Nov 12: Cambodian Police has detained two key ministers of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime from their house on Sunday morning and carry them to Cambodia's UN-backed genocide tribunal to face the charges that is yet to be disclosed, a tribunal spokesman said.
According to Reach Sambath, a member of tribunal court, “The Cambodian police along with some tribunal officers today reached at the home of former Foreign Minister, Leng Sary and arrested him with his wife Leng Thirtieth and brought them to Cambodia's UN-backed genocide tribunal to face charges”.
Leng Sary and Leng Thirtieth, who were also a part of Khmer Rouge government as a minister for social affairs, have been living freely in their gorgeous villa at dawn in Phnom Penh since more than last 10 years. The police reached to them at 6:00 am local time and carried them ‘safely’ to the tribunal court at 10.00 am for facing the charges. Both of them would be presented today before the co-investigation judiciary of UN-backed tribunal to face the charges.
The people and the administration of the country were expecting that both of the ministers might be soon under custody, as the tribunal court had earlier issued the ‘arrest warrant’ against five unnamed major persons, who were the part of the Khmer Rouge’s government and both of them might be the ‘wanted’ persons.
Earlier, two months before two other big ministers had been caught and waiting for their trial in the Cambodian jail that is expected to begin to the next year. These two ministers are Kang Kek Leu or Duch and his wife Khieu Thirith. Both of them were arrested under the charges of ‘crimes against humanity’.
Leng Sary and his wife Leng Tirtieth were repeatedly denying about any sort crimes while both of them were on the leading job of 20 th century’s heinous crimes of killing about 1.7 million people through starvation, disease, overwork and execution. The Khmer Rouge regime is defamed for its cruel fundamentalist ruling. All the ministers were blamed to behaving the public in the extremist way and their communist radical policies were blamed to kill almost 1.7 million people via killing humanity. The examples of the torture methods used by the brutal government can be seen at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Vietnam.
If all the suspected ministers find guilty, they may go for the life imprisonment as a maximum punishment. A panel of five-member judges includes three UN and two Cambodian judges will hear the trial.
A tribunal court was formed with a worth of $56 million last year by United Nation after seven years long negations with the Cambodian government. The critics of the globe were warning the government about the decaying age of the suspects. According to them, “if government won’t take action against the tainted ministers, most of them can not face the court and might be assessed as the neat and clean face”.
About Khmer Rouge Regime
The Khmer Rouge, also known as Khmer Communist Party and the National Army of Democratic Kampuchea were formed the government in 1975. Khmer/ Khmer Krohorm was the ruling political party of Cambodia and later renamed as the Democratic Kampuchea and later Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) from 1975 to 1979. The term ‘Khmer Rouge’ derives from the French word ‘Red Khmer’. It was used to refer to a succession of Communist parties in Cambodia that evolved into the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK).
All the Khmer ministers were studied from the France. Pol Pat was the leader of them and also became the chief of the ruling party. Some of the Khmer brothers are:
Crimes against humanity
The Khmer Rouge government arrested, tortured and eventually executed anyone suspected of belonging to several categories of supposed "enemies":
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