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Khmer Rouge Tribunal

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Sophal Ear Escaping the Khmer Rouge

The Khmer Rouge in the Dock

Photo by Sheila Rouge, labeled for reuse.

The Khmer Rouge prosecutions will not be perfect.

It's the revitalization of the River Rouge in Dearborn.

Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans.

Not even the pathetic remnant of the Khmer Rouge celebrates Pol Pot s memory.

My family escaped the Khmer Rouge on April 17, 1975, the day they claimed victory.

Not the kind of genocidal slaughter conducted by the Khmer Rouge in the 1970 s.

The Khmer Rouge did wither away, and with it the lingering threat of renewed civil war.

Forecaster Alek Krautmann said both rivers could flood many houses in suburban areas near Baton Rouge.

Simpson was arrested without incident and taken into custody at East Baton Rouge Parish Police Department.

How the court performs matters deeply to the millions of Cambodians scarred by the crimes of the Khmer Rouge.

The 6 foot 6 forward grew up in Baton Rouge, where his father, Wayne, also played basketball for LSU.

The Baton Rouge Police Department announced the arrest of Dyteon Simpson, 20, at an 11 a.m. ET news conference.

Fifth, Cambodia has a shortage of highly qualified lawyers, because the legal profession was nearly wiped out by the Khmer Rouge.

The formal decision to create a tribunal for the Khmer Rouge represents a major achievement after a decade of diplomatic effort.

I am well aware that acts of terror have devastated many parts of the world recently, from Baghdad to Baton Rouge.

the Khmer Rouge killed over a million people, and they focused and targeted the elites and the intellectuals, the artists, the dancers.

Dyteon Simpson, 20, has been arrested and booked into prison on a second degree murder charge, the Baton Rouge Police Department said.

The Khmer Rouge were driven out of Phnom Penh by the Vietnamese in 1979, and people began to return to the city.

Deng wanted to punish the Vietnamese for their own invasion of Cambodia, which ended the genocidal rule of China s allies, the Khmer Rouge.

In Cambodia, the United Nations and the government have dickered for almost a decade about how to bring surviving Khmer Rouge figures to trial.

Thereafter, the Court will not be able to consider the crimes of the past, such as those committed by Pinochet and the Khmer Rouge.

The Comite River near Baton Rouge and Amite River near Denham Springs, both in Louisiana, were predicted to set record crests over the weekend.

If the Khmer Rouge trials are to proceed, donor countries must see the Extraordinary Chambers as a prudent investment toward a stable and productive Cambodia.

Police in Baton Rouge, La., announced Saturday that a suspect has been arrested in the shooting death of LSU basketball player Wayde Sims on Friday.

Pol Pot died in 1998, but aging senior associates like Brother Number Two Nuon Chea and ex Khmer Rouge president Khieu Samphan live freely in Cambodia.

The East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner's Office released a preliminary report Friday, saying the cause of death is a gunshot wound to the head into the neck.

There is thus concern that some in Cambodia's government which includes officials who once served under the Khmer Rouge will seek to hijack the trials for political ends.

Negotiating with the genocidal butchers of the Khmer Rouge was acutely troubling, personally and politically, for those of us involved, but those talks secured a lasting peace in Cambodia.

Three decades after the Khmer Rouge killed a quarter of Cambodia s seven million people, a court to try the most responsible surviving leaders is set to open its doors.

Khmer Rouge soldiers beat her father to death, and she remembers being shot at for sport by communist cadres as she and dozens of other peasants scuttled up a mountainside.

He is one of five former senior Khmer Rouge leaders who will be made to answer for their roles during Pol Pot s genocide, in which an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians perished.

TED Fellow Sophal Ear shares the compelling story of his family's escape from Cambodia under the rule of the Khmer Rouge. He recounts his mother's cunning and determination to save her children.

A 6 foot 6 junior who grew up in Baton Rouge, Sims played in 32 games with 10 starts last season and averaged 17.4 minutes, 5.6 points and 2.9 rebounds per game.

Here is a difficulty illustrated by the recent surrender in Cambodia of two Khmer Rouge leaders, Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea, who claim that their crimes should be forgotten, that bygones should be bygones.

The United States and other western governments fueled Cambodia's civil war in the 1970's, then lent the Khmer Rouge legitimacy in the 1980's by insisting that they continue to occupy Cambodia's seat at the UN.

If the Khmer Rouge trials are to proceed, donor countries must see the Extraordinary Chambers as a prudent investment toward a stable and productive Cambodia. Given how long it has taken to get this far, donors must act quickly to come up with the necessary funds.

He started, as I mentioned, to get in the room with evil, to not denounce, and became almost obsequious when he won the nickname Serbio, for instance, and even when he negotiated with the Khmer Rouge would black box what had occurred prior to entering the room.

Cambodia s political leaders and donor states should do more to underscore the value of wide ranging debate about the tribunal and the larger legacy of Cambodia s civil conflict. Cambodian survivors of the Khmer Rouge recall the daily fear of criticizing that regime it would be especially tragic if Cambodians did not feel free to express their views of the Extraordinary Chambers.

This poses a particular challenge in a country where lawyers were among the targets of genocidal violence, where few sitting judges possess formal legal training, and which has little tradition of judicial independence. There is thus concern that some in Cambodia's government which includes officials who once served under the Khmer Rouge will seek to hijack the trials for political ends.