Catching up on world events, the first prosecution of Kmher Rouge leaders finally began last week. Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/17/war-crimes-tribunal-cambodia
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I wrote about The Knher Rouge in my blog last December: http://bushytailedfox.blog.co.uk/2008/12/16/year-zero-where-was-i-5233260/
Whilst it's good to see the trial finally under way (the man has been in custody for over nine years which isn't a exactly great example of international justice) it's depressing to see how few people are being prosecuted. Five I believe. And none of them are those responsible for arming, training, and feeding the Kmher Rouge after they were defeated and driven out of Cambodia by Vietnam. That, shockingly, was mostly the UK on behalf of the US (see my linked blog entry). Most specifically it was the adminstrations of Margaret Thatcher that was most invelved, at the request of Ronald Reagan.
So, in addition the likes of the five on trial, we could quite easily add a few more criminals closer to home. And I wouls start with those who instructed the SAS to go on missions with the Kmher Rouge to plant anti-personnel landmines in the middle of civilian populations. We know they did that becuase one member of the SAS was so digusted that he broke ranks and told a journalist.