French judge Marcel Lemonde represents foreign judges in talks over tribunal rules. (Photo: Reuters)09/03/2007
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Khmer Rouge tribunal judges are meeting this week in an attempt to iron out procedural differences in Cambodia's genocide trials, in what some officials see as the last chance to bring former regime leaders to justice.
Co-investigating judge Marcel Lemonde, who is representing the international jurists in the meeting, is refusing to rule out the possibility that the 14 foreign judges may collectively resign from the tribunal.
But Australian Justice Rowan Downing, one of the tribunal's UN-appointed judges, has told Radio Australia that the judges are not ready to walk away.
"The importance of these trials, I don't think can be underestimated for the people of Cambodia," he told Claudette Werden on the Connect Asia program.
"I can assure you the international judges will do everything possible to save the situation if it gets to a point where it looks as though it would otherwise collapse."
"By the same token there are some matters concerning international practice and human rights where we cannot and will not compromise."
One of the key divisions among judges has been the role of international defence counsel, with Cambodia's Bar Association - concerned that their cases may be commandeered - seeking a $US2,000 registration fee to be imposed on all international lawyers.
Co-investigating judge Marcel Lemonde, who is representing the international jurists in the meeting, is refusing to rule out the possibility that the 14 foreign judges may collectively resign from the tribunal.
But Australian Justice Rowan Downing, one of the tribunal's UN-appointed judges, has told Radio Australia that the judges are not ready to walk away.
"The importance of these trials, I don't think can be underestimated for the people of Cambodia," he told Claudette Werden on the Connect Asia program.
"I can assure you the international judges will do everything possible to save the situation if it gets to a point where it looks as though it would otherwise collapse."
"By the same token there are some matters concerning international practice and human rights where we cannot and will not compromise."
One of the key divisions among judges has been the role of international defence counsel, with Cambodia's Bar Association - concerned that their cases may be commandeered - seeking a $US2,000 registration fee to be imposed on all international lawyers.
7 comments:
We must stand up for justice for all. It is time that we should allow any monky to bully us.
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Yes, we must stand up for justice for all. If international judges walk away, ah Hun Xen will be free for nothing. And i hope it is the international court otherwise it will be injustice.
3:38PM, you did it again..it's .aspx and not .apsx . Hope you're not Dyslexia or something...lolz j/k). Good luck!
Your Honor Marcel Lemonde,
Please don't let those criminials get away!
>KHMENG WAT KNONG SROK >said "Pratically, Madam
>DY POK (mother of Hun Sen)
>dead in the ending year 1997 >after physically and morally >violence by Hun Sen."
Are you saying Hun Sen's violent behavior caused his mother to die or Hun Sen directly killed his own mother?
What about present Government they are commetting crime right now!
Ok you will help find mu justice after i dead, Thank to your block head UN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When Cambodians see that only a few old men they never heard of during the time they suffered under the Khmer Rouge are the only ones who are going to be prosecuted, while the killers they saw everyday and continue to see living free will die free men and women, then the awful truth of how they have been manipulated by this farce will descend upon the country. So congratulations Mr. Downing!
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