.jpg) |
| Top photo: Khieu Samphan, Nguyen Huu Tho and Ieng Sary |
Ieng Sary, a co-founder of Cambodia's former Khmer Rouge regime, died Thursday at age 87, amid a trial over his role in one of the worst genocides in the 20th century.
March 14, 2013
By CHUN HAN WONG
The Wall Street Journal
The former deputy prime minister and foreign minister died in the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital in Phnom Penh at 8:45 a.m. local time, said Lars Olsen, a spokesman for the U.N.-backed tribunal set up to try the Khmer Rouge's most senior leaders. Ieng Sary had been hospitalized since March 4, when he was admitted for "digestion problems," Mr. Olsen said, adding that the tribunal will issue a report on the cause of death on an unspecified date.
Ieng Sary, along with three other top Khmer Rouge members, was indicted in 2010 on a raft of charges that include crimes against humanity, genocide and war crimes.
Khmer Rouge, a radical communist insurgency that controlled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, came to power in the aftermath of the Vietnam War and sought to create an agricultural utopia under the leadership of the late Pol Pot. The regime is blamed for the deaths of 1.7 million people during its reign.
The group forced residents of Cambodian cities to relocate to rural collectives, but many of the farms failed spectacularly, making it difficult for residents to survive. About a fifth of the country's population at the time died of starvation, illness or were killed.
After their defeat by Vietnam-backed forces in 1979, the Khmer Rouge retreated into the jungle where it fought a guerrilla war before its dissolution in the 1990s. Ieng Sary defected in 1996 and was arrested in 2007.
It isn't immediately clear if Ieng Sary's death would affect the U.N.-backed trial against the two remaining accused: Nuon Chea, a former acting prime minister who is considered one of the Khmer Rouge's main ideologues; and Khieu Samphan, a former head of state. Ieng Thirith, Ieng Sary's wife and a former government minister, was released in September after the tribunal found her unfit to stand trial due to severe dementia.
4 comments:
America bombed Cambodia for 10 years from 1960-1970s, helping the Vietnamese to invade Cambodia and Laos.
Why was there no American being prosecuted for the genocide occured under the US bombings or the Vietnamese Invasion on the neighboring countries?
US B 52 Bombed Cambodia as 12:56 PM says since 1960s and more heavier in 1973 for 200 days and 200 nights killed nearly million Cambodian and caused vast atrocity to Cambodian people this is very obvious a war crime agianst Cambodian people becaused they missed their target VietCong in Cambodia but may Khmer became their target instead.
In 1970,hanoi vietcong bring the war to cambodia ,they killed many khmer people (civil,professors,students,polices,soldiers)and hanoi vietcong destroyed many khmer constructions : houses ,school , bridge like they put the mine to destroy chruy chanvar bridge ( ask chea sok ,he know which battallon of vietcong destroy chroy changvar bridge ,now chea sok is a high rank in CPP),after April 17 1975 many vietcong named khmer still stay behind pol pot eang sary and continue to kill khmer people ( eang sary is a student of hochiminh he follow the plan of hanoi to kill and destroy khmer culture ,khmer soul),at the end of 1975 hanoi prime minister came to phnom penh to see pol pot eang sary to congratulate pol pot eang sary ,hanoi prime minister said the both did well ,they can evacuate khmer people from city to the field ,it's easy to kill ,after 1979 hanoi vietcong still stay behind hun sen to continue to kill khmer people by many way ,until now hanoi vietcong still stay behind CPP ( it has 50% of vietcong work in government of CPP like chuon prasit ,yim chhay ly ,hoa nam hong ....)they continue to kill and destroy khmer country day to day until hanoi swallow khmer country complete .So we have to bring hanoi vietcong to the international court with khmer rouge leaders too,why let them sit outside of the law and laugh behind khmer victim.All khmer people have to unite together to save our khmer country.
ពួកមេខ្មែរក្រហមដឹកនាំពលរដ្ឋទៅរកឋាននរក។
Post a Comment