Kaing Guek Eav aka. Duch, went on trial for genocide in Cambodia this month. He was responsible for the deaths of more than 12,000 people and the torture of many under the abominable, communist, Pol Pot regime.Now a born again Christian, he has clearly repented and is the only one of the numbers charged to have demonstrated remorse or to have confessed.
He was working for the disadvantaged and living a Christian life prior to his arrest.
Nonetheless, in a properly ordered world he should be executed for his crimes, but as this is before a UN tribunal this will not now happen.
The remarkable thing about Duch is that in modern times at least, he is the most evil man I have ever seen come to know Christ. His heavenly destination is guaranteed - and oh, how we cry out that "this is so wrong" that he might be saved when 'lesser sinners' who have not repented will not.
Christians must not question either God's wisdom in this or the fact that the power of Christ's blood for redemption can reach out to even the 'vilest of sinners'.
Christ warned us against this thinking, I believe, in the parable of 'The Workers in the Vineyard' - Matt 20: 1 - 16.
Let us rejoice that a truly wicked man has repented!
