So Socheat (Foreground, left), Khieu Samphan's wife, is seen walking into the Calmette Hospital to visit her husband in November 2007 (Photo: AP)16 March 2008
By Sok Serey
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Heng Soy
On Sunday, the wife of the former president of the KR regime requested that the ECCC or the KR Tribunal (KRT) speeds up the hearing in her husband’s case, and she also asked for thorough investigation before any sentencing is handed down to Khieu Samphan. She claimed that Khieu Samphan was a clean and gentle man, quite the opposite to the accusation made by the tribunal against him.
56-year-old So Socheat told RFA on Sunday: “Why did they incarcerate him for so long because others had their judgments or their hearings for the sentencing, why I don’t see anything (for him)? The court must investigate thoroughly in order to provide proper justice as to whether my husband’s involvement in ordering someone to kill others. It must be clear to his (Khieu Samphan) satisfaction, and to my satisfaction.”
In reaction to the demand and the call made by Khieu Samphan’s wife, Reach Sambath, KRT spokesman, explained: “The tribunal is speeding up its work. On the 20th (of March), we will issue the decision for Nuon Chea who asked for bail release. The following month (i.e. April), the other 3 people who asked for bail release also, they include Mr. Ieng Sary, Mrs. Ieng Thirith, and Mr. Khieu Samphan, (their cases) will follow afterward. At the tribunal, we are working with all our ability to fulfill our duty according to the law.”
On Sunday, there was no immediate comment given by Mr. Say Bory, the co-defense lawyers of Khieu Samphan regarding his defendant because someone else answered his phone and said that he was busy.
The 77-year-old Khieu Samphan was the former (2nd) president of the KR regime, and he was arrested at the Calmette Hospital in Phnom Penh by the Cambodian authority based on a warrant issued by the KRT on 19 November 2007. He was officially charged by the KRT co-investigating judges of crime against humanity and war crimes.
The KRT has already issued its decision to continue the incarceration of Kaing Kech Iev, aka Duch, the former Tuol Sleng prison (or S-21) director. On 20 March, the KRT will issue its decision on the bail relaease appeal by Nuon Chea, the former president of the National Assembly of the KR regime.
A source indicated that the ECCC plans to hold successive hearings in the appeal made by the group of former KR leaders, such as Kheiu Samphan, Ieng Sary, and Ieng Thirith, Ieng Sary’s wife.
56-year-old So Socheat told RFA on Sunday: “Why did they incarcerate him for so long because others had their judgments or their hearings for the sentencing, why I don’t see anything (for him)? The court must investigate thoroughly in order to provide proper justice as to whether my husband’s involvement in ordering someone to kill others. It must be clear to his (Khieu Samphan) satisfaction, and to my satisfaction.”
In reaction to the demand and the call made by Khieu Samphan’s wife, Reach Sambath, KRT spokesman, explained: “The tribunal is speeding up its work. On the 20th (of March), we will issue the decision for Nuon Chea who asked for bail release. The following month (i.e. April), the other 3 people who asked for bail release also, they include Mr. Ieng Sary, Mrs. Ieng Thirith, and Mr. Khieu Samphan, (their cases) will follow afterward. At the tribunal, we are working with all our ability to fulfill our duty according to the law.”
On Sunday, there was no immediate comment given by Mr. Say Bory, the co-defense lawyers of Khieu Samphan regarding his defendant because someone else answered his phone and said that he was busy.
The 77-year-old Khieu Samphan was the former (2nd) president of the KR regime, and he was arrested at the Calmette Hospital in Phnom Penh by the Cambodian authority based on a warrant issued by the KRT on 19 November 2007. He was officially charged by the KRT co-investigating judges of crime against humanity and war crimes.
The KRT has already issued its decision to continue the incarceration of Kaing Kech Iev, aka Duch, the former Tuol Sleng prison (or S-21) director. On 20 March, the KRT will issue its decision on the bail relaease appeal by Nuon Chea, the former president of the National Assembly of the KR regime.
A source indicated that the ECCC plans to hold successive hearings in the appeal made by the group of former KR leaders, such as Kheiu Samphan, Ieng Sary, and Ieng Thirith, Ieng Sary’s wife.
3 comments:
Hey ! woman...Do you believe the court will set your murderous husband free after he has done to the poors soul of 1.7 millions ?
dude, its not KS. court should go after Hanoi!
clean or not, when khiev sampan failed to stop the atrocity in cambodia in time or failed to say anything at the time is tantamounted to actually committing the same crime. oh, too bad. let cambodian people judge them for their stupid, backward, stone age, revolutionary vision. too late, die in a milliion hells! people like them do not deserve to live!
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