Khmer Rouge Horrors Laid Out

The trial has just started of three of Pol Pot’s top lieutenants who were complicit in the killing of 2 million people. The court heard how a man’s stomach was cut open and his entrails and liver removed while still alive, and how women were forced to marry men chosen by touching hands in the dark. - The Khmer Rouge Tribunal resumed yesterday, with three surviving leaders of Pol Pot’s regime confronting the UN-endorsed court for crimes against humanity. The start of Case 002 was low key compared with the first trial, which resulted in the conviction of death camp chief Kaing Guek Eav, also known as “Duch”. However, opening arguments presented before the Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts in Cambodia (ECCC) were startling, with prosecutors focusing on the immediate forced evacuation of Phnom Penh and urban centers around the country after the Khmer Rouge seized control in April 1975.