A Khmer Rouge leader on trial for crimes against humanity on Wednesday rejected claims from the regime's chief jailer as "untruthful", denying he was ever in charge of a torture prison.
Thursday 19 April 2012
Agence France-Presse
"Brother Number Two" Nuon Chea urged Cambodia's UN-backed court to ignore testimony by Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, who accused him of ordering the "smashing" of hundreds of inmates at the S-21 detention centre in the late 1970s.
"I would like to inform the Cambodian people that I have never at any time been responsible for the operation of S-21," said the former deputy leader of the brutal regime, which oversaw the deaths of up to two million people.
"What Duch has accused me of has been untruthful and very unjust towards me... I have never been Duch's superior," Nuon Chea read out from a prepared statement, challenging his accuser to provide the documents to prove otherwise.
The 85-year-old, as usual dressed in all black, then refused to answer any questions, to the annoyance of the prosecutors, who urged judges to give "no weight to his exculpatory assertions".
Nuon Chea and his co-defendants -- ex-foreign minister Ieng Sary and one-time head of state Khieu Samphan -- deny charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
Former maths teacher Duch, 69, was sentenced to life in jail on appeal in February for overseeing the killings of some 15,000 people at the notorious prison.
Nuon Chea and Duch, who are being held at the same detention centre, are on bad terms, with the former calling Duch "rotten wood" during a recent hearing.
Duch told the court earlier this month that Nuon Chea has long blamed him for failing to destroy evidence at S-21 before the Vietnamese invaded and ousted the Khmer Rouge.
Led by "Brother Number One" Pol Pot, who died in 1998, the Khmer Rouge wiped out nearly a quarter of Cambodia's population between 1975 and 1979 through torture, starvation, overwork or execution in a bid to forge a communist "utopia".
5 comments:
i never saw any regime so stupid and ignorant like that of the KR in my life. cambodia do not want or need that stupid, ignorant, primitive KR regime again, you know.
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Get out of here. You don't know anything. Just go suck Hun Sen's penis and lick your Yuon's stinky asses and enjoy moaning and screaming in front of the row of CPP clans, cronies, Hun Sen's family members, daughters, sons and CPP family ties. Many of dumb Cambodians like you are still thinking stupid and not going anywhere. Wake up, stop being so opinionated and manipulated by your bad CPP regime coming from trashy and junky Communist Vietnamese systems. Cambodian folks like you are still dumb. Stop talking like Yuon Prostitutes or whores.
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All Khmers,
Hanoi had given birth to KHMER VIET MINH during the ISSARAK era, and used their hands to kill Khmer people for Hanoi's purpose.
So Phim, and Ros Nhim (Ta Kao) were both ex-Khmer Viet Minh. They had killed many many Lon Nol soldiers, teachers, students, city people, doctors, civil servants,etc... by Hanoi's dictation.
Hanoi's leaders were the REAL CULPRITS AND CRIMINALS in creating Khmer Killing Fields.
And Sihanouk whose intention was to REVENGE his own subjects of stripping him from POWER is the main leader to be responsible for this Khmer people killing.
He should be tried or testified by ECCC judges to find the the REAL JUSTICE for Khmer victims.
Duch is working for CPP & Hanoi
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