Not all people who do wrong pay the price for their crimes.
Once recent example is Ta Mok of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, known as "The Butcher".
Ta Mok was directly responsible for the death of tens of thousands of people.
Upon his death, hundreds showed up to pay respect for a man who was responsible for many atrocities.
The Khmer Rouge regime was responsible for at least a million deaths, and countless other horrors from dislocating the population and evacuation of the cities.
If one thinks about Pol Pot himself, responsible for countless deaths, he was spared what should have been his deserved, a long humiliating trial followed by the death penalty.
If one thinks of a more brutal dictator, Joseph Stalin, and his cruel policies, such as the Great Purge, one wonders why he got a state funeral, and reverence.
Many a dictator escapes punishment for their crimes.
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Khalid
Nuon Chea arrested and to be tried
Wed, 2007/09/19 - 11:15Although Pol Pot was not tried for the atrocities he cause, his second hand man, Nuon Chea, known as Brother number two, has been arrested to be tried.
Something is better than nothing.
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Khalid Baheyeldin
Anonymous (not verified)
u can add Osama and
Sun, 2008/02/17 - 22:36u can add Osama and Al-Bashir in the list.....
Khalid
Not yet
Sun, 2008/02/17 - 22:44They are not dead yet. Look at how Saddam's last few years were. It is not over for them just yet.
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Khalid Baheyeldin
Graham (not verified)
Agreed. Neither those who do
Mon, 2023/12/04 - 15:16Agreed. Neither those who do wrong nor those who do right receive their just deserts. Not in this life. If we embrace the idea that God is love and that His justice is unimpeded by the acts of Mankind, then we must trust that our wrongs will be "paid for" (I have no other word) in the next life.
If we don't believe in the hereafter, the question is less "Where is the justice for those like Pol Pot?" and more "Why are there not more people like Pol Pot?"
God's injunction is to love as you would be loved. The devil's is to love yourself and disregard others. If, in the afterlife, this is swapped around - if God loves you as you loved Him, and the devil disregards you as you disregarded others - would this not make perfect balance?
Perhaps there are not so very many Pol Pots because we somehow acknowledge this. Maybe.