Hundreds pay respects to Ta Mok

[saigon68]

Hundreds pay respects to Ta Mok



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5205534.stm






Ta Mok died ahead of a tribunal on the Khmer Rouge regime
Hundreds of Cambodians have paid their respects to Ta Mok, a former Khmer Rouge leader nicknamed "The Butcher".

In a traditional Buddhist funeral ceremony, incense was burned and prayers recited over Ta Mok's body, which was daubed with white powder.The ceremony took place in Ta Mok's former stronghold of Anlong Veng, in the north of Cambodia.

Ta Mok, who died on Friday, was the regime's military commander and linked to many atrocities of the 1970s. About 1.7 million people died under the Khmer Rouge, through a combination of starvation, disease and execution.

Correspondents say there is an irony in Ta Mok being given a Buddhist funeral. Religion was banned under the Khmer Rouge, with bodies thrown unceremoniously into mass graves and no mourning allowed.

[Warpy]

1. Buddhists are different

and believe even George W. Stupid is capable of being enlightened.

The funeral and the "honor" was a wish that such an evil human being progress toward enlightenment instead of being stuck in suffering and producing more suffering.

[kurth]

2. R.I.P. in the deepest of hells

Freakin' unbelievable.

[saigon68]

4. For the crude methods he employed ( A shovel to the head)

This guy has to down as the largest non-technology mass murderer

You got to wonder where all his "troops" are who wielded the shovels and killed 2 million people?

I suspect a few are at RimJobs site. (maybe only in spirit)

[Zorra]

3. Don't Buddhists believe in reincarnation? Do people come back as

tapeworms?