The first war-crimes conviction in Cambodia was long overdue

we could also put the CIA on trial for supporting the KR during the civil war. the petty and vindictive CIA fully embraced the enemy of my enemy is my friend and fed them arms and money while they fought the vietnamese. unfortunatly the cambodian people are the ones that really suffered under the civil war, not the vietnamese. makes me proud to be an american

The "killing fields" are not limited just to Cambodia, but exist in places like Hiroshima-Nagasaki, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq & Afghanistan to name a few prominent ones.

And just like leaders of the Khmer Rouge are being rightfully indicted for their heinous crimes, so also should the leaders & concerned authorities of the 'other' killing fields be charged with their horrific crimes against humanity & genocide, in fairness to their innocent civilian victims too.

I lived in Phonm Penh for a year in the 1990s, part of the time just a couple of blocks from Toul Sleng, by then a museum. This was immediately after UN took control. Many of the people I worked with had most awful tales to tell about what happened to their families. I could never visit Toul Sleng.

The Khmer rouge slaughter was absolutely horrific. I went to see that prison in 1992 and will always remember the photographs on the walls. Yes, they photographed the tortured before taking them out to die. And then there was the tree outback, where they crushed babies skulls in front of their mothers, before killing the mother. They decapitated their victims because in Buddhist lore, they will wander about forever looking for that head. So when they informed the victim of this future, they added an eternity of pain. I visited killing fields in Ratanakiri Province, and saw for myself the open fields where they planted trees in the holes that had been filled with bodies. But yes, there were many such horror stories in the 20th century and nobody can say they were not part of the worst ever human historical events. Yet we often acted as if they were not happening. How many have asked about the Iraqui killed in the invasion and the establishment of control over the city, and the massive numbers who fled in fear and live in camps. We have actresses hanging out with murderous leaders, we have Savimbi visiting the Reagan White House. Need I go on...