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Eugene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-19-07 07:43 AM
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Top Khmer Rouge leader arrested
Source: BBC News

Last Updated: Wednesday, 19 September 2007, 07:47 GMT 08:47 UK

Top Khmer Rouge leader arrested

Police in Cambodia have arrested the most senior surviving
member of the notorious Khmer Rouge regime, as part of a
UN-backed genocide investigation.

Nuon Chea was flown from his jungle home to the capital,
Phnom Penh, to appear before Cambodian and foreign jurists
in a special genocide tribunal.

The 82-year-old was second-in-command to Khmer Rouge
leader Pol Pot.

More than a million people are thought to have died during
the four years of Khmer Rouge rule between 1975-79.

Nuon Chea, who was also known as "Brother Number Two",
has spent the past few decades living freely in Pailin, the
movement's former jungle headquarters.

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Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7002053.stm
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-19-07 07:53 AM
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1. Betya he "dies in his sleep" like Pol Pot did.
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Catshrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-19-07 07:54 AM
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2. Another #2 captured!
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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-19-07 07:56 AM
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3. 30 years later, he's 82 years old...but he will be held to account
pay attention, dubya. it may be 2038, but one day, someone will hold you to account.
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-19-07 08:20 AM
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4. Rotten bastich
I hope they find a youth serum so they can make him young again to truly "enjoy" his life sentence. After this many years I highly doubt he's regretted much or is capable of regret.
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