In news I was pretty sure I would not live to see, judges in Phnom Penh today said they are ready to start the LONG-delayed Khmer Rouge trials.
While Brother Number One Pol Pot went to face a higher form of justice almost ten years ago, big boys like Khieu Samphan and Ieng Sary are still on this side of the daisies and are eligible for trial. One would think, since their sicko "social experiment" from 1975-1979 killed approx 2 million Cambodians, they might even be eligible for the Saddam Special.
This has been a political football of the highest order for the past twenty years or so, and delays of every description made trials before the defendants died of old age the longest of longshots. It remains to be seen who gets charged, with what crimes, and if the trials are going to be, you know, trials, but it's still a huge step.
And a reaffirming one at that. Hopefully, justice will finally prevail.
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