COMMUNISM IS EVIL: FUNK TROOPS : COMPOSED OF NVN/VC TROOPS, PATHET LAO, KHMER ROUGE TROOPS, KHMER VIETMINH, KHMER SIHANOUK TROOPS 1970-1979. Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Apology Offered at Khmer Rouge Trial ( DUCH part of the FUNK TROOPS , A VIETNAMESE ) Kaing Guek Eav(VIETNAMESE ), the commandant of a torture house, read a statement during his trial in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Tuesday. (Associated Press) Chief Khmer Rouge torturer Kaing Guek Eav(VIETNAMESE), also known as Duch, stands between his lawyers for his trial on the outskirts of Phnom Penh March 30 ,2009. Duch faced trial for crimes against humanity on Monday, the first involving a senior Pol Pot cadre 30 years after the end of a regime blamed for 1.7 million deaths. REUTERS/Pring Samrang/Pool Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav(VIETNAMESE ), also known as 'Duch,' is seen during the first day of a U.N.-backed tribunal Monday March 30, 2009, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Prosecutors opened their first case against the hard-core communists who turned the country into a killing field three decades ago. (AP Photo/Mak Remissa, Pool) Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav(VIETNAMESE), left, also know as 'Duch,' reads documents at a U.N.-backed tribunal Monday, March 30, 2009, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The notorious torture center boss went before Cambodia's genocide tribunal Monday for its first trial over the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people at the hands of the Khmer Rouge regime more than three decades ago. (AP Photo/Mak Remissa, Pool) March 31, 2009 By SETH MYDANS The New York Times PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The commandant of the most prominent Khmer Rouge torture house apologized in court Tuesday for atrocities he had committed but said that he had feared for his own life and that he was being made a scapegoat for others. “I would like to express my regret and heartfelt sorrow,” said the commandant, Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, who is the first defendant in a trial involving the deaths of 1.7 million people from 1975 to 1979 from starvation, overwork and disease, as well as torture and execution. “My current plea is that I would like you to please leave an open window for me to seek forgiveness,” said Duch, who is 66. One of five defendants in the United Nations-backed trial, he faces a possible life sentence on charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes as well as homicide and torture. Hun Sen AND HIS 360 THIEVES : Let us describe this thief . HOR NAM HONG deputy PM or HUN SEN'S BIG THIEF . ACCORDING TO THIS FORMULA : THIS BOOK : " GIAI PHONG " by T Terzani. It describes a Vietnamese as THIEF, A LIAR, A KILLER, A DECEIVER , a sleeper ...... Hor Namhong,(VIETNAMESE , HIDING BEHIND THE LABEL KHMER ROUGE), RESPOSNSIBLE FOR 800 KHMER ELITE DEAD AT BENG TRABEK SCHOOL ) ministre des Affaires étrangères © Pring Samrang HOR NAM HONG , A VIETNAMESE ,APPOINTED AS FOREIGN MINISTER OF CAMBODIA TO NEGOTIATE AND TALK ON BEHALF OF THE KHMER PEOPLE HERE. HOR NAM HONG (VIETNAMESE ) REMAINS FREE AS OF TODAY. He concluded his 18-minute address by presenting the court with a strange pencil sketch of men at desks and piles of skulls that he said explained the workings of the Khmer Rouge hierarchy. In an intense second day of testimony in a trial that has been delayed by war and politics for 30 years, one of the prosecutors, Robert Petit, portrayed Duch as a committed and ruthless chief of Tuol Sleng prison and questioned the sincerity of his expressions of remorse. “The accused was knowingly and intentionally in control of the entire Tuol Sleng criminal enterprise,” he said, noting that his contrition had only come many years later. “Rather than a victim of fear, he was the one who created fear,” he said. He illustrated what he said was Duch’s brutality by describing the fate of his “teacher and mentor,” Chay Kim Huor, who recruited him into the communist party in 1964. “Fifteen years later the accused would supervise the torture and execution of Chay,” Petit said. “That single fact I submit as highly revealing.” At a news conference after the court session, a lawyer representing civil parties in the case, said Duch’s apology addressed a deep need among victims, whose traumas have not been publicly acknowledged for three decades. “The most important thing is that he spoke today and expressed regret, remorse, and sought forgiveness, which was something the civil parties have been waiting for for a long time,” said the lawyer, Martine Jacquin. Duch’s biographer, Nic Dunlop — the journalist who discovered him living incognito 10 years ago — - said that even if it was tactical, Duch’s apology was significant. He said his cooperation and truth-telling would offer some of the historical clarification that many Cambodians are seeking. Duch’s lawyers presented a vigorous defense of a man who has admitted to overseeing the torture and execution of at least 14,000 people, portraying him as a man trapped inside a giant killing machine who now finds himself singled out for prosecution. Asserting that Tuol Sleng was just one of 196 similar institutions — and far from the worst of them — one of his lawyers, Kat Savuth, asked: “Is it fair? Is this called justice?” “Each prison had the same orders from Angkar,” he said, referring to the Khmer Rouge leadership, “all conducted torture and execution. Why is only Duch brought to trial? He is only a scapegoat.” He added: “It would be better not to try anyone than to try some and leave others at large.” Duch’s second lawyer, Francois Roux, said Duch was part of a hierarchy of terror in which all the actors were in effect victims as well as perpetrators. “It was because of the terror that every link in the chain of command acted zealously to please superiors,” he said. Duch had admitted his part in sowing fear among his subordinates, he said. “Does this mean therefore that we should cloak in silence the fact that he himself received orders? What we agree happened below happened equally above him.” Taking his argument of moral equivalence a step further, he said that just as Duch had dehumanized his victims, his accusers and victims were guilty of dehumanizing him. “Duch remains a human being,” he said, addressing the prosecutors. “Maybe there are certain points at which he has a bit of trouble admitting certain things. But maybe you as well have trouble admitting certain things.” In his address to the court, Duch said he did not even dare think about challenging orders he received from his superiors. “So it was a life or death situation for me myself, and my family as a whole,” he said. “As the person in charge of Tuol Sleng I never attempted to find an alternative other than obeying an order, even though I knew that obeying the order meant that numerous people would perish.” He said he felt remorse and shame “in the eyes of those who were victims and those who lost loved ones in the regime, including my own loved ones, who lost family members as well.” CONCLUSION : A COMMUNIST, A VIETNAMESE COMMUNIST IN THE PERSON OF DUCH INVOLVED IN THE KILLING OF THE INNOCENT CAMBODIANS. THE VIETNAMESE COMMUNIST MUST APOLOGY TO ALL THE KHMER PEOPLE. UN Passes Strong Resolution on Cambodia Human Rights Abuses Feb. 27, 1982 : UN Commission on Human Rights meeting in Geneva adopted a resolution condemning Vietnam’s occupation of Cambodia as a violation of Cambodian human rights. The vote was 28 in favor, 8 against, and 5 abstentions. Oct. 21, 1986 The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution A/RES/41/6, by vote of 116-21 with 13 abstentions, calling for a withdrawal of Vietnamese forces from Cambodia. Kaing Kek Iev, aka Duch, was arrested in 1999. According to the Morphology study on race and forensic data nalysis ,Kaing Kek Iev, aka Duch is A VIETNAMESE. BURY =================================================================== Histoire. 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