Ieng Sary has passed

[minionofmidas]

About time. How else was he going to avoid a life sentence?

[minionofmidas]

No link to an article - or anything at all, really - about who this person was?

Hardly necessary on a politics forum, I would think.

Maybe I would feel the need to explain if I were throwing around random names of American sports or television personages.

[minionofmidas]

About time. How else was he going to avoid a life sentence?

The Khmer Rouge Tribunal has not been exactly efficient. One sentence in six years is rather pitiful, considering the scale of crimes against humanity that were committed.

And now they have only two ongoing trials left. They're probably hoping for Samphan and Chea to follow Sary's lead.

(Nerdesque Note: Yes, this follows naming convention for Cambodian. As everywhere in Eastern Asia the second name is the personal name - but when using only one name, in Cambodia you use the personal name not the family name. Hah.)

[minionofmidas]

Thank you, Vosem (!) for answering my query politely and without making me feel stupid.

This should tell you something about who is at fault here.