02/07/2006
The judges for the UN backed tribunal into the crimes of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge are ready to be sworn in.
The joint UN-Cambodian tribunal will prosecute the regime's surviving leaders 27 years after the fall of their regime.
Cambodia first asked the United Nations for help in forming a tribunal in 1997, but the talks stumbled for years over the financing and jurisdiction of the court.
An agreement on the trials finally came in 2003, with Cambodia and the UN settling on a joint tribunal that will place 17 Cambodian and 13 foreign judges on the bench.
Most of the judges will be sworn in Monday, but some of the foreign jurists are being held in reserve and will not attend the ceremony.
The Khmer Rouge is held responsible for the deaths of up to two million Cambodians in its four-year reign of terror.
The joint UN-Cambodian tribunal will prosecute the regime's surviving leaders 27 years after the fall of their regime.
Cambodia first asked the United Nations for help in forming a tribunal in 1997, but the talks stumbled for years over the financing and jurisdiction of the court.
An agreement on the trials finally came in 2003, with Cambodia and the UN settling on a joint tribunal that will place 17 Cambodian and 13 foreign judges on the bench.
Most of the judges will be sworn in Monday, but some of the foreign jurists are being held in reserve and will not attend the ceremony.
The Khmer Rouge is held responsible for the deaths of up to two million Cambodians in its four-year reign of terror.
1 comment:
premature..it's that ready..and it not easy..why..? b/c these regime is ran by the outsiders..these countries are, China, Cambodia, and vietnam,, if it this trail is start in the next coming year for sure..just the fake one,,,they just prosecute ONLY the small individaul in jail right now only, that's it..does not mean they prosecute the crime against humanity in Cambodia as a whole...eeoyre!
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