The poor girl whose parents were killed by Pol Pot's regime in Cambodia said that 3 is not enough! what was she was referring to? Well it is the total number of people that are being charged in a cambodian court over the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge committed in the 1970s. The film the Killing Fields brought the horror of the regime to our screens in the 1980s. It was estimated that over 1 million people died of starvation and torture during the "Agrarian Revolution" that forced people from the cities into the countryside to serve the state.
It seems so many atrocities in the 20th Century on a massive scale such as the Holocaust, Ethnic Cleansing in former Yugoslavia, Rwandan Genocide, Mass starvation from ill conceived policies and wars go unpunished. The Nuremburg trials following WW2 didn't really dish out justice and it doesnt look like Cambodia will get its justice either.
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