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The Latest: Last Khmer Rouge leaders get 2nd life sentencePHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The Latest on the tribunal judging Khmer Rouge responsibility (all times local): 11:40 a.m. The tribunal that found two former Khmer Rouge leaders guilty of genocide has sentenced them to life in prison. The elderly Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan are the last surviving senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge and are already serving life sentences for the regime's forced transfers and disappearances of masses of people during group's brutal rule of Cambodia in the late 1970s. The tribunal convicted Khieu Samphan under the joint criminal enterprise rule of the genocide law. It found Nuon Chea guilty of genocide based on the principle of command responsibility. The separate verdicts involve killings of the Cham and Vietnamese ethnic groups committed as the radical group brutally ruled Cambodia and starved, overworked and executed its own perceived enemies. Thank you, AP. This is a story that while largely ignored has significant historical meaning to those who were ever engaged in SE Asia. I visited the Killing Fields in Cambodia a few years back. Human bones sticking out of the ground almost everywhere. The tree they used to beat the children to death to save on bullets. Utterly depressing place. And to happen as recently as the ‘70’s? Unbelievable. sorry, a life sentence here isn't going to be very punitive. better late than never?
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The Latest: Last Khmer Rouge leaders get 2nd life sentencePHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The Latest on the tribunal judging Khmer Rouge responsibility (all times local): 11:40 a.m. The tribunal that found two former Khmer Rouge leaders guilty of genocide has sentenced them to life in prison. The elderly Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan are the last surviving senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge and are already serving life sentences for the regime's forced transfers and disappearances of masses of people during group's brutal rule of Cambodia in the late 1970s. The tribunal convicted Khieu Samphan under the joint criminal enterprise rule of the genocide law. It found Nuon Chea guilty of genocide based on the principle of command responsibility. The separate verdicts involve killings of the Cham and Vietnamese ethnic groups committed as the radical group brutally ruled Cambodia and starved, overworked and executed its own perceived enemies. Thanks to the criminal negligence of the criminal 93rd Dem Congress - a great study of this comes from the book “American Amnesia” by Herschensohn: deserved a Pulitzer: must read to correct a false media and academia narrative. A life sentence is too good for those who followed Pol Pot! Execute them. The moral vapidity it takes to sentence to prison persons convicted of genocide is practically unbearable.
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