Friday, September 3, 2010
Republican American
"The greatest gift our country can give to the Cambodian people is peace, not guns. And the best way to accomplish that goal is by ending military aid now." — Rep. Christopher J. Dodd, D-2nd District, March 12, 1975For his role in the genocide of 2 million of his countrymen after U.S. military aid to his Southeast Asian nation ended in 1975, Kaing Guek Eav, aka Duch, has become the first Khmer Rouge figure to be convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity by a U.N.-backed tribunal.
From 1976 to 1979, Duch was commandant of S-21, one of the most notorious prisons and interrogation centers in communist dictator Pol Pot's network of torture/death camps. On Duch's orders, 17,000 people, maybe more, were tortured to death for crimes they didn't commit. Their bodies were buried in the mass graves in what came famous as the Cambodian Killing Fields. His camp had only 12 known survivors.
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