{"id":725,"date":"2007-11-21T20:19:01","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T19:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=725"},"modified":"2007-11-21T20:19:01","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T19:19:01","slug":"slow-justice-in-cambodia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=725","title":{"rendered":"Slow justice in Cambodia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the mid 1980s, I saw the film &#8220;The Killing Fields&#8221; which graphically depicted the Khmer Rouge&#8217;s reign of terror in Cambodia in which 1.7 million people died, nearly a quarter of the population.  A couple of years ago,  in Siem Reap I visited one of the many killing fields and found it a moving experience which I have described <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Indochina.html#SR\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nThis week, the UN-backed genocide tribunal in Cambodia staged its first historic hearing. Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, the head of the brutal regime&#8217;s notorious Toul Sleng torture centre, appeared before the panel of five judges on Phnom Penh&#8217;s outskirts, accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. You can read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/international\/story\/0,,2214297,00.html\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nThis is good news for the people of Cambodia but <b>it is almost 30 years after the end of slaughter<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the mid 1980s, I saw the film &#8220;The Killing Fields&#8221; which graphically depicted the Khmer Rouge&#8217;s reign of terror in Cambodia in which 1.7 million people died, nearly a quarter of the population. A couple of years ago, in Siem Reap I visited one of the many killing fields and found it a moving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}