The fake leg of Ta Mok

Again, read the followings.

(http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060803-125325-1749r)

Rebel leader's fake leg to go on display

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- The artificial leg worn by a deceased Khmer Rouge military commander will be put on public display in Cambodia by his family.

Ta Mok, who was known as "The Butcher" by the ultra-Maoists during the civil war, died last month at the age of 82 before he could be tried for crimes against humanity.

His lawyer, Benson Samay, said Ta Mok had instructed him to keep his leg to take to court if the trial came up after his death, a correspondent for The Telegraph reported.

But Ta Mok's family demanded it back so it could become part of a propaganda museum, and the lawyer agreed to hand it over this week, the report said. The family was reportedly repairing and decorating it for display with other relics of the war that killed an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians.

Ta Mok lost his own leg in fighting in 1975.

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The problem is, whether there will be people who want to see a fake leg of a butcher.

I cannot understand how inhuman this guy was and how he could do this. I could hardly imagine how people respect this leg.

It is really annoying... and also very sad as well.