to that statement yes we are starting to this one because we had time liquids exceed disrupt an economy. bridge. the truck please report starts nov seventeenth on d w. you re watching t w news i m terry martin coming up in the next fifteen minutes the japanese man who fell in love with a hall of brawl so much that he proposed the story of modern law and the virtual foul ups later in the program. but first the trial in cambodia and what s being called the country s norm back moment for the first time former senior officials of the brutal regime have been convicted of genocide perpetrated
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witness how important would you say the burdick is today. oh it s critical i can imagine cambodian history or this is siding without this trial and without the final verdict that said yes this was genocide as you noted it when it s been forty years it took decades to finally get this trial because it could have been penned just on so many world powers so that cambodians no longer have to worry that that what they went through was their imagination there were many deniers and. it just it s it is a it s brings to a really important conclusion the saga and the sense that yes there is justice now you were in cambodia in the nineteen seventies during the reign of terror that s why you were called to as a mature as
also because their critics are saying this should go further that there should be more than more than these two or three people who were convicted of crimes against humanity during that time but cambodian prime minister who has been in power for thirty years and who is a former member of the khmer rouge himself he strongly opposes that he says that would destabilize the country and since he wields almost unlimited power in cambodia it s very unlikely that we re going to see more trials go ahead terry. thank you so much that was our correspondent there talking to us from bangkok. and we ll have more on the historic ruling in cambodia later in the show we ll also be talking to a witness in that trial. now german chancellor going to acol is visiting tenets today three months after a fatal knife attack provoked days of farai protests and counter-demonstrations in
against two ethnic minority groups the defendants no one show. some are already serving life sentences for other crimes against humanity the verdict from a un backed war tribe you know comes almost forty years after the fall of the camero rumors around two million cambodians died from overwork starvation and mass executions under the group s reign of terror during the late nineteen seventies. well for more we re joined from washington by award winning journalist lisbeth becker who was a reporter in cambodia during the camero rouges reign of terror her book when the war was over is one of the leading dog leading accounts of what was one of the last century s worst crimes against humanity. elizabeth thank you so much for joining us here now you testified understand the genocide trial as an expert