Ieng Thirith meets her Maker

Ieng Thirith meets her Maker

(Story, image Phnom Penh Post)

I, as the first civil party in international law, was in the same court room with Ieng Thirith as suspect in the ECCC as often as my schedule permitted.

Ieng Thirith was a Shakepearean scholar at the Sorbonne, and I remember the Lady did protesteth too much.

Ieng Thirith, as the First Lady of the Khmer Rouge (wife to Ieng Sary, sister to Pol Pot's first wife Khieu Ponnary who went mad earlier on in the revolution) died eluding justice as we know it when the ECCC (or, what I called Eccc the Clown) deemed her unfit due to dementia in 2012.

But I as a Christian I take comfort in the fact--even as I shudder--that now she stands before the Almighty to face perfect justice.

- Theary C. Seng, 23 Aug. 2015