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Title: Court to quiz accused Khmer Rouge trio
Added: Dec 4, 2011
Author: AlJazeeraEnglish
Duration: 2:23
Description:
Three senior leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime will be questioned at a UN-backed tribunal for the first time over their roles in the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people when their movement held power in the 1970s.The long-awaited trial began late last month with opening statements, and this week the court is expected to focus on charges involving the forced movement of people and crimes against humanity.After the Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975, they began moving an estimated 1 million people, even hospital patients, from the capital into the countryside in an effort to create a communist agrarian utopia.The defendants are accused of crimes against humanity, genocide, religious persecution, homicide and torture stemming from the group's 1975-79 reign of terror. All have denied wrongdoing.Al Jazeera's Rob McBride reports from the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh.
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Youtube Comments: 10
FlankerVT Says:
Dec 4, 2011 - I don't care about this!!!
proxy4718 Says:
Dec 4, 2011 - BS! stop, stop, stop. Al jazeera we know you are controlled by the British that set up the middle east a century ago. your a lame duck and have no influence. do us a favor and just shut up
proxy4718 Says:
Dec 4, 2011 - BS! stop, stop, stop. Al jazeera we know you are controlled by the British that set up the middle east a century ago. your a lame duck and have no influence. do us a favor and just shut up
schlagerhansi Says:
Dec 4, 2011 - Sihanouk is living in luxury as an honorable man, as Shakespeare would say, while his underlings are put to trial...
einLesenderArbeiter Says:
Dec 4, 2011 - @digitalbullshit true. that makes a lot more sense.
jm071959 Says:
Feb 12, 2012 - Funny answer... Since when are the former khmer rouge Sihanouk's underlings? He was arrested by them and kept in prison. War lord Tamok wanted to have him executed he only survived because Pol Pot thought he was more valuable asset to him alive then dead. If you say such things young man you need to have some knowledge of cambodian history and come up with proofs to sustain your very dubious points.
schlagerhansi Says:
Feb 12, 2012 - Funny -- or not -- how short your memory is: In April 1976, S. was toppled by the K.R. and kept in house arrest for a couple of weeks, then was left unharmed.Only in January 1979, when the Vietnamese conquered Cambodia from the K.R., S. fled to China, then to North Korea. In 1989, the Vietnamese left Cambodia, and in 1991, the K.R., and others, let him come back and made him their chief of state again. And why is S. evading the tribunal?
einLesenderArbeiter Says:
Dec 4, 2011 - 0:30 "a kind of traumatics... uh... jew"? can anybody tell me what he said there??