This is what the war has done to me. Now I want to destroy because of it. There is such hate and rage inside of me now. The Angkar (Khmer Rouge government) has taught me to hate so deeply that I know I have the power to destroy and kill,
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With the Khmer Rouge tribunal, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD is an important issue to be addressed, and TPO is one of the few NGO's that can take care of this,
The government must be convinced to support the organization and the functioning of an international tribunal to prosecute the Khmer Rouge.
The Khmer Rouge (which then was fighting for control of Cambodia) had a policy of taking no prisoners. They executed them pretty much on the spot.
If the court can bring this (the Khmer Rouge) case to justice it will prove it can work. We won't be able to tell if the court works or not until we test it.
When the great powers pushed the war into Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge found a recruiting tool, a full-scale war, and a full-scale enemy.
The crimes committed by the North Vietnamese regime against the Vietnamese people were minor compared to the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge against the Cambodians, but for us on the left they were emotionally far more significant.
I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. I encouraged the Thai to help the Khmer Rouge. The question was how to help the Cambodian people. Pol Pot was an abomination. We could never support him. But China could.
The trial organized with U.N. participation of some kind will be for crimes committed by Khmer Rouge leaders from 1975 to 1979. That's it.
My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.