The pair were senior leaders of a regime responsible for the deaths of up to two million Cambodians from 1975-1979. "The long arm of international justice ultimately can prevail," David Scheffer, the UN Secretary-General's envoy to the tribunal, told reporters after the verdict. The were the Philippines, South Sudan, Sudan, the Central African Republic, Syria and North Korea. The Khmer Rouge regime dismantled modern society in Cambodia in their quest for an agrarian Marxist utopia, killing vast numbers and leaving a generational scar. But while the court has brought a handful of senior Khmer Rouge leaders to book, the vast majority of perpetrators remain unpunished.

Source: The Nation Bangkok November 23, 2016 09:52 UTC