Khmer Rouge defendant: Pol Pot feigned ignorance

[Coventina]

Source: Associated Press

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The late Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot was lying when he said he was unaware that his 1970s communist regime operated a torture center, the man accused of running it testified Wednesday.

Kaing Guek Eav told Cambodia's U.N.-assisted genocide tribunal, which is trying him for crimes against humanity, war crimes, murder and torture, that he knew of no document authorizing the notorious prison, but that "whatever Pol Pot decided everybody had to implement."

An estimated 1.7 million Cambodians died under the 1975-79 communist Khmer Rouge regime from forced labor, starvation, medical neglect and executions.

Kaing Guek Eav, 66, better known by his alias Duch, commanded Phnom Penh's S-21 prison, also known as Tuol Sleng, where as many as 16,000 people are believed to have been tortured before being sent to their deaths.

Pol Pot said in a 1997 interview he knew nothing of the prison.



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[JayMusgrove]

1. Maybe Bush could try to use that argument!

He knew nothing!

Yeah, that should work.

[SpiralHawk]

2. "Fabulous strategery. Smirk." - xCommander AWOL (R)

"This proves that Pol Pot had Republicon 'Family Values.' Smirk."

- xCommander AWOL (R)

[JayMusgrove]

3. Exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[SpiralHawk]

5. Totally

Ptoooey on Pol Pot and Commander AWOL Pothead & Republicon Homelander Cronies

[Stuart G]

4. Don't worry, he will................. .K & R