Cambodian Genocide on Trial
July 27th, 2009 Posted in Human Rights, Terrorism, Cambodia, TotalitarianismPaul Chesser has been blogging on the ongoing trial of the warden of one of the Khmer Rouge’s more notorious prisons. He writes:
I’ve tried to post updates the last several weeks about the trial of Kaing Guek Eav, or Comrade Duch, as it has provided a rare open window into the brutality and evil conducted by despotic regimes like that of Cambodia’s Pol Pot. Even though outlets like AP and Reuters (and the New York Times, a little) have covered the hearings that detail the acts of the former S-21 jailer, I have seen none of their dispatches carried by any other U.S. media Web sites or publications. I guess genocide and a Nuremburg-type trial about crimes committed in Southeast Asia thirty years ago is too distant a subject to be newsworthy.
It is a fascinating and horrifying tale. Several years ago I visited Tuol Sleng prison, now a museum, and the so-called Killing Fields, where many of those murdered were buried. They are a horrible testament to man’s inhumanity to man.
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