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leader Kiang Guek Eav also known as “Duch” has finished and he is awaiting sentence. He was charged with crimes of torture and premedi- tated murder at the infa- mous S-21 camp. There will be at least a few more trials before the Tribunal winds down its mandate
THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, April 29, 2010
in 2015. According to a state-
ment, “The ECCC has confirmed its ability to conduct complex inter- national criminal trials to international standards.” Yet the obvious question arises; with so many of the perpetuators of the Khmer Rouge genocide still alive, and many liv-
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ing openly in Cambodia, why is the Tribunal’s mandate so narrow? Clearly there are large
numbers in Cambodi- an society who are will- ing to turn the page on the past, or who more likely, fear returning to the past. Confronting the living ghosts of the Pol Pot regime raises
fears and a specter of a Cambodia which existed before probably most of the current population was even born. The frag- ile peace, fractious de- mocracy, and fluctuating economic development have moved forward but could quickly wilt in the hot light of recrimina- tions and perhaps worse.
Revenge for the crimes of the genocidal regime is not the issue, but jus- tice clearly should be the goal.
John J. Metzler is a United Nations correspon- dent covering diplomatic and defense issues.
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tight control from the top down remains the norm. Ironically, the United
States is moving in the direction of the kind of economy that China has been forced to move away from. China once had complete government control of medical care, but eventually gave it up as the disaster that it was. The current leadership
in Washington operates as if they can just set arbitrary goals, whether “affordable housing” or “universal health care” or anything else -- and not concern themselves with the repercussions -- since they have the power to simply force individuals, businesses, doctors or anyone else to knuckle under and follow their dictates. Friedrich Hayek called
this mindset “the road to serfdom.” But, even un- der serfdom and slavery, experience forced those with power to recognize the limits of their power. What this administra- tion -- and especially the President -- does not have is experience. Barack Obama had
no experience running even the most modest business, and personally paying the consequences of his mistakes, before becoming President of the United States. He can believe that his heady new power is the answer to all things.
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