Accusations of corruption threaten to discredit the trial of the Khmers Rouges

@ Peter.Ratna

Efforts to stop killings and genocide have never been among the toothless international community's few strong points.

It is only after the dictators, bandits, thugs and stormtroopers are satisfied with their jobs does the rest of the world intervene. Perhaps it would be better to just let them go. Who are we to dole out justice--we, sitting comfortably in our homes are just as guilty. e may not have pulled the trigger or thrown the grenade, but we allowed it to happen when something could have been done about it.

These guys are merely humanity's scapegoats. we're all responsible--either actively, or through our complacency on the actions when they happened.

Any effort to bring these people to justice is most welcome.

However, shouldn't at least half as much effort be made to cease ongoing crimes against humanity in countries like Sri Lanka and Sudan?

Former Cambodian regime's notorius S-21 prision warden,Duch did utter "heart felt sorrow" for keeling and torturing prisoner in his trial, but his excuse was "he had to follow the order, otherwise he would be killed" , it's better to have thousands of other innocent people killed than himself being killed. This kind of mentality engraved in all dictators' assitants' minds. it shows that they don't respect other people's life. There are alternatives, one dosen't have to fowllow the order also save his own life if he has any human decency. Though the court has some suspects of corruption, it is good to expose human abuse crime anywhere anytime. taiwanlong