Attention John Kerry
Not long ago, John Kerry made the ludicrous claim that no genocide followed the American withdrawal from Vietnam. Well, Kerry's beloved United Nations would beg to differ with him. Today, the UN-sponsored Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia has arrested their second former Khmer Rouge official on charges of crimes against humanity. You know, genocide.
Nuon Chea was arrested early Wednesday morning at his home in Pailin in northwestern Cambodia near the Thai border and flown to the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, where he was put in the custody of a U.N.-supported genocide tribunal.
The tribunal is investigating abuses committed when the communist Khmer Rouge held power in 1975-79. The Khmer Rouge have been blamed for the deaths of their countrymen from starvation, ill health, overwork and execution.
A statement released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia — the formal name by which the tribunal is known — said Nuon Chea had been placed in "provisional detention."
Police surrounded his home in Pailin in northwestern Cambodia near the Thai border and served him with an arrest warrant. Police Capt. Sem Sophal said he was being arrested on charges of crimes against humanity, but did not show a copy of the warrant to reporters.
Officers later took the 82-year-old Nuon Chea — who denies any wrongdoing — into custody and put him into a car and then a helicopter for the capital, Phnom Penh, as his son and dozens of onlookers gathered to watch the historic scene in silence, witnesses said.
Nuon Chea was the chief ideologue for the Khmer Rouge. Last month they arrested and charged Kang Kek Ieu, also known as Duch. He was the head of the Tuol Sleng prison. That sort of thing happens when America abandons allies, Senator Kerry.
Civilization, Crime, World news | Gaius Wednesday, 19 September , 2007
By David M, Wednesday, 19 September , 2007 @ 11:11 am
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