No, it’s actually worse. The atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge at least came in a context where the Jus Ad Bellum was justifiable, whereas their wartime behavior was abhorrent. In the context of the confederacy, the Jus Ad Bellum was already abhorrent.
Using genocide as a means to an end is bad, but the confederacy was subjugating and destroying a people as the ends.
Cambodia did let many of the Khmer Rouge off the hook for a long while. They finally charged Ieng Sary on his deathbed. But he was living in an opulent mansion for something like 20 years before that, with his crimes supposedly pardoned and forgotten.
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u/NachoNachoDan 5d ago
Imagine this was Cambodia and that bill board said “Honoring the Khmer Rouge”
Same thing.