Khmer Rouge 'First Lady' in Cambodia court tirade

[Coventina]

Source: AFP

PHNOM PENH (AFP) — The former Khmer Rouge "First Lady" launched an angry tirade at Cambodia's UN-backed genocide tribunal on Tuesday, telling her accusers they would be "cursed to the seventh circle of hell."

Ieng Thirith, 76, facing trial for crimes against humanity under the communist regime, at first told the court that defence lawyers would speak on her behalf during her appeal against detention, saying: "I am too weak."

But she later erupted at the prosecution's suggestion that she was aware of atrocities at the notorious Tuol Sleng prison while she served as social affairs minister during the Khmer Rouge's 1975-1979 rule.

"Don't accuse me of being a murderer, otherwise you will cursed to the seventh circle of hell," Ieng Thirith said in an 15-minute outburst.



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Well, she's apparently not too weak to have a temper tantrum...

[Captain Hilts]

1. Meet, Madame Ceaucescu. nt

[Voice for Peace]

2. Where is the seventh circle of hell, anyway?

[Coventina]

3. Well, if she was making a Dante reference

the seventh circle is one of 9 concentric rings of hell.

The seventh circle is for the people who were violent. Hmmm...it seems to me that she ought to be worried about ending up there herself!

[YOY]

4. According to Dante...

http://web.eku.edu/flash/inferno/

Did she mean the ninth? That's where traitors go. Or is this some Buddhist version (local or otherwise) that I am unaware of.

At any rate she's lucky they didn't do what they did in Romania to Mrs. CHauchescu.

[happygoluckytoyou]

5. go to the sixth circle of hell... make a hard right turn at the burning republican

[Coventina]

6. No, the Republicans are in the 8th circle, 5th bolgia (ditch) reserved for

corrupt polititians!

:evilgrin: