Friday, May 15, 2009
Robert Carmichael
ABC Radio Australia
The Cambodia government has announced it's investigating foreign court staff at the Khmer Rouge tribunal for corruption.
It comes after a long-running dispute with the United Nations over corruption allegations on the Cambodian side of the court.
The Cambodian government and the United Nations have had a difficult relationship in setting up and running the Khmer Rouge tribunal.
The relationship between the two partners worsened this week after a government spokesman said Phnom Penh had collated files on all foreign United Nations staff and was monitoring them for corruption.
It has caused an outcry with one foreign lawyer describing the move as "childish and thuggish".
The government back-pedalled a little on Thursday, saying it wasn't actually monitoring foreign staffers, just investigating claims that some had committed unnamed "misdeeds".
The United Nations has said those claims should be handed over to it for investigation.
It comes after a long-running dispute with the United Nations over corruption allegations on the Cambodian side of the court.
The Cambodian government and the United Nations have had a difficult relationship in setting up and running the Khmer Rouge tribunal.
The relationship between the two partners worsened this week after a government spokesman said Phnom Penh had collated files on all foreign United Nations staff and was monitoring them for corruption.
It has caused an outcry with one foreign lawyer describing the move as "childish and thuggish".
The government back-pedalled a little on Thursday, saying it wasn't actually monitoring foreign staffers, just investigating claims that some had committed unnamed "misdeeds".
The United Nations has said those claims should be handed over to it for investigation.
3 comments:
Let the Cambodian government do the investigation. Then you will have the clue or know what cambodian stafts exactly do. Because they are expert in doing bad things. UN have to Learn from Cambodian to know how to do bad bad things. Then you will khnow how to catch the thiefs.
Low class Khmer judges who do not know what exactly the law is. In stead of plead guilty, they in turn accuse the UN for corruption. These animals are practicing a jungle law with the UN. Very shameful to be Khmer judges and sit along side with the foreigner judge. They don't feel embarrass to what they have done. No brain in their head.
That the trick the evil North Vietname did , the Khmer Rouge did, and The CPP of ah Hun Xen did!
Why UN so blind can not see! We are living in a modern slavery! FOOL!
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