Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Surviving Khmer Rouge Leader Implicated in 1.7 Million Deaths Caught

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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