Verdict Due in the Trial of a Khmer Rouge Figure - NYTimes.com

Verdict Due in the Trial of a Khmer Rouge Figure - NYTimes.com:

This verdict is late, coming 35 years after the atrocities by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, but good news. But one wonders if justice is ever served or ever can be served adequately when vicious dictators and their henchmen wantonly kill millions for any reason.. .ideology, a quest for power, etc.

In my view, the world never did seem to be fully outraged over this terrible tragedy. But justice of a sort will be meted out.

"The defendant, Kaing Guek Eav, commonly known as Duch, had admitted in an eight-month trial to many of the accusations against him. He oversaw a system that came to symbolize a regime responsible for the deaths of 1.7 million people from 1975 to 1979..."

“...For 30 years, the victims of the Khmer Rouge waited while a civil war raged, international actors bickered and the leaders of the Khmer Rouge walked free,” said Alex Hinton, director of the Center for the Study of Genocide, Conflict Resolution and Human Rights at Rutgers University in New Jersey. “Now, for the first time, one of them has been held accountable. The importance of this moment can’t be underestimated...” 

Kenya | More mayhem than mediation | Economist.com

Have we come to expect too much of Africa?  Given the frequent ethnic and tribal violence that grips country after country, endemic corruption, rampant AIDS/HIV, and the devastations of drought and floods,  is there any hope?

"But if there is no breakthrough, Kenya could tear apart even more drastically along ethnic lines, with Mr Kibaki's Kikuyu-dominated government controlling the wealthy centre of the country up to Nakuru, north-west of Nairobi, while Mr Odinga's Orange opposition holds sway over the west and much of the north. Most of the Kalenjin people in the Rift Valley are hostile to Kikuyu political domination.

For many Kenyans this is both an appalling and, until recent events, incredible prospect. The country's largest newspaper, the Daily Nation, which had slightly favoured Mr Kibaki during the election campaign, has lost patience with him. An editorial declared that the government's “inertia and ineptitude” were “exposing base instincts and driving the country back to pre-colonial times”. "

Kenya | More mayhem than mediation | Economist.com

American Thinker: The Left's Lust for Revolutionary Transformation

American Thinker: The Left's Lust for Revolutionary Transformation

A fascinating proposition to explain the totalitarian regimes and murderous scoundrels of the 20th and 21st centuries. Could it be true that "oppositional defiant personality disorder' is at the root of most of the world's mayhem, not to mention the radical left?

Bush Speech on Darfur Genocide

Here is a transcript of Bush's speech about the next steps the U.S. will take to halt the Darfur genocide. What better place to speak to the issue than at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. I f the world is serious about "Never Again," they and we must do more to stop this killing.

Can anyone doubt that the heart of man is evil?