ្មែរ ល្ងង់ខ្លៅ???
Once again, can Khmer put up the second Killing Field to get rid of millions of legal Viet-Khmer citizen now like we, Viet, did?
Eest-ce que vous m'entendez les ignorants Khmers?
Juste Pour me répéter:
Peut Khmer créer un deuxième «Killing Field» pour se débarasser des millions de Viet-Khmer qui sont maintenant les habitants légaux du Viet-Cambodge comme nous, les Viets, avions fait?
KI-Media is yesterday news and ought to shut down for good or better yet, come kiss our Viet's ass now!
Our Viet's ass (80 millions) is resource #1. We defeated the French and the Americans just with our ass. We have suicidal commandoes to win the war. What do you dumb Khmer have? We, Viet, can let loose another million of our new fresh ass freely into Viet-Khmer shortly...as per Hun Sen's agreement just to let him rule...
What can all of you dumb Khmer do to stop it?
Qu'est-ce-que vous allez faire, les ignorants Khmers?
តើខ្មែរល្ងង់ខ្លៅឯងធ្វើអីកើតទៅ ក្រៅពីធ្វើខ្ញុំយួន!
why they evil people like vietcong/youn and siem and some other wanted to cambodia to have a small population and be a small country? why? i say cambodia must have bigger population and bigger economy for competition purpose with neighboring countries like siem and youn bastards, ok! stop being biased with cambodia and khmer people, ok! don't be stupid forever, ok!
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