Ta Mok, Khmer Rouge military chief and genocidal maniac, died of natural causes in a hospital in Phnom Penh at the age of eighty two-- leaving the international tribunal charged with trying his crimes and which dithered away for years with nothing to show for itself.
This is another prime example why the current fascination with the fiction known as "international law" is morally bankrupt. Within a year, two mass murderers have made a travesty of justice by running out the clock and dying in bed rather than on the gallows. At least we have the consolation of knowing that Ta Mok has finally gone to face a judge that he cannot hope to evade.
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