🇰🇭 🇻🇳Khmer Rouge leaders convicted for genocide in Cambodia | Al Jazeera English
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 พ.ค. 2024
- They murdered, enslaved, and tortured their fellow citizens in Cambodia and Vietnam during the 1970s, but now, two top officials of the Khmer Rouge have also been found guilty of genocide.
A UN-backed tribunal has delivered a historic judgement against two of Pol Pot's deputies Nuon Chea, and Khieu Samphan, sentencing both to life in prison.
Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen, himself a mid-level Khmer Rouge official before defecting, has said that no more suspects should be prosecuted. There are cases against four more officials pending, but it has taken the tribunal 12 years and $300 million to convict three people and it is unclear if the remaining cases will move forward.
Al Jazeera’s Florence Looi reports from Phnom Penh where questions are being raised about the price and breadth of justice.
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they already lived their life this means nothing
It'll means something if someone was to beat the life out of them in prison.
Anton Chigurh Nah, within an inch of their lives, then rinse and repeat every day
@@PhyuckYew you know they will be those Cambodian prisons are horrifying even after the Khmer rouge
How would you feel if at the end of your life, you were finally being held accountable? I imagine that would probably be tough for them to go through, which is exactly the least they deserved.
Yeah they let them live freely for far too long and now they look like mummies like Tutenkhamen
This reminds me of the trials at Nuremberg. Then, Hitler and two or three of his top associates were missing because they committed suicide. Here, the man himself, Pol Pot, is missing because he died peacefully at his home while under house arrest. I never thought I’d be wishing that he lived longer, but now I am, so that he could’ve been tried here and convicted.
92 and 87 year olds getting life sentence. Lol justice 😂😂
Monsters like this should get an express ticket to a firing squad.
on principle, i'm against the death penalty, but i wouldn't feel bad seeing these murderers being burnt alive.
They deserve the death penalty they kill about 2 to 3 mill people
Torture and no less
they burned the western prisoners alive. one was from new zealand, who unfortunately, sailed off course when he ran into the storm and landed on the cambodia's coast. so unlucky of him since he was sent to s-21.
I feel the death penalty is appropriate in the following situations: Serial murder, pedophilia, deadly terrorism (with overwhelming evidence of guilt). If you butcher innocent people and commit monstrous attacks on children, you have no sympathy from me.
you know why Pol Pot isn't as famously evil as Adolf Hitler? Partly because people mostly tend to lean towards the western European countries. Asian countries are secretive with their own languages and that's why most of these people get away.
Stunning achievement? 87 and 92 so they might do 15 20 minutes in prison?
Wow, isn’t this an example of justice delayed, justice denied?
Totally
Good! Very glad to see them convincted.
3 people convicted for 300 million us and for 2 million dead reminds me of Los Angeles County building 120 beds for 65,000 homeless people for 2.5 billion dollars. Gross imbalance is what comes to mind
the entire world favors leftism. if the khmer rouge was right wing every single person even slightly related to it would get life in prison
Can't understand what you wrote man
The United Nations owes Vietnam an apology. They said we invaded Cambodia, but we just destroyed the genocidal regime and protect my country.
As a person of Cambodian descent, if Vietnam didn't invade Cambodia I wouldn't exist today
I agree. it was the vietnamese army that invaded the country and liberate the innocents from khmer rouge. just the vietcongs supported the khmer rouge. my dad was in one of these camps. he even told me himself, if it wasn't for the vietnamese army, he probably wouldn't survive today. he was 6 when he was separated from his family..
@@genso3065 do you know what " Vietcongs" means but you say that. Are you agreeing or mocking us?
@@genso3065 and do you know what vietnamese army is? Who are they?
@@nguyenviethung608 what are you talking about? As you can clearly see. I said I agree with you. I will say it again. If it weren't for the vietnamese soldiers, my dad and many others would probably not survived.
Too little too late
cost of 300 million dollars? where did that money go?
What was the point? They lived their whole lives and are still not in jail.$300 million for three people. Something wrong with this process.
They need Trump, this wouldnt happen with him in charge.
We need this for Eritrean regime also
Our people still suffer 3 years later...don't worry, I will free our nation.
The question is Who is Angkaar ? vn?
What a waste of $300 million
Tôi là người Việt Nam ai có thể dịch cho tôi hiểu video nói gì không .
Americans killed two million Vietnamese, over one million Iraqis, how many have been charged for their genocidal crimes?
Truth. Many don't even know...
Only god may know, they
They really should tried the leaders of each village or commune as they ordered the killings at those places. The cadres just obey orders to kill and rape, they’re in the wrong but trialing them isn’t practical
What about perez liebermann kissinger barak netanyahu. One day they will be tried in the court. Chanches when they are too old
Funny you say that, when Al Jazeera Arabic denied the Holocaust.
Is too late... tooooo late... but better than nothing
Too little , too late .
This is a joke. Took them that long to convict them. And Pol Pot was allowed to live out his life and die of old age. Stupid
A policy by goverment to never be a point in a time or a country.
300 million? I would like to see an itemized breakdown of this operation.
They have families, right?
I'm sorry, but doesn't Cambodia have courts? Why do foreigners need to convict them? Amazing how the eastern European torturers have never been brought to justice. What are the odds that these guys would be acquitted? Would these foreigners ever say "I'm so sorry guys, we made a mistake!"
This court is a joke and has no jurisdiction over Cambodia.
What about the Western European torturers? Oh and US Torturers? CIA
@@rayman17578 What about them?
@@capncake8837 Look at how mant they have killed in the middle east
thankyou for not talking about any help form VN who help defeated the khmer rough and help milions cambodian not starve to death . at the same time the Us and UN was aiding the khmer rough to regain power since they are 1 of VN's foes . good job right there i can see
I know what you mean but this is about the punishment of Khmer rouge leaders not about the war in general
too little too late
Whats happened to Vietnam, Asia, canbodia is all US fault
What about the C.I.A who supported this murder machine.NEVER will they be held to account.They be all retired living on big pensions,spoiling and loving their grandchildren.I have pain looking back at our recent history.
So no one appologize vietnam for embargoing??
Good victory.
day lait dollar short....but never to lait
its a drama,
VERY VERY EARLY TO CONVICT ANY ONE §§§§§§§§§§§§
Hô nam hông 🇻🇳😅
Everything-lie
peaceful communist
To late