Cambodian judge You Bun Leng (L) replies to journalists questions as International judge Marcel Lemonde (R) listens during a press conference at Khmer Rouge tribunal's courthouse, in Phnom Penh 13 June 2007. Cambodia's Khmer Rouge tribunal could run out of money in early 2008, more than a year before the proceedings are scheduled to wrap up, officials said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Tang Chhin Sothy)Cambodia's Khmer Rouge tribunal running out of money
PHNOM PENH (AFP) - Cambodia's Khmer Rouge tribunal could run out of money in early 2008, more than a year before the proceedings are scheduled to wrap up, officials said Wednesday.
Efforts to prosecute those who carried out one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century were currently funded through next April, tribunal spokeswoman Helen Jarvis told AFP.
But she also said several new initiatives such as the creation of a victim protection unit will have "quite significant budgetary implications."
"Of course there is concern -- we know we need these funds to do the job properly," she said, but added: "I don't think there's any sense of panic."
The joint UN-Cambodian tribunal has been continually beset by budget problems, starting with the Cambodian government's failure to shoulder most of its share of the costs.
The three-year tribunal is budgeted at 56.3 million dollars, of which Cambodia agreed to pay roughly 13 million dollars.
But the government has since said it cannot meet the payments, forcing tribunal officials to scramble for donors.
Jarvis said an appeal was likely later this year after future cost estimates are tallied.
"There is a continuing request for more funds," she said. "We have not mounted a major appeal but expect to do so ... when projections are clearer."
Tribunal officials have repeatedly complained that the tight budget was one of the biggest obstacles to the trials, which have suffered numerous delays since Cambodia first approached the United Nations a decade ago for help in prosecuting former Khmer Rouge leaders.
Up to two million people died of starvation and overwork, or were executed during the communist regime's 1975-1979 rule.
The Khmer Rouge abolished religion, schools and currency, exiling millions to vast collective farms with the aim of creating an agrarian utopia.
So far only one possible defendant is in custody -- former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Khek Iev, also known as Duch -- while several live freely in Cambodia.
Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot died in 1998.
Efforts to prosecute those who carried out one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century were currently funded through next April, tribunal spokeswoman Helen Jarvis told AFP.
But she also said several new initiatives such as the creation of a victim protection unit will have "quite significant budgetary implications."
"Of course there is concern -- we know we need these funds to do the job properly," she said, but added: "I don't think there's any sense of panic."
The joint UN-Cambodian tribunal has been continually beset by budget problems, starting with the Cambodian government's failure to shoulder most of its share of the costs.
The three-year tribunal is budgeted at 56.3 million dollars, of which Cambodia agreed to pay roughly 13 million dollars.
But the government has since said it cannot meet the payments, forcing tribunal officials to scramble for donors.
Jarvis said an appeal was likely later this year after future cost estimates are tallied.
"There is a continuing request for more funds," she said. "We have not mounted a major appeal but expect to do so ... when projections are clearer."
Tribunal officials have repeatedly complained that the tight budget was one of the biggest obstacles to the trials, which have suffered numerous delays since Cambodia first approached the United Nations a decade ago for help in prosecuting former Khmer Rouge leaders.
Up to two million people died of starvation and overwork, or were executed during the communist regime's 1975-1979 rule.
The Khmer Rouge abolished religion, schools and currency, exiling millions to vast collective farms with the aim of creating an agrarian utopia.
So far only one possible defendant is in custody -- former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Khek Iev, also known as Duch -- while several live freely in Cambodia.
Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot died in 1998.
4 comments:
Yuon secret agents/spies will kill all Khmer Rouge leaders/cadres to erase concrete evidences they've kept with them in heart hearts.
ECCC is full of Yuon/Yavana spies/secret agents.
Khmer Sralanh Khmer!
How many obstacles we have to overcom to see this court run!!
This is bullshit. IF the UN court let this system run with YOUN agents and spies will all fucked. We need true justice otherwise this thing will haunt us and revenge, killing, mistrust each other till we disappear like CHAMPA. Come on HUN SEN and your Crooks don't serve the YOUN interest. You only have one life to live and just sacrafice it to KHMER only. If you do that we all will remember you as JAYAVARAMAN VII. Do it HUN SEN. All KHMER will respect you more than KING>. Just do it for the purpose of KHMER+KHMER KROM. It is not too late. DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just believe me folks! There will be no Khmer Rouge trial at all for Khmer victims. Ah Hun Kwak See Pee Pee are just playing Shit with the donors. My question is this, why wait for two decades to punish those animals slaughters?
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