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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Khmer Rouge Tribunal vs. Karmic Justice

Excerpt from a touching statement

When my mother — who saved me and four siblings from starvation under the Khmer Rouge in 1976 — passed away in October 2009 at the age of 73, I realized that for her justice delayed had become justice denied. (I’m embarrassed to admit it, but the words “justice delayed is justice denied” had never really sunk in until my mother’s passing.)

As an observant Buddhist, however, my mother probably had the last word. She always said that no matter what happened to the Khmer Rouge leadership in their current lifetime, Karmic justice would prevail in the next: They would be reborn as cockroaches.

Source: Sophal Ear (March 17, 2010).The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/opinion/18iht-edear.html?hp&ex=&ei=&partner

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