According to wire-service reports on Dec. 29, former Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan now regrets his leading role in Pol Pot's genocidal Communist regime that murdered two million Cambodians in the late 1970s. "Yes -- sorry, sorry, sorry, I am very sorry," Samphan told reporters. Another top aide to Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, added: "Actually we are very sorry, not just for the lives of people, but also for the lives of animals that suffered in the war."
Reporters pressed Samphan on the question of personal responsibility: "Please," he said. "Leave this to history. This is an old story." Or as Americans say nowadays, can't we put this behind us? Isn't it time to move on?