(from CNN.com)
The Khmer Rouge, which terrorized Cambodia during the 1970s is just now possibly going to have to face trial for crimes against humanity. The terror was already history when I was born, and the leaders of it are still alive and well in Cambodia.
If the USA is supposed to be this great champion of human rights, why weren't trials conducted as soon as the Khmer Rouge was removed from power? I think that the United Nations should have stepped in. Something should have been done before now. And what about Somalia? Rowanda? Sudan? Why is it that only Europeans killed through genocide (i.e. Nazi Germany and the former Yugoslavia) have been brought to high profile trials? (This isn't quite true...Pinochet of Chile has also been brought to trial.) The number of crimes against humanity left unchallenged is unforgivable. These people excecuted children, for Christ's sake!
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