Heng Reaksmey, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
07 September 2007
Former king Norodom Sihanouk has told the Khmer Rouge tribunal he has nothing to say to the judges, following the declination of an invitation to the palace by tribunal officials.
In hand-written notes on a tribunal letter addressed to him, Sihanouk swore on the "Five Supreme Monks" he had nothing to add to the tribunal's investigations of Khmer Rouge leaders.
He scribbled his message underneath an official letter of from Michelle Lee, which declined an earlier invitation for a meeting, and circulated the letter with his notes.
Sihanouk said he had already talked as much about the Khmer Rouge period as he planned, and would not speak further, not even to judges.
International tribunal jurists this week declined an invitation by the king to meet him Saturday, claiming there was no judicial protocol for them to do so.
Sihanouk positioned himself at the head of a coalition that included the Cambodian communists, who would come to be known as the Khmer Rouge, in the early 1970s, following his ouster by a US-supported coup.
In hand-written notes on a tribunal letter addressed to him, Sihanouk swore on the "Five Supreme Monks" he had nothing to add to the tribunal's investigations of Khmer Rouge leaders.
He scribbled his message underneath an official letter of from Michelle Lee, which declined an earlier invitation for a meeting, and circulated the letter with his notes.
Sihanouk said he had already talked as much about the Khmer Rouge period as he planned, and would not speak further, not even to judges.
International tribunal jurists this week declined an invitation by the king to meet him Saturday, claiming there was no judicial protocol for them to do so.
Sihanouk positioned himself at the head of a coalition that included the Cambodian communists, who would come to be known as the Khmer Rouge, in the early 1970s, following his ouster by a US-supported coup.
5 comments:
When he was young, his political view was not mature. Therefore he has full of revenge and full of cruel activities against those who have not liseten to him. Now he feel shame to have assciated with Khmer rouge. Refusing to cross-examination in front of the judge was not to lower himself. He mmust understand that one of the judge a former Head of State of New Zealand. But his refusal will prove that he was really a great killer.
BUT YOU HAD AND HAVE MOTIVE!
WHO WERE NOT AGAINST LON NOL WERE GUILTY, HOW ABOUT YOU WAS NOT AGAINST POL POT?
This foolish man needs more pills to rid his psychotic and paranoia.
This is how Khmer empire dwidled down to where it is.
King Seihaknouk admitted his guilt from his documentations,his big mouth, and refused to go and talk in court this former king he is guilty of created bloodbath in genocide of Cambodia with cause his citizen to lost their lives more than two million start from 1969 to 1979, please the world do not let this guy go it won't be any justice to more than two million soul and all Cambodian people.
May justice have been served in Cambodia!
All true Khmer compatriots, ladies and gentlemen,
Cambodia has cancers that were embedded into her by China+YUONS+Vietminh-CPP-Hun Sen+all royal crooks through traitor Sihanouk's flesh and blood, also through his YUON wife Monique and Sihanouk’s clique.
To have true and lasting peace for Cambodia these cancers have to be removed once and for all, either by the law of ECCC-KRT or by any means, as long as the majority of true Khmers agree with it.
If these cancers remain inside Cambodia, without proper treatment, YUONS will continue to swallow us bit by bit every day and China will gobble the whole region without mercy toward Cambodian land and all Khmer people. They will achieve this with the continued assistance of NORODOM SIHANOUK and HUN SEN.
KULEN MONOROM
(the rice farmer's son)
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