Up to 200 children killed at Khmer Rouge prison

[Coventina]

Source: ABC News

The United Nations-backed tribunal in Cambodia has heard how up to 200 children were among the thousands of prisoners processed and killed at the Khmer Rouge's most infamous detention centre.

Sous Thy, a former guard and bookkeeper at the S-21 prison, says between 100 and 200 children were separated from their parents who were brought to the camp during the Khmer Rouge rule.

Although prison records were kept for adults, Sous Thy says no such records were kept of the children.

They were bludgeoned to death in the Killing Fields on the outskirts of the capital.

This is the first time that a number has been put on the children killed at the camp, and the prison was just one of hundreds used by the communist government in the mid-1970s.

Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/28/2639059.htm?section=justin

[YOY]

1. This is news?

Pretty much well known infants in their mothers' arms would be snatched to be bludgeoned by the KR.

[David__77]

2. I'm very surprised the number and ratio are not higher.

Many of the "Khmer Rouge" cadre were themselves under 18 years in age. And these cadre were disproportionately the ones being killed as "spies," etc. Perhaps the youngest were spared more in line with their semi-anarchist "wipe the slate clean" ideology.

[Rebubula]

3. I agree

I would have thought that number to be much higher.

The evil that men do frightens me. As bad as W was (thank god that asshole is gone), there are people and ideologies that are MUCH worse. At least we had the freedom to make complaints...

[winyanstaz]

4. Tell that to the children raped and tortured by Americans

in the prisons in Iraq how we are "not as bad". How many of them died? We have no idea.

[AlphaCentauri]

5. Thanks for the propaganda

alway when we accuse others of genocide we generalize to a certain extend, like the Russians, the Germans, the Japanese, the communist but when it is our turn we blame individuals like X soldier tortured someone or abuse someone, the ex president ordered the war, so we are not guilty for the millions who die in each war, we are just spectators I guess.

This story just proof one thing, that leftist could be as cruel as the right wing governments that the US had supported for years around the world.

[David__77]

6. I disagree with the premise here.

The US is responsible for millions of deaths, from Korea to Vietnam to Cambodia to Nicaragua to Iraq to Indonesia to Chile. Is that river of blood somehow less important because it was created in the name of "democracy?" I don't believe it for a second.

[marshall]

7. When I was there in 07 I was shown the "killing tree"

Small children and infants were held by the ankles and their heads were bashed into the trunk of the tree.

It boggles the mind.

[SOS]

8. Reagan and Old Bush

recognized only the Khmer Rouge as the legitimate government of Cambodia.
That gem is always omitted from these stories.