Daniel Schearf, VOA | Phnom Penh
“We didn’t expect much from the Cambodian officials but we expected a lot more from the United Nations.”
The United Nations-backed trial of former senior Khmer Rouge leaders in Cambodia aims to bring some degree of justice after decades of impunity for their bloody revolution. For the victims, the trial has re-opened painful wounds but also brings hope for healing.
Kup Aishah, a minority Cham Muslim, turns the pages of a large-print copy of the Koran.
Wearing a traditional navy blue headscarf she fondly recalls how she has had this Koran since she was 12 year old.
During Cambodia’s bloody Khmer Rouge era in the 1970s, when religion was outlawed, she wrapped it in plastic, dug a hole in her yard and hid it.
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