Nuon Chea dead at 93

Anchor Moy · Post by **Anchor Moy** » Tue Aug 06, 2019 2:48 pm

Cry me a river. He will be missed. From today's Khmer Times:

Pailin province – Brother Number 2 Nuon Chea’s body was laid to rest at a pagoda near the Thai-Cambodian border where friends and relatives trickled to pay homage.

Venerable Chansomai, chief monk of Kirimorokot pagoda, said when Mr Chea was alive, he chose monks at the pagoda to cremate his body.
“Until now I have never forgotten his good deed that he educated monks at the Kirimorokot pagoda,” Ven Chansomai said, adding that Mr Chea initiated the building of the pagoda.

“I do not know what he had done in the past, but after the integration, he did good things for people and monks here,” he said, referring to the integration of Khmer Rouge soldiers into the government in 1998. “For me, he was a good person and a hero. Even if there were accusations leveled against him, he only talked about patriotism and Buddhism.”
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50630601/f ... nuon-chea/

Duncan · Post by **Duncan** » Tue Aug 06, 2019 3:19 pm

That's a pretty overpowering and upsetting documentary for me to watch. Going to have to watch the rest of it sometime later.

Anchor Moy · Post by **Anchor Moy** » Tue Aug 06, 2019 3:27 pm

Duncan wrote: ↑Tue Aug 06, 2019 3:19 pm That's a pretty overpowering and upsetting documentary for me to watch. Going to have to watch the rest of it sometime later.

Thanks. Good to know. I will also watch it later.

Arget · Post by **Arget** » Tue Aug 06, 2019 3:59 pm

I had to take a break and come back to it. He still thought that he was right in his thinking.

xandreu · Post by **xandreu** » Tue Aug 06, 2019 6:08 pm

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-49234224

CEOCambodiaNews · Post by **CEOCambodiaNews** » Thu Aug 08, 2019 1:52 pm

And what next for the Khmer Rouge trials ?

Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge Trials Must Continue, Rights Groups and Survivors Say
By RFA - August 8, 2019
The death in Cambodia last week of Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea has left unfinished a full accounting of the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge against Cambodians and others, survivors and rights groups say, with one group calling for further prosecutions.

Nuon Chea, the right-hand man to the Khmer Rouge’s late leader, Pol Pot, died at the age of 93 while serving a life sentence in prison, putting an end to his appeal of a conviction on charges of genocide, according to the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Cambodia that found him guilty last year.

News of Nuon Chea’s death on Aug. 4 prompted survivors and relatives of victims to lament a lack of closure to the atrocities of Khmer Rouge regime, whose leadership oversaw the killing of nearly two million people during its 1975-79 reign of terror in Cambodia.

In full: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambod ... 01038.html

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Interesting article on BBC News front page about Pol Pots right hand man.

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