Vong Sokheng
The Phnom Penh Post
PRIME Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday predicted that an attempt to charge additional suspects at the Khmer Rouge tribunal would be unsuccessful.
If the push for indictments were to go forward, he said, "the result of the trial would be zero".
"All the suspects would die, and the court would run out of money," he said.
His remarks in Takeo province came one day after the tribunal announced that acting international co-prosecutor William Smith had on Monday formally requested the investigation of five more suspects. Also Monday, Hun Sen repeated in a speech at Chaktomuk Theatre his warning that further investigations risked sparking civil unrest that could claim hundreds of thousands of lives.
On Wednesday, he delivered a message to former Khmer Rouge cadres.
"I would like to appeal to the brotherhood and sisterhood of the former Khmer Rouge to remain calm," he said. "There will not be any problems happening."
Hun Sen also said his statements about the tribunal did not amount to an attempt to influence its work.
"Please go ahead with your procedures. I will not have a say, but the thing is that you need to find a supporting force ... you need four votes," he said in an apparent reference to the Pre-Trial Chamber vote that opened the door to new investigations.
In that vote, announced last week, the five-person chamber failed to resolve a disagreement between the international co-prosecutor, who pushed for more investigations, and the national co-prosecutor, who argued against them. The chamber voted 3-2 against them.
The tribunal's internal rules held that the proposed investigations would go forward in the absence of a supermajority, or 4-1 vote.
Hun Sen's statements about the court this week have drawn concerns about political interference, including from Human Rights Watch, which said Monday that judicial considerations should be based solely on evidence.
ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY AFP
If the push for indictments were to go forward, he said, "the result of the trial would be zero".
"All the suspects would die, and the court would run out of money," he said.
His remarks in Takeo province came one day after the tribunal announced that acting international co-prosecutor William Smith had on Monday formally requested the investigation of five more suspects. Also Monday, Hun Sen repeated in a speech at Chaktomuk Theatre his warning that further investigations risked sparking civil unrest that could claim hundreds of thousands of lives.
On Wednesday, he delivered a message to former Khmer Rouge cadres.
"I would like to appeal to the brotherhood and sisterhood of the former Khmer Rouge to remain calm," he said. "There will not be any problems happening."
Hun Sen also said his statements about the tribunal did not amount to an attempt to influence its work.
"Please go ahead with your procedures. I will not have a say, but the thing is that you need to find a supporting force ... you need four votes," he said in an apparent reference to the Pre-Trial Chamber vote that opened the door to new investigations.
In that vote, announced last week, the five-person chamber failed to resolve a disagreement between the international co-prosecutor, who pushed for more investigations, and the national co-prosecutor, who argued against them. The chamber voted 3-2 against them.
The tribunal's internal rules held that the proposed investigations would go forward in the absence of a supermajority, or 4-1 vote.
Hun Sen's statements about the court this week have drawn concerns about political interference, including from Human Rights Watch, which said Monday that judicial considerations should be based solely on evidence.
ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY AFP
14 comments:
What a one eyed asshole!
Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime had committed:
Tortures
Brutality
Executions
Massacres
Mass Murder
Genocide
Atrocities
Crimes Against Humanity
Starvations
Slavery
Force Labour
Overwork to Death
Human Abuses
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime had committed:
Attempted Murders
Attempted Murder on Chea Vichea
Attempted Assassinations
Attempted Assassination on Sam Rainsy
Assassinations
Assassinated Journalists
Assassinated Political Opponents
Assassinated Leader of the Free Trade Union
Executions
Executed members of FUNCINPEC Party
Murders
Murdered Chea Vichea
Murdered activists and members of Sam Rainsy Party.
Murdered Innocent Men
Murdered Innocent Women
Murdered Innocent Children
Killing innocent Khmer peoples.
Extrajudicial Execution
Grenade Attack
Terrorism
Drive by Shooting
Brutality
Tortures
Intimidations
Death Threats
Threatening
Human Abductions
Human Rights Abuses
Human Trafficking
Drugs Trafficking
Under Age Child Sex
Corruptions
Bribery
Illegal Mass Evictions
Illegal Land Grabbing
Illegal Firearms
Illegal Logging
Illegal Deforestation
Illegally use of remote detonation on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and other military officials were on board.
Illegally Sold State Properties
Illegally Remove Parliamentary Immunity of Parliament Members
Plunder National Resources
Acid Attacks
Turn Cambodia into a Lawless Country.
Oppression
Injustice
Steal Votes
Bring Foreigners from Veitnam to vote in Cambodia for Cambodian People's Party.
Use Dead people's names to vote for Cambodian People's Party.
Disqualified potential Sam Rainsy Party's voters.
Abuse the Court as a tools for CPP to send political opponents and journalists to jail.
Abuse of Power
Abuse the Laws
Abuse the National Election Committee
Abuse the National Assembly
Violate the Laws
Violate the Constitution
Violate the Paris Accords
Impunity
Unlawful Detention
Death in custody.
Under the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime, no criminals that has been committed crimes against journalists, political opponents, leader of the Free Trade Union, innocent men, women and children have ever been brought to justice.
12:08! does he has asshole on his face, Ah Hun Sen ?
Ah Kwack! Ah lop! ah Pigbrain!
Do you PhH from Hanoi teach you that only the poweless need to face justice?
And for you motherfuckers,to put you face justice it will be a fucking war?
You motherfuckers power-crazy , unjust evils will strike by lightning soo!!!!! GO TOHELL MOTHERFUCKER! Ah Kwack Hun Xen!!!
Ah Kwack! Ah lop! ah Pigbrain!
Do you PhH from Hanoi teach you that only the poweless need to face justice?
And for you motherfuckers,to put you face justice it will be a fucking war?
You motherfuckers power-crazy , unjust evils will strike by lightning soo!!!!! GO TOHELL MOTHERFUCKER! Ah Kwack Hun Xen!!!
Better to be failed, Than have a faked justice!
Don't you think so Free friends?
Faked justice = Unjustice = lier = evil = destruction of human dignity.
Do not play evil game UN!!!
Once someone rid of hun and sok an.
Curruption itself will stop automatically without anticurruption laws????
When hun sen speaking out against khmer rouge tribunal again and again. That is curruption in itself right there.
UNTAC & SiNuk made Hun to the top.
U.N must seriously face Hun lawless behavior.
K.R tribunal must find justice for the innocent victims of killing field.
This justice will be teaching a lessons to all Khmer leaders in the past and future to serve people not a few fortune corrupted clan.
1:30Am! they are the big prolem, but we need laws and hardwork too, fool!
The evils stop us from working and living as free human! May lightning strike those evil men!
Ah Kwack!
Just like when your nephews killed, raped, and robed! people! No body can bring them to justice, because they afraid your motherfucker started a war,isn't it?
No! 3:01 AM, not what you said!
Hun Sen did not have his relatives face court because he afraid that Cambodia courts would not have time left from his family crime to harash victimes of land crabing and news men!!!!!
That's funny speech!!
Khmer Helps Khmer
Hye Xen blah, blah, blah, and blah.
Hi SPAMMER 12:24 AM and 12:25 AM. FUCK YOU, YOU SON OF BTCHES FUCK YOU. LET PEOPLE READ THE ARTICLES AND LET THEM JUDGE.
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