BANGKOK — After 16 arduous years, a particular tribunal in Phnom Penh handed down a remaining verdict this month to a genocidal nonagenarian, defying the previous authorized maxim “justice delayed is justice denied.”
The holocaust perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge’s Democratic Kampuchea (DK) regime after the autumn of Indochina to communist forces in April 1975 was halted by Vietnam’s invasion of Cambodia in late 1978. But it surely was not till 2006 that the crimes had been introduced earlier than a world courtroom. That adopted years of wrangling between the United Nations and the federal government of Prime Minister Hun Sen.
