Saturday, September 29, 2007

Please cough up the money for Comrade Duch, his detention was illegal ... should we thank him for the killings also?

Duch Deserves Release, Compensation for Illegal Detention, Lawyers Argue

Sok Khemara, VOA Khmer
Original report from Washington
28 September 2007


Lawyers for the detained Khmer Rouge torture chief Duch argue he should be released and compensated for his detention, according to a legal brief released on the Khmer Rouge tribunal Web site Friday.

The lawyers, Cambodian Kar Savuth and Frenchman Francois Roux, officially filed for Duch's release from court detention in July. But the published appeal brief published offers a closer look at a tribunal process.

The lawyers for Duch, whose real name is Kaing Khek Iev, argue that their client has been held illegally since 1999, a human rights abuse.

Tribunal judges did not take his "lengthy" detention into consideration when they remanded him to tribunal court detention.

Duch—under whose watch up to 16,000 people were tortured, executed and dumped into mass graves on the outskirts of Phnom Penh—should be compensated "for the harm he has suffered as a result of the time he has spent in provisional detention," the lawyers argue in the brief.

Tribunal spokesman Reach Sambath encouraged people to submit by the first week of October relevant "friends of the court" briefs on whether Duch should be released ahead of his trial.

"I have not seen any briefs to the court on whether they support or don't support Duch's release or not," he said.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hello !!!!!
Duch has killed almost 20,000 people in tuol Sleng and many others in other places. Therefore he cannot be released at all. He is not a suspect at all. He has been recognised as a killer. Therefore, he has no right for any bail out at all. He is totally different from Bun Samnamg and Sok sam Oeurn who were still suspects because their allegation were still a suspect.

Anonymous said...

Go to hell Duch! you deserve 10 feet underground now.

Anonymous said...

Hey, it is a dirty job, but someone have to do it. It is better him than one of us. Executioners, are everywhere, why don't you get rid of them first before you pick on our own khmer people.

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