By Robert Carmichael in Phnom Penh
ABC News (Australia)
Cambodia's war crimes tribunal has dismissed a request to investigate two of its foreign judges, including Australian Rowan Downing, for bias.
The panel of five judges at the joint UN-Cambodian tribunal was forced to investigate an allegation of bias made by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen in September.
Hun Sen said he knew that some foreign judges and prosecutors were taking instruction from their governments.
Following the claim, lawyers for former Khmer Rouge foreign minister Ieng Sary filed a request last month to investigate Australia's Rowan Downing and the Netherlands' Katinka Lahuis.
In their decision, released on Tuesday, the judges unanimously ruled that the request to investigate their colleagues was inadmissible and unfounded.
The ruling came days after the conclusion of the trial of the first defendant, Comrade Duch, who ran the Khmer Rouge's main execution centre called S-21.
The verdict in the case will be announced early next year.
The panel of five judges at the joint UN-Cambodian tribunal was forced to investigate an allegation of bias made by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen in September.
Hun Sen said he knew that some foreign judges and prosecutors were taking instruction from their governments.
Following the claim, lawyers for former Khmer Rouge foreign minister Ieng Sary filed a request last month to investigate Australia's Rowan Downing and the Netherlands' Katinka Lahuis.
In their decision, released on Tuesday, the judges unanimously ruled that the request to investigate their colleagues was inadmissible and unfounded.
The ruling came days after the conclusion of the trial of the first defendant, Comrade Duch, who ran the Khmer Rouge's main execution centre called S-21.
The verdict in the case will be announced early next year.
5 comments:
Can ECCC sue motherfucker for defamation?
Ah Kwack Hun Xen IMMUNITY should be taken away!!!!! Long ago!!
Can ECCC sue motherfucker for defamation?
Ah Kwack Hun Xen IMMUNITY should be taken away!!!!! Long ago!!
ah kwak euy....kmean Government na ke lorb doche ah pleu eang nos te...pouk Judges teang oss neis ke mean kou kbarl ke..min doche Cambodian Incompetent judges nos te...ah pleu!
monkey court?
assassins
The skulls cry and souls mourn and suffer because they were unjustly and savagely killed and now mocked by the assassins and its partners. These assassins now took their place, rob their land and clean all the traces of their existences by anyway that these assassins can.
Assassin! You can hide and clean your crimes from other but not from those who you killed and from the supreme judge. You will be killed and destroyed thousands times harder and harder for all your horribles crimes, anyway, anyhow, assassins...
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