Today, on Tuesday 17 February at 9 p.m. the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) open their first trial (see the court schedule on the ECCC website). With a delay of several decades the first Khmer Rouge will be tried for his involvement in crimes against humanity committed under the Pol Pot regime, which haunted Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. The “killing fields” policy of the Khmer Rouge had the objective to create a pure peasant society and, indeed, anyone who did not look like a peasant or a military was brutally murdered. It is estimated that between…