By Chun Sakada, VOA Khmer Original report from Phnom Penh
26 November 2007
Former Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan said through his attorneys Monday the tribunal investigators had done nothing but recount his functions within Democratic Kampuchea.
The jailed leader said he was only a figurehead and did not make policy or decisions, and that the tribunal courts had not presented criminal evidence sufficient to detain him.
Youk Chhang, director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia, said Monday the courts likely had enough evidence to hold him, as investigators prepare for trial.
Khieu Samphan was charged with atrocity crimes and jailed in Phnom Penh last week, following similar arrests of two other leaders, Ieng Sary and Ieng Thirith. Along with chief ideologue Nuon Chea and prison chief Duch, five total are detained and awaiting trial.
Seng Theary, executive director of the Center for Social Development, said it was "not surprising" that Khieu Samphan was denying his role in the Khmer Rogue, but that he should not be believed.
The jailed leader said he was only a figurehead and did not make policy or decisions, and that the tribunal courts had not presented criminal evidence sufficient to detain him.
Youk Chhang, director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia, said Monday the courts likely had enough evidence to hold him, as investigators prepare for trial.
Khieu Samphan was charged with atrocity crimes and jailed in Phnom Penh last week, following similar arrests of two other leaders, Ieng Sary and Ieng Thirith. Along with chief ideologue Nuon Chea and prison chief Duch, five total are detained and awaiting trial.
Seng Theary, executive director of the Center for Social Development, said it was "not surprising" that Khieu Samphan was denying his role in the Khmer Rogue, but that he should not be believed.
7 comments:
Shut up old man. The evidence will be proven in the court and you will have a chance to prove yourself.
Khieu Samphan,
I thought the KR are the most brave people, your revolution will crush at everything. Why are you so chicken right now? You act like an innocent person because you see your own grave now. Pol Pot is anxiously waiting for you!!
"The jailed leader said he was only a figurehead and did not make policy or decisions, and that the tribunal courts had not presented criminal evidence sufficient to detain him"
Guilty or not? You are not telling us the truth. You are the policy maker, a decision-maker: You have to response for the impact and consequence.
Other thing that you should bear in mind, you have been graduated as a Ph. D. It mean that you should know about sense of responsibility. Don't be so coward!
Finally, I wish you Good night in the jail.
This whole ECCC bullshits is immoral and un-Khmer.
We should judged a snake when it's alive, not when it's dead.
A bit of curiosity: the Khmer version of the Provisional Detention Order for Khieu Samphan has not been posted on the ECCC's website yet.
Another bit of curiosity: In their respective "statement of the factual and legal situation" in their respective Provisional Detention, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary and Khieu Samphan (not Duch or Ieng Thirith) have all noted "there was a state of international armed conflict between Democratic Kampuchea and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam during all or part of the period between 17 April 1975 and 6 January 1979."
LAO Mong Hay, Hong Kong
hi Samphan,
why you like to have someone used your head???? if you were no power nor dicision maker, why you dont resign from the post at that time???? why only after you cried out?????? you think we all are no brain to think and believe in you???? idiot
Mr Khieu Samphan,
There was only one thing in your mind: blood. Even in your national anthem:
The bright red blood
Was spilled over the towns and over the plain of Kampuchea, our motherland,
The blood of our good workers and farmers and of
Our revolutionary combatants, of both men and women.
Their blood produced a great anger and the courage
To contend with heroism.
On the 17th of April, under the revolutionary banner,
Their blood freed us from the state of slavery.
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