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    NO REAL JUSTICE FOR THE KILLING FIELDS
    Bruce Walker

    The New American
    http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/world-mainmenu-26/asia-mainmenu-33/4150-no-real-justice-for-the-killing-fields
    July 28 2010

    Reuters reported that a United Nations tribunal has tried and sentenced
    Kaing Guek Eav, the first Khmer Rouge commander to face charges of
    crimes against humanity for murder, rape, and similar horrific crimes.

    When Kaing ran Toul Sleng prison during the years following the
    communist takeover of Cambodia, he oversaw the murder of 14,000. He
    was sentenced to 35 years in prison, but his sentenced was reduced
    by 19 years for time served, and he might be released earlier if he
    shows signs of rehabilitation. Kaing Guek Eav is 67 years old, so he
    has an excellent chance of dying in prison before his sentence ends.

    There is absolutely no doubt that the Khmer Rouge committed those
    deeds that have come to be called "crimes against humanity."

    Communism was responsible for the brutal extermination of 100 million
    people in the 20th century, making it the most murderous ideology in
    the history of the world. Surely no one will shed tears for Kaing,
    a sadist who has shown no remorse for the murder, mayhem, torture,
    and rape committed under his supervision. But the extra-legal process
    of trying and sentencing this thug cannot be condoned by decent men
    and women. Why?

    First, international law is not really "law" at all. Who creates this
    legal system? Unelected bureaucrats in nongovernmental organizations
    do, for the most part. The normal process of passing laws is utterly
    ignored in the making of international law. If Cambodia had formed
    a government and chosen to try Kaing, that would be one thing. But
    that has not happened. Instead, an imaginary system of justice has
    been invented to supersede normal justice.

    Second, the application of this international law is wildly uneven.

    The Nuremberg Trials, for example, took place before the Second World
    War had even ended. The trial of Kaing, by contrast, took place 35
    years after the horrors of the Killing Fields began. The presumed
    prosecutor of "crimes against humanity" is us, "humanity." But even
    in the nonsensical legal system of international law, the underlying
    principle of justice for the murder of millions means nothing if it is
    not uniformly applied. So, while the "judges" at Nuremberg were trying
    the devilish Nazi leaders, why were the Soviet judges themselves not
    also on trial? The Soviet government had been, in practice, an ally
    of the Nazis from August 1939 to June 1941. The Soviets gave Rudolph
    Hess a guided tour of the Gulag and helped teach the Nazis how to
    run a system of concentration camps. The Soviet government by 1939
    had murdered as many innocent Soviet citizens as Nazis murdered in
    the Holocaust.

    When the Soviet Union fell, why were there no Nuremberg Trials? Mao
    Tse Tung may well have murdered more people than anyone in history. If
    it is possible for the human imagination and conscience to grasp
    this ugly fact, Mao may have been even more inhuman and even more
    sociopathic in his murders than Hitler or Stalin. Has the Communist
    Party of China or that nation's government ever proposed trials for
    the flacks of Mao who committee megacide? No, there has not even been
    a hint of justice for these victims.

    Third, selective prosecution of savage and murderous regimes that lose
    wars or which are overthrown in revolution ensures that injustice,
    not justice, will prevail. When Roosevelt, for example, demanded
    "unconditional surrender," the impact, as we now know, crippled those
    honorable and decent Germans who were appalled by the evil of Nazism
    and by its mass murder of millions of Jews, Poles, Russians, Gypsies
    and other innocent victims of Nazi malice.

    What should be done to prevent the unspeakable horrors of the
    Holocaust, the Gulag, and the Killing Fields? Individuals should
    speak out when the men, women, and children are being killed and
    records of the outrages should be made and disseminated (like Armin
    Wegener did with the Armenian genocide -- Wegener, by the way,
    spoke out very early against Stalinism and then against Nazism,
    for which he paid a price.) Governments can express disapproval,
    deny diplomatic recognition, and so forth -- America, to its great
    credit, acted alone and without pressure to help Jews in Europe and
    Asia even when America was a very young nation. The governments of
    nations in which genocide and other diabolical evil has occurred --
    such as those that occurred under Communism, Nazism, or any similar
    totalitarian system -- should undertake, under their own laws,
    justice and remedial action. If the governments of nations that devour
    their own are not willing to do that -- and the failure to prosecute
    communist murderers in Russia and in China are glaring examples --
    then how can anyone say that justice is being done?

    Historically speaking, the only true protection against evil has
    been trust in God and following His will. This is not politically
    correct, but it is historical fact. The cure for the Killing Fields,
    the Holocaust, and the Gulag is the restoration of the morally serious
    faith of Christians and of Jews.




    From: A. Papazian
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