By Prak Chan Thul
THE CAMBODIA DAILY
The Cambodian and international judges and prosecutors for the long-awaited Khmer Rouge tribunal will be sworn in at the Royal Palace Monday, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia announced Thursday.
The ceremony, to be presided over at 4 pm by a UN representative and Minister of the Royal Palace Kong Sam O1, will take place after 10 of the 12 international judicial staff members arrive in Cambodia over the weekend.
The judicial officials will tour the tribunal premises on Monday, and spend the next four days at a workshop dealing with judicial strategies, team-building and decision-making, the ECCC said. They will also meet with local NGOs involved with the tribunal.
Silvia Cartwright, a past governor general of New Zealand and a trial chamber judge, and Sri Lanka's Chandra Nihal Jayasinghe, a Supreme Court chamber judge, will not attend the ceremony as they will not yet have arrived in Cambodia, tribunal spokesman Reach Sambath said. He declined to say where the international officials would be staying, though a staff member at Phnom Penh's Hotel Le Royal said rooms were being prepared for them there.
Reserve co-Prosecutor Chuon Sun Leng, who is among the 17 Cambodian judicial officials, said he felt confident about the fast-approaching tribunal.
"It's going to be no problem because there are international judges and prosecutors ready to help us," he said.
The ceremony, to be presided over at 4 pm by a UN representative and Minister of the Royal Palace Kong Sam O1, will take place after 10 of the 12 international judicial staff members arrive in Cambodia over the weekend.
The judicial officials will tour the tribunal premises on Monday, and spend the next four days at a workshop dealing with judicial strategies, team-building and decision-making, the ECCC said. They will also meet with local NGOs involved with the tribunal.
Silvia Cartwright, a past governor general of New Zealand and a trial chamber judge, and Sri Lanka's Chandra Nihal Jayasinghe, a Supreme Court chamber judge, will not attend the ceremony as they will not yet have arrived in Cambodia, tribunal spokesman Reach Sambath said. He declined to say where the international officials would be staying, though a staff member at Phnom Penh's Hotel Le Royal said rooms were being prepared for them there.
Reserve co-Prosecutor Chuon Sun Leng, who is among the 17 Cambodian judicial officials, said he felt confident about the fast-approaching tribunal.
"It's going to be no problem because there are international judges and prosecutors ready to help us," he said.
1 comment:
get sworn right now ,,so you all can register to the payroll..b/c some of the judges out of work for long time..yeaaaahh..
we are on the payroll now..let go to the VIP room...i get the money ..i got the money..!!
Do you think couple of these khmer rouge leaders worth 55 million dollars?..just wasted...these can't even worth 25 cents!!..i can't beleive how khmers just stand and watch the money float away from the poorest country in the world,,,that we've never heard in the history of khmer..very shame.....eeyore!
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