Former Khmer Rouge Leader Detained

Former Khmer Rouge Leader Detained
Published: 9/19/07, 4:05 AM EDT
By SOPHENG CHEANG

PAILIN, Cambodia (AP) - Police arrested the top surviving Khmer Rouge leader Wednesday, taking Nuon Chea to appear before a U.N-backed genocide tribunal for his role in the 1970s Cambodian regime blamed for the deaths of 1.7 million people.

Police surrounded his home in Pailin in northwestern Cambodia near the Thai border and served him with an arrest warrant on charges of crimes against humanity, police Capt. Sem Sophal said.

Officers later took the 82-year-old Nuon Chea - who denies any wrongdoing - into custody and put him into a car and then a helicopter headed for the capital, Phnom Penh, as his son and dozens of onlookers gathered to watch in silence, witnesses said.

"My father is happy to shed light on the Khmer Rouge regime for the world and people to understand," Nuon Say said afterward.

In Phnom Penh, a convoy transported Nuon Chea from a military airport in the capital to the tribunal's offices. Tribunal spokesman Reach Sambath said the co-investigating judges were expected to question Nuon Chea later Wednesday.

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:eyes:

I was so young during this time and I don't remember too much of it. However I remember watching a movie at a theater about the massacre of the Cambodian people and Pol Pot. I just can't remember the name of it. I think it even won an Academy Award.

Sorry, my brain just doesn't have recall anymore.

That was the movie. It left me feeling so sick. Was the "accused" portrayed in the movie?

I'm going to have to get that movie and watch it again, I think.

he meant blood.

My father was happy to shed more blood of innocent men, women and children. Now...he's not so happy.

They probably should look into the activitiesof the son during that period.
If his father is 82, his son is probably 50 at least. He was probably involved upto his souless face in Khmer atrocities.