PHNOM PENH (AFP) — Cambodia's UN-backed genocide tribunal is mounting a media blitz to urge more Khmer Rouge victims to participate in the upcoming trial of the regime's prison chief, a court spokeswoman said Tuesday.
The court on Monday set February 17 as the start date for the long-awaited trial of Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, the first leader of the regime to face trial for atrocities committed in the 1970s.
It gave victims until February 2 to come forward and will use the media to "inform victims all over the country if they wish to participate as civil parties that they have two more weeks," spokeswoman Helen Jarvis told AFP.
"We will be making arrangements to put notices in the newspapers, radio spots and we hope also to make announcements on TV. We want to give them (victims) every chance to participate," she said.
Duch is accused of overseeing the torture and extermination of more than 12,000 men, women and children when he headed Tuol Sleng prison, known as S-21, during the Khmer Rouge's 1975-1979 rule.
But so far only 28 people have been officially recognised as civil parties to Duch's trial, and about 70 more applications are still being processed, Jarvis said.
The inclusion of Khmer Rouge victims who can tell their stories in proceedings is intended to make for inclusive trials that bring a measure of healing to Cambodia.
So far less than 3,000 people have filed complaints against the former regime leaders.
Duch is one of five Khmer Rouge chiefs who have been detained by the court for their alleged roles in the regime.
A mathematics teacher who became the Khmer Rouge's torturer-in-chief, Duch has been in prison since 1999 for his role at Tuol Sleng. He was formally transferred to the tribunal and indicted in July 2007.
Up to two million people were executed or died of starvation and overwork as the Khmer Rouge dismantled modern Cambodian society during its rule in a bid to forge a communist utopia.
The court on Monday set February 17 as the start date for the long-awaited trial of Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, the first leader of the regime to face trial for atrocities committed in the 1970s.
It gave victims until February 2 to come forward and will use the media to "inform victims all over the country if they wish to participate as civil parties that they have two more weeks," spokeswoman Helen Jarvis told AFP.
"We will be making arrangements to put notices in the newspapers, radio spots and we hope also to make announcements on TV. We want to give them (victims) every chance to participate," she said.
Duch is accused of overseeing the torture and extermination of more than 12,000 men, women and children when he headed Tuol Sleng prison, known as S-21, during the Khmer Rouge's 1975-1979 rule.
But so far only 28 people have been officially recognised as civil parties to Duch's trial, and about 70 more applications are still being processed, Jarvis said.
The inclusion of Khmer Rouge victims who can tell their stories in proceedings is intended to make for inclusive trials that bring a measure of healing to Cambodia.
So far less than 3,000 people have filed complaints against the former regime leaders.
Duch is one of five Khmer Rouge chiefs who have been detained by the court for their alleged roles in the regime.
A mathematics teacher who became the Khmer Rouge's torturer-in-chief, Duch has been in prison since 1999 for his role at Tuol Sleng. He was formally transferred to the tribunal and indicted in July 2007.
Up to two million people were executed or died of starvation and overwork as the Khmer Rouge dismantled modern Cambodian society during its rule in a bid to forge a communist utopia.
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Administration of justice at the United Nations
Report of the Redesign Panel on the United Nations
system of administration of justice
Summary
The Redesign Panel on the United Nations system of administration of justice
was established by the Secretary-General in January 2006 pursuant to resolution
59/283, in which the General Assembly requested him to establish a panel of
external, independent experts to review and possibly redesign the system of
administration of justice at the United Nations. The present report, containing the
findings and recommendations of the Redesign Panel, is submitted in fulfilment of
the terms of reference stipulated for it by the Assembly.
The Redesign Panel found that the United Nations internal justice system is
outmoded, dysfunctional and ineffective and that it lacks independence. The
financial, reputational and other costs to the Organization of the present system are
enormous, and a new, redesigned system of internal justice will be far more effective
than an attempt to improve the current system.
Effective reform of the United Nations cannot happen without an efficient,
independent and well-resourced internal justice system that will safeguard the rights
of staff members and ensure the effective accountability of managers and staff
members.
The Redesign Panel recommends a decentralized, streamlined and ultimately
cost-efficient system of internal justice for the United Nations. This new system will
be professional and independent and, if well-resourced, will both reduce conflicts
within the Organization through more effective informal dispute resolution and
ensure the expeditious disposal of cases in the formal justice system. The objective
of decentralization is to ensure that staff members serving in field operations, who
constitute the majority of staff, are effectively covered by the internal justice system.
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The Office of the Ombudsman should be strengthened and decentralized with a
merger of the existing Offices of Ombudsmen in the Secretariat and funds and
programmes. The Office should have professional mediators and should take on a
stronger monitoring role regarding institutional management. The Joint Appeals
Boards and the Joint Disciplinary Committees should be replaced with a new,
decentralized United Nations Dispute Tribunal presided over by independent,
professional judges with power to issue binding decisions. The United Nations
Administrative Tribunal should become a mainly appellate court for the internal
justice system. Legal representation for staff members should be professionalized
and decentralized.
The Redesign Panel recommends the establishment of the proposed new justice
system by a resolution of the General Assembly, further recommends the
establishment of an Office of the Administration of Justice in the United Nations to
manage this important aspect of the work of the Organization and to ensure the
independence of the proposed new internal justice system and, finally, proposes that
the new system, if approved by the General Assembly, become operational on 1.1.2008
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