Legend
Legend
Not so much, they've been a lost cause for a few decades now. My kids have now to take on the mantle of polite civil disobedience.
DWP also graciously continue with the stipend every month.
I blame Lawrence, Sykes and Picot, but it was along time ago.
Absorbing particular material [regarding said subject matter] that easily justifies our own agendas and conditioning - and passing it off as standardized.
Too easy, ain't it Harry?
All a bit fucking pointless really, and I suspect most Cambodians feel the same way. Like this bloke.
They want the killers and torturers punished, and it isn't going to happen.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46233582Like many 60-year-old men in rural Cambodia, Srei Than can often be found relaxing and drinking beer with friends outside his home. But when he locks eyes with Soy Sen, who lives a short motorcycle ride away down a dusty lane, he quickly looks away.
"Whenever I see him, he walks away," Sen says.
There's good reason for this.
In 1974, when Sen was just 14, Khmer Rouge guerrillas took control of his hometown in Takeo province, to the south of the capital Phnom Penh. It was a year before they would topple the US-backed government and unleash a four-year reign of terror across the country.
Sen was sent to Kraing Ta Chan prison by the radical communists. He believes it was down to his father being a local official in the district they had just captured.
Upon entering the prison, Sen quickly realised the horrors that were unfolding there, including murder, torture and cannibalism.
"I was climbing a palm tree in the afternoon and from the top I could see two children being taken away," Sen told the tribunal in 2015.
"They usually waited for me to bring down the palm juice, but that day I heard… the sound of the cracking of children against a palm tree."
One of the most brutal guards at the prison was Than, better known by his alias "Small Duch". His namesake, a man known as Duch, ran the infamous Toul Sleng torture prison in Phnom Penh and was sentenced to life by the tribunal in 2012.
He recalls an event that has stuck in his mind ever since. One day, Sen says, Than ordered him to clear up an area after he had just committed a horrific attack on two female inmates.
"He was so cruel... he tortured me," Sen said on Friday. "One day he raped two women with an M-79 missile by putting it inside them."
Hun Sen is safe from his KR past. Started out as a Royalist, defected to the KR, then at just the right time deserted to the Viets; and anyway he has the guns and a thick skin, so the country needs to wait for the cnut to pass peacefully away in his sleep before it can properly move on.
Having participated in part of the 20 year long skirmish the Vietnamese had against colonialists, I found it quite appropriate the dreaded enemy slopes were the ones that put an end to the carnage perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge.
As a side note, the Chinese did not help the Viets. Viets have essentially been at war with China forever and in 1979 when China invaded VN to teach them a lesson, the VNs sent China packing with their tails between their legs. Same way French and US did.
As to the OP, the khmer rouge leaders got off light.
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect,"
Well looks like you got Jeff all confused.
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