More Holocaust Denial

[Darth Rotor]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070112/ap_on_re_as/cambodia_khmer_rouge

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - A former Khmer Rouge leader denied in an interview published Friday that the regime whose extremist policies wiped out much of Cambodia's population in the 1970s committed mass murder.

Nuon Chea, 80, who was second only to Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, is expected to go on trial before a joint Cambodia-United Nations tribunal later this year on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.

"Why should we have killed our own people? I do not see a reason," the English-language Phnom Penh Post quoted him as saying. "We wanted a clean, illuminating and peaceful regime."

My first thought is "he's ******* me, right?"

My second thought is "Noam Chomsky, please write a column about this." (He wrote quite a bit about the Cambodia problem of the late 1970's, known to some as "Killing Fields" and others as a "genocide." )

My third thought is: how does trying him at the UN now, in 2006, advance . . . anything? Does it ease the conscience of Jimmy Carter? I hear he is on a few **** lists over his new book.

If ya don't like this guy, Nuon Chea, just be a man about it and shoot him, or cut off his medication and let nature take its course and waste him. This looks like another lovely bit of victor's justice, though who the hell won anything in Cambodia/Campuchea, is beyond me.

AE

 

[Mycroft]

My third thought is: how does trying him at the UN now, in 2006, advance . . . anything?

Well, it advances the UN as a legitimate forum for war crimes trials.