28 March 2008 – Co-prosecutors at the United Nations-backed tribunal trying Khmer Rouge leaders accused of mass killings and other crimes in Cambodia in the late 1970s have called for new investigations of possible crimes committed at a security and detention centre in the South-East Asian country during the notorious era.
In a formal submission to co-investigating judges on Wednesday, the co-prosecutors at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) in Phnom Penh, the capital, have requested a probe into allegations raised by civil society groups and victims.
The allegations relate to a security centre where numerous Cambodians were unlawfully detained, subjected to inhumane conditions and forced labour, tortured and executed between 1975 and 1979.
Co-prosecutor Robert Petit said that “these factual allegations, if founded, could constitute crimes against humanity, and violations of the 1956 Penal Code punishable under ECCC law and we have so alleged in our supplementary submission.”
The co-prosecutors have also requested that Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Khieu Samphan, Ieng Thirith and Kaing Guek Eav – who are all currently in the custody of the ECCC – be investigated for their involvement in these crimes.
The supplementary submission was accompanied by about 1,500 pages of analytical reports, witness statements and other documents from the era.
Under an agreement signed by the UN and Cambodia, the ECCC was set up as an independent court using a mixture of Cambodian staff and judges and foreign personnel. It is designated to try those deemed most responsible for crimes and serious violations of Cambodian and international law between 17 April 1975 and 6 January 1979.
In a formal submission to co-investigating judges on Wednesday, the co-prosecutors at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) in Phnom Penh, the capital, have requested a probe into allegations raised by civil society groups and victims.
The allegations relate to a security centre where numerous Cambodians were unlawfully detained, subjected to inhumane conditions and forced labour, tortured and executed between 1975 and 1979.
Co-prosecutor Robert Petit said that “these factual allegations, if founded, could constitute crimes against humanity, and violations of the 1956 Penal Code punishable under ECCC law and we have so alleged in our supplementary submission.”
The co-prosecutors have also requested that Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Khieu Samphan, Ieng Thirith and Kaing Guek Eav – who are all currently in the custody of the ECCC – be investigated for their involvement in these crimes.
The supplementary submission was accompanied by about 1,500 pages of analytical reports, witness statements and other documents from the era.
Under an agreement signed by the UN and Cambodia, the ECCC was set up as an independent court using a mixture of Cambodian staff and judges and foreign personnel. It is designated to try those deemed most responsible for crimes and serious violations of Cambodian and international law between 17 April 1975 and 6 January 1979.
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God damn it! In recent months, you have made inroads into a situation in which you never envisaged that you'll be in ... now, you're unable to control the situation, and then you decided to call it quit, which is not a bad idea (at all).
Moreover, we should never have bee in this quagmire. Why would you and the rest of the retarded gorillas incessantly persisted in digging the past and attempting to precipitate a chaos, since the country's political stability has been achieved. Therefore, cease and desist licking your wound, and start healing it, because we certainly do not want to find ourselves on the precipice of (yet another) civil war. The tribunal is a major drag for the country, and therefore pulling the plug is of paramount importance for the sake of Cambodia and its people.
Again, if you only have a modicum of common sense, stop fostering a problematic dichotomy between public will and political will. Cambodia must move forward!
Ah gorillas out!
yes, question them on the killing of toddlers, and young, innocent children of cambodia at that time. what did the innocent children do to deserve such abuse and killing without regard for human life, let alone, the law to protect khmer people's rights. please condemn them (KR gov't) to death of their stupid, stone age policy in cambodia at that time. god bless cambodia.
The Khmer rouge doesn't kill children because they are no threat. Where did you get the stupid story from?
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