Khmer Rouge S-21 Chief Gets 19 Years For Killing Fields
 

Khmer Rouge chief jailed over 14,000 deaths - Jul 2010
Former head of prison gets 19-year jail term; sentence branded 'a joke'

http://msnbcmedia4.msn.com/j/MSNBC/C...a.grid-4x2.jpg
[LINKHOTTED]
Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, also known as "Duch," showed no emotion as the verdict was read.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia ? A U.N.-backed tribunal sentenced a senior Khmer Rouge commander to 35 years in prison on Monday in its first verdict on the "Killing Fields" revolution blamed for 1.7 million deaths in Cambodia three decades ago. But 67-year-old Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, will only serve 19 years after the court subtracted 16 years for time already served ? short of the maximum 40 years sought by the prosecution and the life behind bars many Cambodians demanded.

The former schoolteacher admitted during the eight-month trial to overseeing the torture and the killing of more than 14,000 people but said he was only following orders. "We hoped this tribunal would strike hard at impunity but if you can kill 14,000 people and serve only 19 years ? 11 hours per life taken ? what is that? It's a joke," said Theary Seng, a Cambodian who is now a U.S.-national and lost his father at the Tuol Sleng prison run by Duch. "My gut feeling is this has made the situation far worse for Cambodia," he said.

Duch betrayed no emotion as the verdict was read. Some Cambodians wept loudly in the courtroom. He was found guilty of murder, torture, rape, inhumane acts, crimes against humanity and other charges for running Tuol Sleng, a converted school also known as S-21.

LINK


:2 cents: What a fucking joke. This asshole should be executed on the spot. Don't know how many of you have seen "S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine", but it's a good documentary about S-21, albeit entirely in Cambodian w/subtitles.

so they picked one guy out... how about the entire govt at the time.. they all knew what was going on...



.

Well you'll work harder
With a gun in your back
For a bowl of rice a day
Slave for soldiers
Till you starve
Then your head is skewered on a stake

Now you can go where people are one
Now you can go where they get things done
What you need, my son:.

Is a holiday in Cambodia
Where people dress in black
A holiday in Cambodia
Where you'll kiss ass or crack

Pol Pot

courtesy Dead Kennedys natch!

I visited this "school" last month during my trip in Cambodia. Its very weird walking around there knowing what happenend and all.

The old classrooms were used as torture rooms and still are the same way as they found them. In every room there is a photo on the wall with what they found in that specific room when they came to rescue. Prisoners chained to their beds death and in a puddle of blood.

Over 2 million people killed in a little over 3 years time. crazy shit :2 cents:

That's a little less than one half day in prison for each of the 140,000 people he killed. :2 cents:

Indeed, those fuckers were pure evil. I had no idea you actually went there, that's amazing! I bet it was freaky. :(

Freaky as fuck.

Walking through the building and all rooms really give you the creeps.

Let me upload some pics I took.

This working?

http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/2613/dsc0415h.jpg

Yeah, it's working.
Nice rules they had. Jeez. :helpme

BTW I took 'm all in B&W on purpose, thought that would be appropriate.

http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/7448/dsc0418i.jpg

http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/2711/dsc0421.jpg

http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/2659/dsc0423wr.jpg

I've never seen death as a punishment especially for an old man.

^the mugshots photo makes you think about it the most.

I really want to check this movie out. I think it may be playing now...

That guy is probably the most evil man to walk the Earth since Josef Mengele. There simply is no suitable punishment for him. Maybe being eaten alive or something would be fitting.

He is no criminal, there were lots of counterrevolutionaries to be dealt with...

LOL :1orglaugh

and Pol Pot was a visionary.

Nice pics Roald, thanks for sharing. :thumbsup

Ok it draws a line underneath everything for any surviving victims of the regime but I still don't see a firing squad or lethal injection (especially lethal injection seeing as it's just the equivalent of having a dog put down) as much of a punishment for someone who doesn't really have the chance of living a normal life again. Eaten alive sounds good if it hurts.

Only execution I can ever remember seeing was Nicolae Ceaucescu and his wife in 1989 which was shown on the TV news and really just seemed to me like an easy way out for them both.

You cannot curl my revolutionary entushiasm...

those are exactly the same rules i employ at home... :thumbsup




.

I always get a kick out of "crimes against humanity" type trials. Joseph Stalin killed over 20,000,000 of his own people. Mao killed perhaps as many as 30,000,000 of his own people. The arrival of the Europeans in North America killed perhaps as many as 80,000,000 people; albeit not intentionally until a bit later when the efforts began to wipe out the "Native Americans". Religious wars have killed over 300,000,000 people.

Has no one figured out that the most dangerous predator on the planet is Man?

No point in any of such trials anyway.

Not going to change and such trials have yet to serve as any sort of deterrent.

Crimes Against Humanity are defined by the victors and are based in Ex Post Facto laws.

Sally.