Friday, May 22, 2009

Duch's trial in disarray against backdrop of misunderstandings between two legal systems

20-05-2009
By Stephanie Gée
Ka-set


On this May 20th, which celebrated Hatred Day, like every year, at the Choeung Ek mass grave site, on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, the voice of expert witness Craig Etcheson was again barely heard in the Khmer Rouge Tribunal and, already, it appears that the new schedule of proceedings outlined by the judges will not be respected. Although everybody was in place at 10.30am, when the hearing was planned to resume, it was not until 11am that the president of the court came and took his seat, alone, to announce that the hearing would not resume until early afternoon. The reason: the judges did not managed to reach a decision on the requests and objections submitted to them on the previous day. A group of villagers who had come specially to attend the morning hearing had to leave without seeing anything.

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