Dementia today. How about yesterday?
Ieng Tirith is suffering from dementia. The Law is the Law: she will be released and not be tried at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (only Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary and Khieu Samphan are left to be tried). Was she suffering from dementia in 1975?
See more on the Khmer Rouge tribunal here and here.
Multimedia essay ‘30 Years for a Trial‘ at Magnum in Motion…
CAMBODIA. Kambol (Phnom Penh). 24/02/2009: Ieng Tirith, born in 1932, Minister of Social Affairs during the Khmer Rouge regime, charged with crimes against Humanity, in front of her judges at the pre-trial hearing of the ECCC (Extraordinary Chambers at the Courts of Cambodia).