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The Global Citizen: Khmer Rouge
On Monday, July 26th, a joint UN-Cambodian war crimes court convicted the first of several key players of the Khmer Rouge of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
More than three decades after Pol Pot and the leaders of the Khmer Rouge tried to turn Cambodia into a classless society based on agricultural communism, Kaing Guek Eav, commander of the movement's main torture and execution center, was sentenced to a mere 35 years in prison, for which he will only serve 19.
So there's good news and bad news about the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia's efforts to bring surviving members of the Khmer Rouge to justice for the heinous crimes they committed from 1975-1979.
AFP reports:
PAILIN, Cambodia (AFP) - The murderous Khmer Rouge regime's most senior surviving leader was arrested Wednesday, plucked from his home in the Cambodian jungle to face justice at the country's long-delayed genocide trials.
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