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POPSKhmer Rouge prison chief goes on trial in Cambodia " "It all seems so fresh," said Norng Champhal, who was a starving little boy when invading Vietnamese forces entered the prison. He had been separated from his mother after one night in the prison and never saw her again. Don't Miss * Blog: Khmer Rouge trial to revisit dark history * Survivor recalls horrors of Cambodia genocide * Cambodian art: Past to present * In depth: Scream Bloody Murder "It's hard to control my feelings when I see this," he said, as he watched footage of the prison taken 30 years ago. "I wonder whether my parents were tortured like these people," he said."
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POPSFirst Khmer Rouge trial begins in Cambodia A born-again Christian, is said to have co-operated with investigating judges - and is expected to reveal important information about the decisions made by the organisation's leadership. His information could help in the trials set for later this year of four other defendants, analysts say. They include the surviving top leaders Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary and Khieu Samphan, who are all elderly and in poor health. All four have denied any knowledge of the atrocities that took place under their rule. If preparations for their trials get bogged down, as seems likely, Duch may be the only man ever held to account for the Khmer Rouge atrocities, our correspondent adds.
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POPSKhmer Rouge's Comrade Duch on trial for deaths of 16,000 people A warning in advance - very disturbing photos of the victims clipped. On 17 April 1975, after years of fighting, Khmer Rouge guerrillas took Phnom Penh. It was the start of nearly four years of horror for Cambodia. WHO WERE THE KHMER ROUGE? -Maoist regime that ruled Cambodia from 1975-1979 -Founded and led by Pol Pot, who died in 1998 -Abolished religion, schools and currency in a bid to create agrarian utopia -Up to two million people thought to have died from starvation, overwork or execution
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POPS Cambodian 'Killing Fields' journalist dies Schanberg described Dith's ordeal and salvation in a 1980 magazine article titled "The Death and Life of Dith Pran". Schanberg's reporting from Phnom Penh had earned him a Pulitzer Prize in 1976. Later a book, the magazine article became the basis for The Killing Fields, the highly successful 1984 British film starring Sam Waterston as the Times correspondent and Haing S. Ngor, another Cambodian escapee from the Khmer Rouge, as Dith Pran. The film won three Oscars, including the best supporting actor award to Ngor. Ngor, a physician, was shot to death in 1996 during a robbery outside his Los Angeles home
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POPSCourt nabs another Pol Pot henchman This horrible regime killed so many. Dick'n'George have been responsible for the deaths of over a million Iraqis and 4000 American troops. Should they not be facing charges? at least impeachment.
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POPSWaterboarding Demo in Congress !? To Prove not Torture!? "In the war crimes tribunals that followed Japan's defeat in World War II, the issue of waterboarding was sometimes raised. In 1947, the U.S. charged a Japanese officer, Yukio Asano, with war crimes for waterboarding a U.S. civilian. Asano was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor. "'All of these trials elicited compelling descriptions of water torture from its victims, and resulted in severe punishment for its perpetrators,' writes Evan Wallach in the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law." Begs the question. How could he be charged in WW2 with the WAR CRIME of waterboarding? The recipient was a civilian seemed to be the point? Well so are the detainees in Guantanamo Bay. If there were POWs then it would NOT be a WAR CRIME but as Bush says they are not POWs then it is a WAR CRIME.
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POPSWaterboarding used by other groups as torture taint USA So -- the Spanish Inquisition, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, the WWII Japanees soldiers, all used waterboarding torture and now the U.S. Military under orders of George W. Bush and Dick Chaney -- good company we in the U.S. are keeping aren't we.
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POPSPhotos from a Khmer torture house "Mr. Nhem En’s career in the Khmer Rouge began in 1970 at age 9 when he was recruited as a village boy to be a drummer in a touring revolutionary band. When he was 16, he said, he was sent to China for a seven-month course in photography." "Hundreds of them hang in rows on the walls of Tuol Sleng, which is now a museum, their fixed stares tempting a visitor to search for meaning here on the cusp of death. In fact, they are staring at Mr. Nhem En. The job was a daily grind, he said: up at 6:30 a.m., a quick communal meal of bread or rice and something sweet, and at his post by 7 a.m. to wait for prisoners to arrive. His telephone would ring to announce them: sometimes one, sometimes a group, sometimes truckloads of them, he said. "
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POPSThe Left Shudders This is how *some* Americans view our years in Vietnam and what followed. History is, indeed, repeating itself to our peril and those who trust us. Read the entire letter from the Prime Minister; it's heartbreaking.
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POPSFirst Khmer Rouge Suspect Quizzed S 21, is Tuol Seng, which means Hill of the Poisonous Trees, an unfortunate joke by that hater of Cambodians, Pol Pot. Choeng Ek Killing Field is the most infamous, although there is one at a village outside of Siem Reap, where there is a pit that once contained the victims of Pol Pot's genocide. I went to both places in 2006 and I have been changed. Nothing about living, about being a human being is the same for me. I see what is possible, the cruelty of humans beings to one another that is possible anywhere. I also see the love and kindness in present day Cambodians, the friends I made and the hopes we shared
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