Thursday, March 05, 2009

Norng Chanphal, a surviving child of S-21, pleads to become Civil Party at Duch trial

Ta Lorng, (Kompong Speu, Cambodia), 24/02/2009. Norng Chanphal, one of the four children who survived S-21. (Photo: Vandy Rattana)

04-03-2009
By Duong Sokha, with Stéphanie Gée
Ka-set


Norng Chanphal is the last victim who submitted an application to become a civil party before the Khmer Rouge court as part of Case 1, the trial of Khmer Rouge torturer Duch. He did so on February 4th exactly, i.e. two days after the official deadline for applications and 13 days before the opening of the technical preparation hearing of the trial of S-21 director at the Trial Chamber. Introducing himself as a key-witness on the basis that he survived, as a child, the hell of the detention and torture centre, Chanphal caused a stir with his sudden show-up. Ka-set went to meet Norng Chanphal in the province of Kampong Speu.

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Anonymous said...

i don't understand why the court tend to only focus on a few selected individuals when there are overwhelming evident across cambodia e.g. the mass graves, the khmer survivors, etc who are the real witnesses that went through and lived through it all. hello, you don't have to go far to search for witnesses; most khmer people who are old enough to remember can be a witness in their own rights! thank you and god bless cambodia.

Anonymous said...

1:34AM1 you know how to write a good English! Read more about civilized of modern law court!

Can you catch all the crook in the world or you catch only the one was unlucky? and do you lat the unlucky thieves and muderers run free?

May justice reveal!

Anonymous said...

Folks,
Viet must paid this guy well!

Anonymous said...

Folks,
Viet must paid this guy well!

Anonymous said...

a child were brainwashed by the Vietnamese n now he is the key witness to the entire regime which he does not know of. Why can't they bring the actual witnesses that knew about things that are really going on. Cambodian killing Cambodian go figure out the problem and, ever wonder why the Thais and Vietnamese enjoying this blood sport so much?

Anonymous said...

8.54 am


How dumb you are ? You must have been the killer, fucker.

Anonymous said...

8;54AM.
You really understood the result of Ho Chi Minh's leap that caused human calamity in Cambodia.

Anonymous said...

8:44AM.

Yes he's paid by two Viet photographers.

Anonymous said...

You meant two Viet spies acted as photographers.