By Stéphanie Gée Ka-set
Translated from French by Tola Ek
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Donor countries will meet this Friday 20 June in New York to review the additional funds request for the ECCC (Khmer Rouge Tribunal). A first budget, set at $114 million, was submitted in January to the donors and it was rejected. Since them, a committee was set up to review for the lowering of this budget, the final amount of which was not announced to the public by the ECCC. At mid-day on Friday, the ECCC invited the news media to a press conference to be held on Tuesday 24 June to announce the results of this meeting and to provide the current status of the ECCC’s budget.
Since the appeal was launched by the ECCC to seek additional funds, Australia (which provided $458,000), France ($1 million) and Japan ($3 million) have already provided their offer.
Several members of the civil society (NGOs currently involved in the support of the tribunal through various information distribution activities, encouragement for the victims’ participation in the process and observation of the tribunal work) launched an appeal, in a communiqué, to donor countries to provide the budget amount requested by the ECCC “so that they have all the chances to fulfill their mission of bringing to the people of Cambodia a sense of justice, and an example of just and independent trials.” “The engagement of the international community to continue to finance the ECCC is absolutely vital to fight the impunity and to restore the rule of law in Cambodia,” the communiqué concluded.
These representatives of the civil society reminded about the “significant progress” made by the tribunal, with the charge brought up against 5 former KR leaders and others to come – as Judge Robert Petit indicated – as well as the acceptance by the tribunal of 11 groups of civil parties, and the reception of 1,300 complaints from the KR victims. They also cited the recent survey performed by the National Democratic Institute (NDI), which indicated that “close to 80% of the Cambodian people know about the existence of the tribunal and its mission,” a proof that this tribunal matters for the Cambodian people, the communiqué added.
Since the appeal was launched by the ECCC to seek additional funds, Australia (which provided $458,000), France ($1 million) and Japan ($3 million) have already provided their offer.
Several members of the civil society (NGOs currently involved in the support of the tribunal through various information distribution activities, encouragement for the victims’ participation in the process and observation of the tribunal work) launched an appeal, in a communiqué, to donor countries to provide the budget amount requested by the ECCC “so that they have all the chances to fulfill their mission of bringing to the people of Cambodia a sense of justice, and an example of just and independent trials.” “The engagement of the international community to continue to finance the ECCC is absolutely vital to fight the impunity and to restore the rule of law in Cambodia,” the communiqué concluded.
These representatives of the civil society reminded about the “significant progress” made by the tribunal, with the charge brought up against 5 former KR leaders and others to come – as Judge Robert Petit indicated – as well as the acceptance by the tribunal of 11 groups of civil parties, and the reception of 1,300 complaints from the KR victims. They also cited the recent survey performed by the National Democratic Institute (NDI), which indicated that “close to 80% of the Cambodian people know about the existence of the tribunal and its mission,” a proof that this tribunal matters for the Cambodian people, the communiqué added.
5 comments:
Go to hell, if their is no justice in the present, who care about pass justice?
Shame on you UN!!!!
It's just to create jobs for the members of lawyers and others who are hungry to see these multimillion dollars that's about it. Hun Sen is in a full control and he will not let Hor Nam Hong his buddy to stand trial, you will see. Most Khmers' killers are in this government.
After all this is theirs call [UN and international community who failed to see the sufferings of Khmer people under the rule of KR but opted to preserved the UN seat for KR], they should wake up and commit to finance the KR trial and make sure that justice is served for those millions plus innocent lives.
We had sentenced the KR murderers already, and who changed it?
Stop supporting the KRT. you have only made all the judges getting rich. #5,000.00/month taxe free.
Set those criminals free and leave their fate to the victim's offspring to decide.
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