Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Four Jailed Khmer Rouge Leaders To Be Tried Together


Sok Khemara & Kong Sothanarith
Washington & Phnom Penh Tuesday, 17 August 2010

Lars Olsen, a tribunal spokesman, said the four will be tried together because they are charge with “the same crimes, the same criminal plans, the same evidences and [use] the same witnesses.”
The four senior-most leaders of the Khmer Rouge currently in custody at the UN-backed tribunal will be tried as a group, court officials said Tuesday.

Nuon Chea, Khieu Samphan, Ieng Sary and Ieng Thirith will be tried together at once next year, said Kranh Tony, acting administrative director for the court.

Lars Olsen, a tribunal spokesman, said the four will be tried together because they are charge with “the same crimes, the same criminal plans, the same evidences and [use] the same witnesses.”

That trial could take place as soon as March 2011, officials said.

The administrative announcement comes a day after all four were indicted by prosecutors, who sent in their final submissions on Monday. In that submission, prosecutors did not recommend that Kaing Kek Iev, the prison chief better known as Duch, should not be tried with them, although investigating judges can still determine to put him on trial.

Duch received a commuted sentence of 19 years from the tribunal last month, for his role as chief commander of the center.

The prosecutor submission calls for charges of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions and violations of Cambodian law.

“The Co-Prosecutors believe that the evidence collected in the judicial investigation demonstrates that the Charged Persons committed these crimes through a joint criminal enterprise, the purpose of which was to enforce a political revolution in Cambodia and systematically destroy any opposition to the [Communist Party of Kampuchea] rule,” according to the submission.

Joint Criminal Enterprise is a complex legal theory that seeks to put different defendants together for trial.

Prosecutors said that through joint criminal enterprise, those charged had “enslaved the Cambodian population, deprived them of their fundamental human rights and freedoms and orchestrated mass killings of individuals that the Charged Persons and other CPK leaders perceived to be real or potential enemies of the CPK.”

Son Arun, an attorney for Nuon Chea, said Monday he would need time to read the prosecutors' decision before commenting.

Investigating judges will now review the prosecution's submission.

20 comments:

  1. Anonymous8:04 AM

    Can't wait until 20 years from now when a newer generation of Cambodians place Hun Sen, Heng Samrin, Chea Sim, and a few others on trial on accounts of crimes against humanity, money laundering, and treason. Hopefully, most Cambodians by that time aren't so ignorant and retarded as they are right now.

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  2. Anonymous8:08 AM

    It must be Sihaknuk Hun Sen Heng Somrin and Chea Sim that is the right thing to start to get the light of justice for Cambodian ppl.

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  3. Anonymous8:47 AM

    ho chi minh must be tried as well, post-mortem.

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  4. Anonymous9:29 AM

    Sihanouk, please join these foursome.Because without you,these four had no chance to slaughter their own people.How could you sleep with your guilt .Follow the japanese's footstep.If they felt guilty they commit HARAKIRI.

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  5. Anonymous10:04 AM

    I can't wait for justice be done both on earth and it is in heaven.

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  6. Anonymous10:29 AM

    Look at these evils! They looked like being bornt from animal sperms. That is why they didn't have any humanity in their brain. They know only killings and destructions. They should be strown out to the sea to feed sharks.

    Areak Prey

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  7. Anonymous10:53 AM

    There are two kinds of Youns: Youns Pol Pot slaughtered millions of Khmers and then Youns Hun Sen came and helped Khmers but wanted some lands in exchange, and continue to have some more, so think about it your stupid Khmers. Khmers will be the same as Champa if Khmers don't stand up and do somethings.

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  8. Anonymous12:33 PM

    I thought all those idiots Leaders are Khmer. Do they educated or what if they do why they kills our own people? I never seen any fucking country that do this kind of stupid thing like Khmer people does. Just fucking cutting them pieces by pieces they're deserves that fucking stupid mother fuckers.

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  9. Anonymous7:34 PM

    ALL OF ABOVE ARE TRUE!!!

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  10. Anonymous7:48 PM

    Communist Vietnam and China were together at the start. All Cambodian people have to leave their homes and former jobs on April 17th of 1975. Mr. Hu Nim and Hu youn opposed to it. What happened to them? They got killed.Then came the late months of 1976 and 1977. The words CIA and KGB appeared at every Khmer Rouge's meeting. If anyone would have any connection to any of these two words, you'll be taken away and then be destroyed or killed. Ten of thousand of innocent people died. Simply because they were just friends. Young people in their teenagers and early twenty were removed one by one. Then came great fear, starvation and decease which paralyzed the entire population. The UN court has every right to call these monsters to ask them why they do what they did? and who gave them power and support to do all evils things in Cambodia during those years?

    Removing people from their homes and jobs on April 17th of 1975 gave those monsters the biggest door to abuse Cambodian people. They can do whatever they want and however they want. The border was closed. There was zero communication going through Cambodia from the outside world and between the people. You tell us when all eyes and ears were closed to the people inside the country. Please show them the evident of what happened to Cambodian from their strangest and bazzar action, because those monsters seem like they don't know anything about it. Well Mr. Noun Chea, Kiev Samphan , Eng Sary and Mrs. Eng, it was because you have destroyed all the former staff , ruled and law that was one effectively running Cambodia humanly and peacefully. When you do away with everything they have like their homes their family and their skill, you will have none of those to defense the innocent. Therefore you allowed all short of lawless acts and criminal activities to cover Cambodia freely. The result, you have destroyed millions of people. All four of you must be punished for this horrible crime against humanity. Also your bosses must be paid as well for this great destruction of the Cambodian people. Thank you

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  11. Anonymous7:55 PM

    $ 100 millions a year for two centuries paying for every person that died between 1975 and 1979 by Communist government who committed crimes against Cambodian people. Also they must denounce their regime as soon as possible and justice will be fully served in Cambodia.

