Cambodian - Khmer Rouge; Justice At Last

In the Cambodian capital, the alleged chief torturer, Kaing Guek Eav, of the Khmer Rouge appeared in court. The U.N.-backed genocide tribunal opened its first formal hearing.

The Cambodian Khmer Rouge was credited with the death of 1.7 million people. That was 21% of the Cambodian population The deaths were either from executioin, disease, starvation or overwork over a four year period. The book and the 1984 movie Killing Fields was about this dark period in Cambodian history.

Now after nearly 30 years, justice is being served. Thanks to funds from the United Nations these demons of death and torture will get displayed before the world. As the world looks on, the Cambodian people get to renounce what was done. This should give some closure to the survivors.

But why so long? It seems to me that it is almost inhuman torture to hold these men in prison all these years. The same swift speedy justice that was done to Nazis after World War II should of have been done to these men. The Nazi tortures were found tried and executed within a 10 years after the end of WWII.