… Published Sunday, March 7, 1999 in the San Jose Mercury News DURING the Cambodian genocide of 1975-79, about 1.7 … That war is over, and it is time for a reckoning. Several new circumstances have reopened the case. First, the Khmer … offered amnesty to Pol Pot’s ex-brother-in-law, the ex-foreign minister of the genocidal regime, Ieng Sary. This …