Former Khmer Rouge Leaders On Trial For Genocide.

[GennGreymane]

Khieu Samphan, the former head of state, and Nuon Chea, Pol Pot's deputy, are already on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The second trial includes a charge of genocide related to killings of Vietnamese and Cham Muslim minorities.

The cases are being tried separately to accelerate proceedings, because the defendants are elderly.

A verdict in the first case, meanwhile, is expected on 7 August. Prosecutors are seeking life sentences for the two former leaders.

The Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia for four years, from 1975 to 1979. Up to two million people are thought to have died of starvation, overwork or by execution under the brutal Maoist regime.

(Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-28558098)

It has taken many decades, but we may finally have some justice.

[Nihilan]

How is the life sentence of an already elderly man considered justice when compared to two million murders? There is literally no punishment in existence that will serve as justice for a crime like that. You could imprison every member of his family for generations and not come close to balancing the scales.

[Deletedaccount1]

kids are still dying and losing limbs everyday there because those stupid fucks randomly put down like 5 million mines all over the countryside.

[Hyve]

Honestly, even if they're sentenced for the rest of their lives, they've already gotten away with it.

What they did was disgusting, but are we seriously going to pretend that putting them in a jail cell for the next few years they have left is any form of justice? I'm not suggesting we kill them, but I find it silly how people think that immediately sentencing them is justice. It's not.

Their actions still greatly impact those in the region, and it's going to be a lot longer until things get sorted.

[Forfax]

How is the life sentence of an already elderly man considered justice when compared to two million murders? There is literally no punishment in existence that will serve as justice for a crime like that. You could imprison every member of his family for generations and not come close to balancing the scales.

I hope your sarcastic, if not, you have a strange sense of justice.
Why not put in prison family of every murderer as-well?

[Reds4Life]

When totaling the mass murder of Marxists worldwide, people often forget the Khmer Rouge.

[GennGreymane]

I would say even though it is long overdue it will help bring in some closure and attention to what had happened.

[-aiko-]

I hope your sarcastic, if not, you have a strange sense of justice.
Why not put in prison family of every murderer as-well?

He's not saying we should put families in prison (like North Korea). He's just illustrating how big the crimes are and how little there is we can do for true justice against them. Putting them in jail is hardly satisfying.

[Masark]

When totaling the mass murder of Marxists worldwide, people often forget the Khmer Rouge.

Please quote where exactly Karl Marx advocated anything those objects did.

[GennGreymane]

Please quote where exactly Karl Marx advocated anything those objects did.

when he said the word....communism

[madmanx]

kids are still dying and losing limbs everyday there because those stupid fucks randomly put down like 5 million mines all over the countryside.

Not to defend the Khmer Rouge but...they were far from the only ones to do that?

I think they did plenty of horrible things all by themselves for several life sentences.

[Deletedaccount1]

Not to defend the Khmer Rouge but...they were far from the only ones to do that?

I think they did plenty of horrible things all by themselves for several life sentences.

at least the Taliban and other insurgent forces try to put IEDs in strategic areas but the Khmer Rouge and the other factions fighting during the Cambodian civil war purposefully put down as a many as possible for maximum civilian causalities.