Thursday, February 07, 2008

Public participation at Nuon Chea's bail appeal hearing

Cambodian police officers watch a line of people as they wait outside the court room during a hearing Thursday, Feb. 7, 2008, at the U.N.-back genocide tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. A former Khmer Rouge leader detained by Cambodia's U.N.-backed genocide tribunal Thursday pressed for an appeal for his release on bail, this time with the help of a foreign lawyer who was earlier barred from representing him. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
Cambodians wait to attend the UN-backed genocide tribunal of Nuon Chea, Pol Pot's right hand man from the Khmer Rouge, during his second public appearance at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) in Phnom Penh February 7, 2008. Nuon Chea appeared before Cambodia's "Killing Fields" tribunal on Thursday to request bail, arguing he was not a flight risk and would not try to influence potential witnesses. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea
Cambodian Muslims wait to attend the UN-backed genocide tribunal of Nuon Chea, Pol Pot's right hand man from the Khmer Rouge, during his second public appearance at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) in Phnom Penh February 7, 2008. Nuon Chea appeared before Cambodia's "Killing Fields" tribunal on Thursday to request bail, arguing he was not a flight risk and would not try to influence potential witnesses. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea
Cambodian people wait outside the court room during a hearing Thursday, Feb. 7, 2008, at the U.N.-back genocide tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. A former Khmer Rouge leader detained by Cambodia's U.N.-backed genocide tribunal Thursday pressed for an appeal for his release on bail, this time with the help of a foreign lawyer who was earlier barred from representing him. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
A Cambodian man, center, shows his ID card before he gets into the court room during a hearing Thursday, Feb. 7, 2008, at the U.N.-back genocide tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. A former Khmer Rouge leader detained by Cambodia's U.N.-backed genocide tribunal Thursday pressed for an appeal for his release on bail, this time with the help of a foreign lawyer who was earlier barred from representing him.
(AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
Chum Mey, one of the few survivors who was imprisoned at Tuol Sleng prison by the Khmer Rouge talks outside the court room during a hearing Thursday, Feb. 7, 2008, at the U.N.-back genocide tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. A former Khmer Rouge leader detained by Cambodia's U.N.-backed genocide tribunal Thursday pressed for an appeal for his release on bail, this time with the help of a foreign lawyer who was earlier barred from representing him. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

just testing..

Anonymous said...

I salute you "Pou Chum Mey" - being brave to confront your bitter past and leaders of the regime which not many of us are brave enough to do and move on with life.