AFP
PHNOM PENH: Judges at Cambodia's Khmer Rouge tribunal will meet from May 31 hoping to resolve a long-running dispute over rules that has delayed the start of genocide trials, a spokesman said on Wednesday.
The two-week meeting of foreign and Cambodian jurists has been deadlocked for months over internal tribunal regulations, threatening to derail attempts to prosecute one of the 20th century's worst atrocities.
"We fully expect on June 13 ... that we will be announcing the adoption of the internal rules," tribunal spokesman Peter Foster told AFP.
Up to two million people died of starvation and overwork, or were executed, during the communist Khmer Rouge's 1975-79 rule over Cambodia.
The regime abolished religion, schools and currency, exiling millions onto vast collective farms with the aim of creating an agrarian utopia.
Rights groups and legal advocates have called for swift trials amid concern that ageing Khmer Rouge leaders will die before being brought to justice.
So far only one possible defendant is in custody, while several live freely in Cambodia.
The only other person to have been arrested for crimes committed during the regime, military commander Ta Mok, died in prison last July.
Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot died in 1998.
The first trials of former Khmer Rouge leaders have been initially expected this year after nearly a decade of negotiations and setbacks.
However, the repeated delays mean trials are unlikely to start before early 2008, officials say.
"Once the internal rules are adopted, the judicial investigation can start in the following weeks," co-investigating judge Marcel Lemonde said.
The two-week meeting of foreign and Cambodian jurists has been deadlocked for months over internal tribunal regulations, threatening to derail attempts to prosecute one of the 20th century's worst atrocities.
"We fully expect on June 13 ... that we will be announcing the adoption of the internal rules," tribunal spokesman Peter Foster told AFP.
Up to two million people died of starvation and overwork, or were executed, during the communist Khmer Rouge's 1975-79 rule over Cambodia.
The regime abolished religion, schools and currency, exiling millions onto vast collective farms with the aim of creating an agrarian utopia.
Rights groups and legal advocates have called for swift trials amid concern that ageing Khmer Rouge leaders will die before being brought to justice.
So far only one possible defendant is in custody, while several live freely in Cambodia.
The only other person to have been arrested for crimes committed during the regime, military commander Ta Mok, died in prison last July.
Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot died in 1998.
The first trials of former Khmer Rouge leaders have been initially expected this year after nearly a decade of negotiations and setbacks.
However, the repeated delays mean trials are unlikely to start before early 2008, officials say.
"Once the internal rules are adopted, the judicial investigation can start in the following weeks," co-investigating judge Marcel Lemonde said.
4 comments:
listen all your dumb crackhead.
i didn't sign that treaty or order to block krt, it was ah chor yuon who did it on their own and put the blame on me. I am ah hun kvak how can i see or know how to read?
i wanted to run away but ah chor yuon threated to kill me and my family members. what can I do if each time i am forced to talk. ah hok lundee is yuan and how many times he slept with mi j'rouk my wife? all the time. it hurts me so bad to see mee j'rouk did with ah chor yuon Hok in front of my face. :( :(
Dude, you are gone beyond any
repair.
To 12:32AM
I am second to that! AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave is in for life! It doesn't matter which way he tries to escape the Vietcong's grip and he will die like a dog! By the way, all AH HUN SEN parents live in Vietname in a big mansion! I am not going to worry because his parent will join him at the end of his miserable Vietcong life!
Well, if you can't beat them, join
them.
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