Cambodian security guards walk along a street in front of the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh. Cambodia's ruling party has expressed confidence that the upcoming Khmer Rouge tribunal would be successful in providing justice to victims of the genocidal regime.Cambodian's ruling party confident in Khmer Rouge tribunal
Wednesday • June 28, 2006
Cambodia's ruling party has expressed confidence that the upcoming Khmer Rouge tribunal would be successful in providing justice to victims of the genocidal regime.
Chea Sim, head of the ruling People's Party, said the tribunal was moving ahead smoothly with Cambodian and international judges and prosecutors set to be sworn in on Monday.
"We believe that this tribunal will be a successful response to the wishes of Cambodians and all people around the world who love peace and justice," Chea Sim told hundreds of supporters at the party's 55th anniversary bash.
Up to two million people were killed by the ultra-Maoist Khmer Rouge regime, which ruled Cambodia from 1975-1979.
Cambodia and the United Nations agreed in 2003 to the joint tribunal of 12 foreign and 17 Cambodian jurists after years of talks at which Prime Minister Hun Sen's government was accused of trying to derail the prosecutions.
Donors are funding most of the 56.3-million-dollar process. The trial phase of the tribunal is likely to come in mid-2007, officials say.
No one has been prosecuted for the crimes committed during the Khmer Rouge's rule, and regime leader Pol Pot died in 1998.
Only two aging former cadres have so far been detained. Military commander Ta Mok and Duch, who headed the regime's main torture center at Tuol Sleng prison in the Cambodian capital, were both arrested in 1999. — AFP
Chea Sim, head of the ruling People's Party, said the tribunal was moving ahead smoothly with Cambodian and international judges and prosecutors set to be sworn in on Monday.
"We believe that this tribunal will be a successful response to the wishes of Cambodians and all people around the world who love peace and justice," Chea Sim told hundreds of supporters at the party's 55th anniversary bash.
Up to two million people were killed by the ultra-Maoist Khmer Rouge regime, which ruled Cambodia from 1975-1979.
Cambodia and the United Nations agreed in 2003 to the joint tribunal of 12 foreign and 17 Cambodian jurists after years of talks at which Prime Minister Hun Sen's government was accused of trying to derail the prosecutions.
Donors are funding most of the 56.3-million-dollar process. The trial phase of the tribunal is likely to come in mid-2007, officials say.
No one has been prosecuted for the crimes committed during the Khmer Rouge's rule, and regime leader Pol Pot died in 1998.
Only two aging former cadres have so far been detained. Military commander Ta Mok and Duch, who headed the regime's main torture center at Tuol Sleng prison in the Cambodian capital, were both arrested in 1999. — AFP
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That the evil communist party of Cambodia and it run Cambodia now under communist Vietnam and China.
Please free us from those evil by help reform the Cambodia Royall Police. the evil hand (Cambodia Royal police) is not serve people but kill and suppress people and serve criminal and drug , human, and other trafickers.
You all know that World Leaders!!!!
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