Post by Admin on Feb 12, 2015 13:25:56 GMT 1
BY HOLLY ROBERTSON | FEBRUARY 12, 2015
Forty years after Elizabeth Becker was granted an audience with murderous Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot during the secretive Democratic Kampuchea regime, the American journalist on Wednesday faced questions from his second-in-command.
Nuon Chea, or “Brother Number Two,” who is being tried at the Khmer Rouge tribunal for crimes against humanity and genocide along with fellow regime leader Khieu Samphan, put two questions to Ms. Becker at the start of her third day as an expert witness at the trial.
He first asked the former Washington Post correspondent to explain why the U.S. government dropped about 3 million tons of bombs on Cambodia during the early 1970s, killing many innocent people and destroying homes, rice fields and pagodas.
Ms. Becker said the U.S. government’s reason was its support for Lon Nol’s administration. Of the intense bombing campaign in 1973, she added: “That was the result of the fear at that stage of, one, that the Khmer Republic would lose, and two, the belief by then the administration of Richard Nixon that by bombing, the Khmer Rouge would come to the negotiation table.”
Asked, secondly, whether she was of the opinion that the U.S. government was solely responsible for the tragedy its bombings inflicted on Cambodian people, Ms. Becker replied: “Of course.”
www.cambodiadaily.com/news/nuon-chea-breaks-silence-in-court-to-question-veteran-journalist-77828/
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Allein die USA waren Schuld, sagte die Washington Post Korrespondentin, die vor 40 Jahren Pol Pot interviewt hatte.
Haben aber nichts daraus gelernt...
Die gesamten Hearings sind alle auf YT verfügbar:
www.eccc.gov.kh/en/case-002-02/hearings/trial-day-18
Da hat die BRD-Justiz aber noch erheblichen Demokratisierungsbedarf... Wortprotokolle gibt es in Kambodscha auch...
Forty years after Elizabeth Becker was granted an audience with murderous Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot during the secretive Democratic Kampuchea regime, the American journalist on Wednesday faced questions from his second-in-command.
Nuon Chea, or “Brother Number Two,” who is being tried at the Khmer Rouge tribunal for crimes against humanity and genocide along with fellow regime leader Khieu Samphan, put two questions to Ms. Becker at the start of her third day as an expert witness at the trial.
He first asked the former Washington Post correspondent to explain why the U.S. government dropped about 3 million tons of bombs on Cambodia during the early 1970s, killing many innocent people and destroying homes, rice fields and pagodas.
Ms. Becker said the U.S. government’s reason was its support for Lon Nol’s administration. Of the intense bombing campaign in 1973, she added: “That was the result of the fear at that stage of, one, that the Khmer Republic would lose, and two, the belief by then the administration of Richard Nixon that by bombing, the Khmer Rouge would come to the negotiation table.”
Asked, secondly, whether she was of the opinion that the U.S. government was solely responsible for the tragedy its bombings inflicted on Cambodian people, Ms. Becker replied: “Of course.”
www.cambodiadaily.com/news/nuon-chea-breaks-silence-in-court-to-question-veteran-journalist-77828/
_________________
Allein die USA waren Schuld, sagte die Washington Post Korrespondentin, die vor 40 Jahren Pol Pot interviewt hatte.
Haben aber nichts daraus gelernt...
Die gesamten Hearings sind alle auf YT verfügbar:
www.eccc.gov.kh/en/case-002-02/hearings/trial-day-18
Da hat die BRD-Justiz aber noch erheblichen Demokratisierungsbedarf... Wortprotokolle gibt es in Kambodscha auch...