Judge Marcel Lemonde (Photo: AFP)By Kong Sothanarith, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
16 November 2009
An investigating judge at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal denied ordering investigations biased against detained former Khmer Rouge leaders.
“I have never given orders to my investigators to prioritize the gathering of inculpatory over exculpatory evidence,” said Marcel Lemonde in a statement submitted to the tribunal’s pre-trial chamber, a copy of which was obtained by VOA-Khmer on Monday.
In October, lawyers for the regime’s foreign minister, Ieng Sary, and former head of state, Khieu Samphan, accused the French co-investigating judge of being biased and asked to have him removed.
In the statement Lemonde admitted that he might have joked about it in English at an informal meeting at his home.
“He said he was just joking but it was taken seriously. But if he doesn’t know English how can he joke?” said Sar Savan, a defense lawyer for Khieu Samphan.
“I have never given orders to my investigators to prioritize the gathering of inculpatory over exculpatory evidence,” said Marcel Lemonde in a statement submitted to the tribunal’s pre-trial chamber, a copy of which was obtained by VOA-Khmer on Monday.
In October, lawyers for the regime’s foreign minister, Ieng Sary, and former head of state, Khieu Samphan, accused the French co-investigating judge of being biased and asked to have him removed.
In the statement Lemonde admitted that he might have joked about it in English at an informal meeting at his home.
“He said he was just joking but it was taken seriously. But if he doesn’t know English how can he joke?” said Sar Savan, a defense lawyer for Khieu Samphan.
3 comments:
All this KR-T commotions is just a waiste of time and millions millions $$ of funds.
why won't they summons old king, hun xen all the cpp high official who were KR leaders? Otherwise it's all useless!
All court system are useless in Cambodia. The other day hun xen shot firearm up in the air as a signal in the city. No one dare to press charge on this unethical and ilegal charactorisation.
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 Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Assassinated over eighty members of Sam Rainsy Party.
"But as of today, over eighty members of my party have been assassinated. Countless others have been injured, arrested, jailed, or forced to go into hiding or into exile."
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Executions
Executed members of FUNCINPEC Party
Murders
Murdered Chea Vichea
Murdered Ros Sovannareth
Murdered Hy Vuthy
Murdered Khim Sambo
Murdered Khim Sambo's son
Murdered members of Sam Rainsy Party.
Murdered activists of Sam Rainsy Party
Murdered Innocent Men
Murdered Innocent Women
Murdered Innocent Children
Killed Innocent Khmer Peoples.
Extrajudicial Execution
Grenade Attack
Terrorism
Drive by Shooting
Brutalities
Police Brutality Against Monks
Police Brutality Against Evictees
Tortures
Intimidations
Death Threats
Threatening
Human Abductions
Human Abuses
Human Rights Abuses
Human Trafficking
Drugs Trafficking
Under Age Child Sex
Corruptions
Bribery
Illegal Arrest
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 Removed 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
Persecution
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, leaders of the Free Trade Union, innocent men, women and children have ever been brought to justice.
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