当時、クメールルージュに約200万人のカンボジア人が死んだ。
今頃、なんでクメールルージュの裁判なんだろう？
Khmer Rouge trial
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2011/11/111116_vwitn_whales.shtmlSummary
21 November 2011
The trial of the three most senior surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge has begun in Cambodia. A UN-backed tribunal has charged Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary and Khieu Samphan with crimes against humanity and genocide.
Around two million Cambodians died because of forced labour, starvation and murder when the Khmer Rouge governed the country in the late 1970s.
クメールルージュの生き残っている３人の最高幹部指導者らの裁判がカンボジアで始まっている。 国連支持の裁判所はNuon Chea、Ieng Sary及びKhieu Samphanに人道に対する罪及びジェノサイドを宣告した。
クメールルージュが１９７０年代後半にこの国を支配していた時、２百万人余りのカンボジア人が強制労働、飢え及び殺戮で亡くなった。
Vocabulary
in the making
being prepared
appetite
desire
(to bring) to justice
to arrest (the Khmer Rouge leaders) for crimes committed and put them on trial in a court of law
amnesties 特赦
official pardons, particularly for crimes committed
wrangling
arguing angrily over a long period of time
(to get) off the ground
to get going, to start
agonisingly
painfully or extremely (slow)
forced evacuation
the moving of people against their will
right hand man 右腕、片腕
indispensible deputy, worked very closely with
a mystery
an unexplained event
＜爺追加＞
■tribunal： courtとの違いは何だ？=>参考を見つけた http://www.cttt.nsw.gov.au/Resources/Students/Courts_vs_tribunals.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribunal
■crime against humanity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimes_against_humanity
■genoside
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide
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Report
This trial has been more than three decades in the making. Vietnamese-backed forces removed the Khmer Rouge from power in 1979. But for a long time there was no appetite to bring the organisation's leaders tojustice.
International politics allowed the Khmer Rouge to hold Cambodia's seat at the United Nations in the 1980s. And in the 90s a series of amnesties brought its members into positions in the government and military. So it took much wrangling to get the Khmer Rouge Tribunal off the ground. It finally started work almost six years ago, and progress has been agonisingly slow, with only one conviction so far.
Crimes included the forced evacuation of towns and cities; turning their inhabitants into slave labourers in the rice fields; and the torture and murder of anyone considered an enemy of the revolution.
The Khmer Rouge leader, Pol Pot, died in 1998. But his right hand man Nuon Chea is on trial alongside Khieu Samphan, the former head of state, and the former foreign minister, Ieng Sary. If they talk Cambodians may get some explanations at last, but if they stay silent the madness of the Khmer Rouge era may remain a mystery