Original report from Washington
02 February 2010
Khmer Rouge tribunal officials expect to finish trials at the UN-backed court by 2015, trying only 10 defendants at a cost to donors of around $100 million, according to budget documents obtained by VOA Khmer.
According to a budget proposal for 2010 and 2011, the tribunal is seeking $93.3 million to try five Khmer Rouge cadre already in detention. In an additional proposal, from 2012 to 2015, the tribunal is seeking $320,000 to potentially try an additional five Khmer Rouge cadre, who have yet to be arrested or charged.
“All offices, including the Office of Administration, are anticipated to be closed by the end of 2015,” according to the “Preliminary Budget Estimates 2012-2015.”
The 2011 budget proposal, meanwhile, anticipates a conclusion of Case No. 002, of five leaders currently in custody, by the middle of 2012. A third case could be finished by 2014.
However, Lars Olsen, a spokesman for the tribunal, said the court is committed to the judicial process, not deadlines.
“Everyone is committed to making sure that we have expedient and fair trials in all these cases, and a deadline is currently not on the agenda,” he told VOA Khmer.
Olsen confirmed both budget proposals had been submitted to donors.
Donors have not yet pledged additional funding for the new budgets, but representatives in New Yorktold VOA Khmer last week they are considering them. At least one diplomat said some donors would like to see the court wrap up by 2012.
According to a budget proposal for 2010 and 2011, the tribunal is seeking $93.3 million to try five Khmer Rouge cadre already in detention. In an additional proposal, from 2012 to 2015, the tribunal is seeking $320,000 to potentially try an additional five Khmer Rouge cadre, who have yet to be arrested or charged.
“All offices, including the Office of Administration, are anticipated to be closed by the end of 2015,” according to the “Preliminary Budget Estimates 2012-2015.”
The 2011 budget proposal, meanwhile, anticipates a conclusion of Case No. 002, of five leaders currently in custody, by the middle of 2012. A third case could be finished by 2014.
However, Lars Olsen, a spokesman for the tribunal, said the court is committed to the judicial process, not deadlines.
“Everyone is committed to making sure that we have expedient and fair trials in all these cases, and a deadline is currently not on the agenda,” he told VOA Khmer.
Olsen confirmed both budget proposals had been submitted to donors.
Donors have not yet pledged additional funding for the new budgets, but representatives in New Yorktold VOA Khmer last week they are considering them. At least one diplomat said some donors would like to see the court wrap up by 2012.
5 comments:
Wow! Sound like a bunch of ravaging wolfs feeding on the skeletons of the dead. Glad I'm not paying for these professional circus. I don't mean to be insensitive about the dead
and the living from that era, but these human right liberators are becoming human rites to riches.
Ha, Ha, Ha .... à eux pleins les poches. Je plains les contribuables des pays donateurs !!!
You always mock at the budget for the KR Tribunal. But you never want ti understand the Tribunal process who has to deal with Millions of dead people. It needs time and money to judge thosr big criminal. iT´s not a Svayrieng -type Trunal.
Why don't they take that money and compensate the living with it? It will do more good. That's it, it will do more good for the living--that is, the poor in the land of the survivors.
Don't put too much stock in the UNITED NATIONS. They are a facade of lies base on pretense.
7:52PM! because justice and thrue are very important in human society and if there is no knowledge of right annd wrong we may op to do the wrong thing again and again!
Knowledge is more important than the paper PhD! let your parents know about this too!
Loeurn from the free world! See what your parents (CPP) alway repeat what Pol Pot did to the people?
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