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Thirty years after the "Killing Fields"

In quel dimenticato angolo di mondo che è la Cambogia, è giunto, forse, il momento di fare i conti con la storia. Una storia tragica. Quella raccontata, a suo tempo, da un film bello e angosciante come "Urla del silenzio" (di Roland Joffé). In inglese il titolo del film era " The Killing Fields". Vi si narrava, appunto, la tragedia dei "campi della morte" della Cambogia di Pol Pot, nei quali perì in cattività un numero enorme (1.700.000, CALCULATED second accredited) persons.
domain The nightmare of the Khmer Rouge ended January 7, 1979, with the invasion (made, of course, not for humanitarian reasons, but providential) of Cambodia by Vietnam.
thirty years have passed. Pol Pot, meanwhile, died in 1998 without having paid for his sins. On the cambodian people for years and serious historical silence of repression, the impunity of torturers indecency and moral failure to pay compensation to victims.
complications, silences, international conveniences, so far, none of the perpetrators had been tried. Now, is brought to the bar "Duch" (Kaing Guecho Eav), head of the prison "S21", where they were tortured and died, 17,000 people. And four other suspects are "hierarchical" Ieng Sary, Ieng Tirith, Khieu Samphan, Nuon Chea.
not much, but symbolically it is the presence of an important step.
With three decades of delay, a process of reconciliation and truth-operation "with the victims" (similar to that implemented in South Africa 's former apartheid) are now put on the agenda .