In Cambodia, the opposition organized a memorial service, 40 years to the day after the fall of Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge. This was the beginning of a regime that would cause the death of a quarter of the population. No government representative was present and no official commemoration was planned.
"Every year we remind those in power to support the tribunal to try the Khmer Rouge to take legal procedures and not to hinder in any way they supposed to do justice to Khmer people," said the head of the opposition Sam Rainsy.
There are forty, Pol Pot "turned Cambodia into hell," tell witnesses. The Khmer Rouge made two million deaths. Of Cambodians died of exhaustion, starvation, disease or as a result of torture or summary executions.
The current Prime Minister, himself a former Khmer Rouge, criticizes the culture of remembrance of this tragedy and opposes any new trial.
However, three former Khmer Rouge cadres were indicted in March by the special court in Phnom Penh sponsored by the UN.
With AFP
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