Khmer Rouge No. 2 says regime acted for Cambodians

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

Source: AP

By SOPHENG CHEANG, Associated Press – 3 hours ago

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — The deputy leader of the Khmer Rouge regime blamed for 1.7 million deaths in Cambodia's "killing fields" insisted Tuesday he carried out its policies for the sake of Cambodians and to protect the country from invaders.

The communist movement's chief ideologist did not directly respond to the horrors that prosecutors described a day earlier at the start of the U.N.-backed tribunal for him and two other top Khmer Rouge leaders.

Instead, Nuon Chea gave a political history of the movement and Cambodia, insisted his role was patriotic, and blamed neighboring Vietnam for much of the country's troubles.

"I had to leave my family behind to liberate my motherland from colonialism and aggression and oppression by the thieves who wish to steal our land and wipe Cambodia off the face of the Earth," Nuon Chea said in his first public comments at the trial.

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[deutsey]

1. Ideologists can justify anything n/t

[sofa king]

2. After all, three out of four Cambodians were NOT murdered.

Why can't those people show a little appreciation?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. It's a deep deep psychosis with these assholes. nt

[Odin2005]

4. They destroyed the country in order to save it?

[BOG PERSON]

5. yeah, the khmer rouge really shouldn't have dropped 2,756,941 tons of ordnance on cambodia

wait a second... the khmer rouge didn't do that ...