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Cambodian Prayer Ceremony Remembers Khmer Rouge Victims

2011-06-27 10 Dailymotion

For more news visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.com<br />Follow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevision<br />Follow us on Facebook ☛ http://facebook.com/NTDTelevision<br /><br />Two Tuol Sleng prison survivors lead a small prayer ceremony to remember the 1.7 million people killed during the Khmer Rouge regime. It was held two days before a UN-backed court puts four of its senior leaders on trial.<br /><br />Two survivors of the Khmer Rouge regime led a prayer ceremony on Saturday to remember those who died during that brutal regime.<br /><br />This came two days before four senior Khmer Rouge leaders were to stand trial.<br /><br />Both Tuol Sleng prison survivors, Bou Meng and Chum Mei, walked up steps to the Killing Fields monument where they offered prayers and promised justice for the regime victims.<br /><br /> [Bou Meng, Tuol Sleng Prison Survivor]:<br />"Duch and the other four top leaders, I will challenge them in order to find justice for all of you who died here. May you accept my assistance to find justice for you."<br /><br />Eighty-year-old Chum Mei asked those who had passed for their assistance in ensuring the leaders stood trial.<br /><br />A United Nations-backed court on Monday will try those "most responsible" for the deaths of over one million Cambodians under the 1970s Khmer Rogue regime.<br /><br />Standing trial are "Brother Number Two" Nuon Chea, former President Khieu Samphan, ex-Foreign Minister Ieng Sary and his wife, Ieng Thirith, a former Social Affairs minister.<br /><br />They are accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity, among other charges. <br /><br />An estimated 1.7 million people died during the Khmer Rouge's 1975-1979 ultra-Maoist revolution.<br /><br />Many in Cambodia fear the four defendants, who are elderly and in poor health, will die before a verdict is delivered.

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