Punaiset khmerit

Punaiset khmerit (ransk. khmers rouges, khmeriksi ខ្មែរក្រហម, khmae krɑhɑɑm) oli maolainen vallankumouksellinen liike, joka hallitsi Demokraattista Kamputseaa huhtikuusta 1975 tammikuuhun 1979. Pol Potin johtamien punakhmerien tavoitteena oli luoda maahan utopistinen agraariyhteiskunta tuhoamalla kaupunkien keskiluokka, jonka tuhkasta nousisi tulevaisuuden uusi ihminen. Tarkoitusta varten kaupungit tyhjennettiin ja väestö pakkosiirrettiin maaseudulle pakkotöihin "kuoleman kentille"^[1]. Punakhmerien hallinnon aikana yli miljoona kambodžalaista menehtyi aliravitsemukseen, sairauksiin ja summittaisiin teloituksiin^[2], mutta huomattavasti suurempiakin arvioita on esitetty^[3].

Punaisten khmerien jälkeen valtaan noussutta hallitusta on syytetty kykenemättömyydestä saada entisiä punakhmerijohtajia oikeuden eteen vastaamaan hallintonsa rikoksista. Vasta vuonna 2006 perustettiin YK:n alainen kansanmurhatuomioistuin^[4], jonka eteen haastettiin Khieu Samphan, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary ja Duch^[5]. Heistä Duch, Khieu Samphan ja Nuon Chea on tuomittu, Ieng Sary kuollut ja Ieng Thirith^selvennä vapautettu terveydentilan vuoksi.

↑ Moreorless : heroes & killers of the 20th century – Pol Pot Killer File, haettu 19.4.2007 Towns and cities are emptied and their former inhabitants are deemed "April 17th people" or "new people". The country's entire population is forced to relocate to agricultural collectives, the so-called "killing fields".
↑ BBC News 19.11.2007, haettu 19.4.2008 Under the Khmer Rouge, more than one million people died from starvation or overwork as leaders strove to create an agrarian utopia.
↑ Cambodia – Beauty and Darkness – Bruce Sharp, haettu 19.4.2008 As of this writing (April 2005), the most commonly cited estimates of the death toll fall in the range of 1.5 to 1.7 million. The frequency with which a statistic is repeated, of course, is not an indication of its accuracy. Estimates often gain superficial credibility through repetition: a figure is put forth by one source, and is repeated without citation in another article; another commentator, searching for an accurate estimate, sees the same figure cited in two separate articles, and assumes that these two accounts have corroborated each other, and can therefore be considered reliable.
↑ Judges sworn in for Khmer Rouge BBC News. 3.7.2006. Viitattu 3.8.2009.
↑ ABC News 3.4.2008, haettu 19.4.2008 Five top Khmer Rouge cadres have been arrested by the court and charged with war crimes or crimes against humanity. They are "Brother Number Two" Nuon Chea, former president Khieu Samphan, former foreign minister Ieng Sary and his wife, Ieng Thirith, and Duch, head of Phnom Penh's Tuol Sleng, or "S-21" interrogation and torture centre.

[1] Moreorless : heroes & killers of the 20th century – Pol Pot Killer File, haettu 19.4.2007 Towns and cities are emptied and their former inhabitants are deemed "April 17th people" or "new people". The country's entire population is forced to relocate to agricultural collectives, the so-called "killing fields".

[2] BBC News 19.11.2007, haettu 19.4.2008 Under the Khmer Rouge, more than one million people died from starvation or overwork as leaders strove to create an agrarian utopia.

[3] Cambodia – Beauty and Darkness – Bruce Sharp, haettu 19.4.2008 As of this writing (April 2005), the most commonly cited estimates of the death toll fall in the range of 1.5 to 1.7 million. The frequency with which a statistic is repeated, of course, is not an indication of its accuracy. Estimates often gain superficial credibility through repetition: a figure is put forth by one source, and is repeated without citation in another article; another commentator, searching for an accurate estimate, sees the same figure cited in two separate articles, and assumes that these two accounts have corroborated each other, and can therefore be considered reliable.

[bbc20060703-4] Judges sworn in for Khmer Rouge BBC News. 3.7.2006. Viitattu 3.8.2009.

[5] ABC News 3.4.2008, haettu 19.4.2008 Five top Khmer Rouge cadres have been arrested by the court and charged with war crimes or crimes against humanity. They are "Brother Number Two" Nuon Chea, former president Khieu Samphan, former foreign minister Ieng Sary and his wife, Ieng Thirith, and Duch, head of Phnom Penh's Tuol Sleng, or "S-21" interrogation and torture centre.

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