Even Their Remains Should Be Handcuffed Khmer Rouge Reviled News
The victory of Pol Pot’s forces saw Yath Run separated from his parents and sent to a child labor camp in Cambodia’s rural northwestern Battambang province. Decades later, Yath Run’s anger has not dissipated at the regime that separated him from his family and whose policies and purges led to the deaths of two million people in less than four years. One life in prison was not enough, he said, speaking ahead of Thursday’s final verdict by the Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, which upheld former head of state Kieu Samphan’s life sentence for genocide and crimes against humanity....