51. He observed a staged show trial in July and interviewed him in October. 52. He spoke at a Khmer Rouge base in northern Cambodia, where he has been under house arrest by his ex-comrades following a show trial for betrayal. 53. In his final appeal to jurors, Ramirez called the eight days of proceedings a political show trial. 54. Its officers killed and tortured to death dozens of innocent people or forced others to fabricate evidence against prominent independence activists put on show trials. 55. Last month, they held a show trial of their notorious leader Pol Pot, which Hun Sen and other observers dismissed as a charade. 56. Nhek Bunchhay and fellow commander Serey Kosal were convicted of treason by the Phnom Penh military court in a March show trial. 57. On Friday, the sick, aging revolutionary was judged by his former comrades in a show trial and sentenced to life imprisonment. 58. Ramirez made a final four-hour appeal to the jury, calling the proceedings a political show trial. 59. Seeking international sympathy, his former colleagues distanced themselves from Pol Pot and his genocidal policies by sentencing him to life imprisonment in a show trial in July. 60. Serey Kosal and top resistance commander Nhek Bunchhay were convicted for treason in a show trial in March, but were given full pardons under the recent coalition deal. |
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