The court functions not only to return verdicts but also to try to give some measure of peace and resolution to victims and to Cambodian society as a whole. SQ 7. What led to the Cambodian genocide? What human rights Inside Rwanda, all Tutsis and Hutu who had not pledged their support to the president and his party were labelled accomplices and traitors. At the time of the genocide, there were three primary ethnic groups in Rwanda: the Tutsi (15%) and the Hutu (84%), the Twa (1%). The Cambodian Genocide was the murder of between 1,500,000 and 3,000,000 Cambodians by the Khmer Rouge (the popular name for the Communist Party of Kampuchea [CPK]), between 1975 and 1979. Genocide In addition to this, 22 people were executed in 1998 for the genocide, and 10,000 people were tried by the conventional domestic legal system. WebThe Cambodian Genocide Program has obtained and scanned more than 10,000 photographic images pertaining to various aspects of gross human rights violations Eventually, the Khmer Rouge side seized the advantage in the conflict, after gaining control of increasing amounts of territory in the Cambodian countryside. The following day more than 20,000 inhabitants of the city fled north to the UN peacekeepers base in Potocari to escape the incoming Serb forces. As a result of this treatment, tensions between the native population and the ruling Germans continued to rise. The trial was seen as being mostly for show, however, and the former dictator died while under house arrest in jungle home. . . Cambodia Other than Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, only one other trial has been completed, of Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch, the chairman of the Khmer Rouge S-21 Security Office in Phnom Penh known as Tuol Sleng. Bosnian Serbs The SLA was soon joined by another group known as the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM). However, in the following days, the group was tracked and split up at several points along the journey by Serb forces, who killed those that they captured. The movement killed thousands of its own as suspected traitors and spies for foreign powers. Share this via Email To learn more about the genocide, visit the website of The Genocide Archive of Rwanda. In 1979, following the Khmer Rouges defeat at the hands of Vietnamese forces, Pol Pot, the movements de facto leader, fled into the jungles on Cambodias border with Thailand where he maintained the pretense of leading a legitimate government. The Khmer Rouge created 189 prisons, which were de facto execution centres. catalyst Russia launches pre-dawn missile attack on Ukraine, Air strikes pound Sudan capital as truce extended, MasterChef Australia host Jock Zonfrillo dies. An exhumed mass grave in Cambodia yields skeletons of the executed. In total, by 1917, at least 664,000 and up to 1.2 million Armenians been massacred.