How far down the chain of command should prosecutions go?
I think that’s a decision for Cambodians to make. The questions should be: Should [the prosecutions] be limited to KR criminals, or how about criminals from the Lon Nol regime, or later, but those are decisions the Cambodians need to make. You can make a case for an internationally run trial, but as I said, it would be absolutely farcical if it was restricted to Cambodians. The records say that the US wanted to “use anything that flies against anything that moves” [during the bombing of Cambodia], which led to five times the bombing that was reported before, greater than all bombing in all theatres of WWII, which helped create the Khmer Rouge. So to try to excuse their crimes from the broader picture may be sensible for Cambodians who are trying to find some internal justice and reconciliation, but for the broader picture, it’s simply farcical. So you think US leaders should be tried in connection with the DK regime? Not just in the context of the DK regime – that’s afterwards. I think
