By Paul TigheNov. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Nuon Chea, the most senior surviving leader of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge movement, is fit to face trial on charges of crimes against humanity, the tribunal said.
The 82-year-old former leader underwent a medical examination after he complained of problems related to high blood pressure, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia said in a statement on its Web site yesterday.
``These examinations concluded that he is in a stable condition,'' the tribunal said. ``There is no medical reason which would run counter to his detention conditions or participation in the judicial investigation.''
Nuon Chea, who was charged Sept. 19 by the United Nations- backed court in the capital, Phnom Penh, said he was never in a position to order the deaths that occurred under the rule of the Khmer Rouge movement between 1975 and 1979. An estimated 1.7 million people died during the movement's years in power.
Nuon Chea ``retains perfectly satisfactory intellectual autonomy for his age,'' according to the statement. He will undergo medical examinations two or three times a year, it said.
Between five and 10 Khmer Rouge leaders may be brought to trial by the tribunal. The regime drove people out of cities to work at forced-labor collective farms as it attempted to impose a communist agrarian state in the Southeast Asian country.
Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge leader, died in his jungle hideout in 1998. Ta Mok, the group's military chief, died in July 2006. He was held in a military prison after his capture in 1999.
First Session
The UN court had its inaugural session in June and issued its first charges in July, accusing the movement's former prison chief, Kang Kek Ieu, known as Duch, of crimes against humanity.
Nuon Chea said when he was charged in September that he would be ``ashamed to have committed such crimes,'' according to the Web site of the Extraordinary Chambers.
The trial process, which may begin next year, is costing $56.3 million, with the UN providing $43 million and Cambodia's government $13.3 million.
Vietnamese forces ended the rule of the Khmer Rouge when they captured Phnom Penh in January 1979. Khmer Rouge fighters resisted in the west of the country until their final units surrendered to the Cambodian army 20 years later.
To contact the reporter on this story: Paul Tighe in Sydney at
ptighe@bloomberg.net
The 82-year-old former leader underwent a medical examination after he complained of problems related to high blood pressure, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia said in a statement on its Web site yesterday.
``These examinations concluded that he is in a stable condition,'' the tribunal said. ``There is no medical reason which would run counter to his detention conditions or participation in the judicial investigation.''
Nuon Chea, who was charged Sept. 19 by the United Nations- backed court in the capital, Phnom Penh, said he was never in a position to order the deaths that occurred under the rule of the Khmer Rouge movement between 1975 and 1979. An estimated 1.7 million people died during the movement's years in power.
Nuon Chea ``retains perfectly satisfactory intellectual autonomy for his age,'' according to the statement. He will undergo medical examinations two or three times a year, it said.
Between five and 10 Khmer Rouge leaders may be brought to trial by the tribunal. The regime drove people out of cities to work at forced-labor collective farms as it attempted to impose a communist agrarian state in the Southeast Asian country.
Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge leader, died in his jungle hideout in 1998. Ta Mok, the group's military chief, died in July 2006. He was held in a military prison after his capture in 1999.
First Session
The UN court had its inaugural session in June and issued its first charges in July, accusing the movement's former prison chief, Kang Kek Ieu, known as Duch, of crimes against humanity.
Nuon Chea said when he was charged in September that he would be ``ashamed to have committed such crimes,'' according to the Web site of the Extraordinary Chambers.
The trial process, which may begin next year, is costing $56.3 million, with the UN providing $43 million and Cambodia's government $13.3 million.
Vietnamese forces ended the rule of the Khmer Rouge when they captured Phnom Penh in January 1979. Khmer Rouge fighters resisted in the west of the country until their final units surrendered to the Cambodian army 20 years later.
To contact the reporter on this story: Paul Tighe in Sydney at
ptighe@bloomberg.net
2 comments:
I don't agree with Nuon Chea fit to face trial. I believe he will died in the trial or the trial will be constantly interrupted by his high blood pressure reacting to every question that put him in the spot.
Nuon Chea or Camarade Rat Samoeun said:
Camarade Hor Nam Hong, Keat Chhun, Soc Anh, Hun Sen, Heng Samrin, Chea Sim and much more, are the members of Khmer Vietminh (Ah Kbal yuon Khluon Khmer) or Ah khmer-Yuon formed 1951 and 1954 that's the real Hanoi servants.
They Must be summoned by the KRT and they will be arrested as Duch and Nuon Chea.
Otherwise, KRT conducting unfair trail or bias of political partism.
They are all Khmer Rouge, to be fair.(si kuy teav tieng oss khnea ouy 2-3 neak chenh loy mdech kert?)
Ta Mok, quietly told some people before he died, saying Soc Anh is yuon srok Kirivong since vietminh control the area in 1968. Whom now Hun Sen's Master mind.
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