Mass Killings and Responsibility in a Terror State


	Mass Killings and Responsibility in a Terror State

Gul Agha

3-10-2009 3:26 PM

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kampuchea, human rights, genocide, obedience, psychology

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/053f8e83-859c-4a9b-868e-a5059fe762ee/098AAC78-AD62-481F-B6C7-C1ECCBB3CCEE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/world/asia/10cambodia.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss#" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/world/asia/10cambodia.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss#" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/world/asia/10cambodia.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss#"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/8838A907-4533-4D57-976F-5520B18E2F88" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/world/asia/10cambodia.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss#"><P>ANLONG SAN, <A title="More news and information about Cambodia." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/cambodia/index.html?inline=nyt-geo">Cambodia</A> — “We were victims, too,” said Him Huy, the head of the guard detail at the Tuol Sleng torture house, who took part in the executions of thousands of people at a <A title="More articles about Khmer Rouge" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/k/khmer_rouge/index.html?inline=nyt-org">Khmer Rouge</A> killing field.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/world/asia/10cambodia.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss#"><P> As the prisoners knelt at the edges of mass graves with their hands tied behind them, executioners swung iron bars at the backs of their heads, twice if necessary, before they toppled forward into the pits.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/world/asia/10cambodia.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss#"><P> “I had no choice,” Mr. Him Huy, 53, said. “If I hadn’t killed them, I would have been killed myself.”</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/world/asia/10cambodia.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss#">Mr. Him Huy said: “I’m not a bad person. 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