News: Decades After Khmer Rouge’s Rule, 2 Senior Leaders Are Convicted in Cambodia

[Five Year Plan]

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — A court on Thursday found the two most senior surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime, which brutalized Cambodia during the 1970s, guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced them to life in prison.


The chief judge, Nil Nonn, said the court found that there had been “a widespread and systematic attack against the civilian population of Cambodia” and that the two former leaders were part of a “joint criminal enterprise” that bore responsibility. They were convicted of murder and extermination, among other crimes.


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/08/world/asia/decades-after-khmer-rouges-rule-2-senior-leaders-are-convicted-in-cambodia.html

[piet11111]

Is it just me or does anyone else find it completely laughable that 2 80+ year olds get life in prison while they spend the whole trial duration in jail and due to their age could keel over dead in a matter of days ?

This is so offensive to my sense of justice.

[motion denied]

Is it just me or does anyone else find it completely laughable that 2 80+ year olds get life in prison while they spend the whole trial duration in jail and due to their age could keel over dead in a matter of days ?

This is so offensive to my sense of justice.

Not that I'm comparing the two, but Argentina did convict Generals for their actions throughout the Military Dictatorship.

I don't necessarily have problems with these kind scum going to jail. No matter their age.

[Sasha]

They should have been strung up by the people ages ago, and knowing from people working with survivors there Cambodia had a glaring and disgusting lack at even the most feeble attempt of justice, reconciliation and closure one can imagine. Picture yourself surviving the holocaust and not being allowed to even mention what happend other than to entertain tourists.
On the other hand I also know a few of the defendants lawyers and while no doubt should exist about these people's guilt its hard to argue they got, within the rules set by international law, a fair trial.

[piet11111]

Not that I'm comparing the two, but Argentina did convict Generals for their actions throughout the Military Dictatorship.

I don't necessarily have problems with these kind scum going to jail. No matter their age.

Ok what pisses me off is that such total scumbags get to return to jail for what is probably a handful of years and then magically "justice is served"

I would much rather see them locked in a barn with a few relatives of their victims with an assortment of tools and just let happen what will happen.

By my sense of justice these bastards got away with it and will end up with a jail sentence that is no worse then being put in a retirement home that just so happens to lack the manpower to wheel them around in a wheelchair every other day.