The trial of five aging Khmer Rouge leaders is due to begin. The charges relate to the deaths and suffering of millions of Cambodians under the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s. The autumn start date is far from certain. After almost a decade strongman Prime Minister Hun Sen and the United Nations are still wrangling about the scope of and funding for the hybrid Cambodian-UN tribunal. The approach of the 30th anniversary of the end of the regime, in Jan 2009, could function as pressure on the negotiations.
Some two-thirds of the tribunal's budgeted three-year mandate have passed since it was set up in Aug 2006, and the delays are widely seen as foot-dragging by Hun Sen, who was a member of the Khmer Rouge as a very young man.
The Khmer Rouge "liberated" Phnom Penh on 17 Apr 1975. Forcing the population out of cities, it tried to establish an agrarian state and killed an estimated 1.7 million people through starvation, disease or execution in the process. Survivors were traumatized in ways that still haunt this country
Hundreds of people have applied for official recognition as Khmer Rouge victims and to bring parallel civil cases against the five. Regime leader Pol Pot escaped justice: he died in 1998 without being brought to trial. As civil parties, the victims will have standing comparable to those of the accused, including the rights to participate in the investigation, to be represented by a lawyer, to call witnesses and to question the accused at trial.
Some two-thirds of the tribunal's budgeted three-year mandate have passed since it was set up in Aug 2006, and the delays are widely seen as foot-dragging by Hun Sen, who was a member of the Khmer Rouge as a very young man.
The Khmer Rouge "liberated" Phnom Penh on 17 Apr 1975. Forcing the population out of cities, it tried to establish an agrarian state and killed an estimated 1.7 million people through starvation, disease or execution in the process. Survivors were traumatized in ways that still haunt this country
Hundreds of people have applied for official recognition as Khmer Rouge victims and to bring parallel civil cases against the five. Regime leader Pol Pot escaped justice: he died in 1998 without being brought to trial. As civil parties, the victims will have standing comparable to those of the accused, including the rights to participate in the investigation, to be represented by a lawyer, to call witnesses and to question the accused at trial.
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Thanks for the deplay of this silly trails which could let all those bloody muderers die peacefully.
So petty to those innocence victims whom were killed by demons Kheav Samphan, Ieng Sary, Noun Chea and Pot Pol
Reaj
Y compris a chkè sihanouk
Please give us just one more years, so we can figure a way to kill these bastards, and forget about the UN-backed tribunal.
The justice is not complete as long as ah sdach moha kbot cheat ,ah sdach condom ,ah monster killer with a smiling face (sihanouk) walk free.
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Tonight at 10.00 all of the pagodas in Cambodia, monk will hit the drum to celebrate Preah Vihear temple was list in World Heritage list.
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“Cruel” Thai Army Fuels South Unrest
Mon. Jul. 7, 2008
IslamOnline.net & News Agencies
BANA, Thailand — Sixteen-year-old Muktar was walking to a local football match in the Muslim-majority south when Thai soldiers shot him in the head, kicked him into a ditch and left him to die.Three weeks later, he is now breathing through a tube in his neck.
The gunshot had entered his skull and blown away both eyes.
Two cotton pads now cover the spots his deformed face where his eyes once were, soaking up the tears which still, somehow, emerge.
“I feel so much anger towards the soldiers because I don’t know why they did this,” Muktar told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Monday, July 7.
“I want them to be shot like they shot me, and prosecuted.”
Two months after the shooting, Muktar now spends his days using his feet to navigate the floorboards in his corrugated iron-framed home, with brain damage which makes him feel disoriented and wet his bed.
His parents received only a third of the four million baht (120,000 dollars) they sought from the government. A promised apology from the soldier never came.
“If the government had more justice we would receive more care from them,” Muktar’s father Jaema said.
The southern provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat, an independent Muslim sultanate until annexed officially a century ago, have been ravaged by an armed conflict since 2004, leaving more than 2,800 people dead.
Poverty and meager economic development in the Muslim south are blamed as one of the factors fuelling the unrest.
Impunity
Experts say impunity of Thai soldiers in the Muslim south is fueling unrest and anger in the violence-ravaged region.
“Impunity has always been the root cause of this kind of alienation and anger,” said Sunai Phasuk, a researcher with Human Rights Watch.
“All that’s important for the radicalization and recruitment of insurgents.”
Before the incident, Muktar’s village of Bana had been largely safe, but the day after the shooting, insurgents burned down the local school in the village.
“Residents feel that they’ve been physically abused by the government so they suddenly turn a blind eye to whatever insurgents want to do,” Sunai said.
Outrage in the south worsened after a Muslim imam died in the custody of the Thai army in March.
According to an official autopsy, the imam’s body had nine cracked ribs, and an inquiry is underway.
Last month, another imam was shot dead as he walked between a mosque and his nearby home.
The imam’s wife Tuantimoh said her neighbors suspect soldiers shot him dead because a car was seen entering a nearby military base shortly after the shooting.
“I don’t trust the military anymore. I want more justice,” Tuantimoh told AFP. “Why don’t they try to find some suspects?”
The Thai military denies soldiers were involved, but this does little to reassure Muslim residents.
“I cannot trust the soldiers now,” one 73-year-old man in Yala told AFP.
“Sometimes they arrest good people who haven’t done anything,” added shopkeeper Asma, 22.
Experts say the conflict will continue until justice prevails in the south.
“With impunity it’s a vicious circle — people see things starting to fall into place but before you can end impunity there’s a new case. Just as trust starts to be built, it collapses.”
There's no need to bring ex-Khmer Rouge to trial, because they're gonna die of old age or natural cause anyway. It's obviously just a silly game of the government to fool the fools.
Y compris a me chkè youn khmer choy mray choy ov who chae sdech Khmers.
The justice is not complete as long as ah.me choy m'ray choy ov youn khmer kako kakay srok Khmers.
Pourk t'mil pourk t'mats want to slow progress of my country, we will fight you miserable barstards to death.
God damn whoever insult Sdech Khmer King Sihanouk.
Cheyo Prabat Norodom Sihanouk.
God bless Cambodia.
a sihanouk and you are the two barstards si ach yourn a chkè si ach sdach you will become the tru dog ...
ah.me youn 10;58pm. why don't you pause your tactic breaking up Khmer people hah? King Sihanouk won Preah Vihear, now you cmes to spoil and divide Khmers. Fuck your mama.dada okie?
ah.me youn 10;58pm. why don't you pause your tactic breaking up Khmer people hah? King Sihanouk won Preah Vihear, now you come to spoil and divide Khmers. Fuck your mama.dada okie?
you go to fuck with the sihanouk son PéDé SIHAMONI
Take Ah Sen Khvack to trial instead because on August 2009 those Khmer Rouge animals were already dead.
I go and fuck your mama and dada thresome and I will hold a gun on your head to see how I will do, ah/mee youn whore 11;27PM.
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