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Surviving Khmer Rouge Leader Implicated in 1.7 Million Deaths Caught
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by PEP | September 18, 2007 at 08:35 pm
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You can run, but you can't hide forever--not when you helped to brutalize and kill an estimated 1.7 million people. The last trigger man of the notoriouis Pol Pot regime is now in custody.
Police detained the top surviving leader of the Khmer Rouge on Wednesday over his role in the notorious former Cambodian regime that caused the deaths of 1.7 million people in the late 1970s.Nuon Chea was taken by police escort from his home in Pailin in northwestern Cambodia near the Thai border, police and witnesses said, and was flown by helicopter to the capital, Phnom Penh.
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Jordan Yerman
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at 06:54 on September 19th, 2007
Great find. Not all genocide wears a swastika, and this sort of ethnic/ideological cleansing is far from dead.