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  12. Anonymous8:27 PM

    In 1975 you were winner but you didn't know how to remain winner then you became loser by killing Khmers, killing your allied and you are now in the prison.
    Too late to learn..

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  13. Anonymous9:33 PM

    Let hang them all at the olympic stadium. That would justified me. I lost both my parents, brother and sister in this KR shit. Let their family be homeless, broken and no parents to call for. Sorry wont bring my family back

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  14. Anonymous10:57 PM

    Some body know Yeay Ieng Thyrith,when she was young? (1960 what she was doing?)

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  15. Anonymous2:57 AM

    Who killed 1.7 million innocent Khmer peoples?

    a) Pol Pot
    b) Nuon Chea
    c) Ta Mok 
    d) Khieu Samphan 
    e) Son Sen 
    f) Kaing Guek Eav aka Samak Mith Duch
    g) Ieng Sary 
    h) Ieng Thearith
    i) Chea Sim
    j) Heng Samrin
    k) Hor Namhong aka Samak Mith Yaem
    l) Keat Chhon
    m) Ouk Bunchhoeun
    n) Sim Ka aka Samak Mith Muth
    o) Hun Sen...
    p) all of above

    Source:
    DC-CAM
    Document Center of Cambodia


    On October 7, 2009 Chea Sim, Heng Samrin, Hor Namhong, Keat Chhon, Ouk Bunchhoeun and Sim Ka has been summoned by the UN backed Khmer Rouge Tribunal court (ECCC).

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  16. Anonymous2:58 AM

    Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime's leaders and members:
    Pol Pot
    Nuon Chea
    Ieng Sary
    Ta Mok
    Khieu Samphan
    Son Sen
    Ieng Thearith
    Kaing Guek Eav aka Samak Mith Duch
    Chea Sim
    Heng Samrin
    Hor Namhong aka Samak Mith Yaem
    Keat Chhon
    Ouk Bunchhoeun
    Sim Ka aka Samak Mith Muth
    Hun Sen...

    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's leaders and members:
    Hun Sen
    Chea Sim
    Heng Samrin
    Hor Namhong aka Samak Mith Yaem
    Keat Chhon
    Ouk Bunchhoeun
    Sim Ka aka Samak Mith Muth...

    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 80 members of Sam Rainsy Party.

    Sam Rainsy LIC 31 October 2009 - Cairo, Egypt
    "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."
      
    Executions
    Executed over 100 members of FUNCINPEC Party
    Murders
    Murdered 3 Leaders of the Free Trade Union 
    Murdered Chea Vichea
    Murdered Ros Sovannareth
    Murdered Hy Vuthy
    Murdered 10 Journalists
    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
    Embezzlement
    Treason
    Border Encroachment, allow Vietnam to encroaching into Cambodia.
    Signed away our territories to Vietnam; Koh Tral, almost half of our ocean territory oil field and others.  
    Illegal Arrest
    Illegal Mass Evictions
    Illegal Land Grabbing
    Illegal Firearms
    Illegal Logging
    Illegal Deforestation

    Illegally use of remote detonate bomb on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and other military officials were on board.

    Lightning strike many airplanes, but did not fall from the sky.  Lightning strike out side of airplane and discharge electricity to ground. 
    Source:  Lightning, Discovery Channel

    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 Vietnam 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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  17. Anonymous2:59 AM

    Which one of these Khmer Rouge(s) list below is a prison chief of Boeung Trabek prison B32?

    a) Pol Pot
    b) Nuon Chea
    c) Ta Mok 
    d) Khieu Samphan 
    e) Son Sen 
    f) Kaing Guek Eav aka Samak Mith Duch
    g) Ieng Sary 
    h) Ieng Thearith
    i) Chea Sim
    j) Heng Samrin
    k) Hor Namhong aka Samak Mith Yaem
    l) Keat Chhon
    m) Ouk Bunchhoeun
    n) Sim Ka aka Samak Mith Muth
    o) Hun Sen

    Source:
    DC-CAM
    Document Center of Cambodia

    Fact:
    During the Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime;
    There are 196 prisons.
    There are 196 prison chiefs.
    There are 1.7 million innocent Khmer peoples killed by the Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime.

    Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime's leaders and members:
    Pol Pot
    Nuon Chea
    Ieng Sary
    Ta Mok
    Khieu Samphan
    Son Sen
    Ieng Thearith
    Kaing Guek Eav aka Samak Mith Duch
    Chea Sim
    Heng Samrin
    Hor Namhong aka Samak Mith Yaem
    Keat Chhon
    Ouk Bunchhoeun
    Sim Ka aka Samak Mith Muth
    Hun Sen...

    Kaing Guek Eav is a prison chief of Toul Sleng prison S21.
    Source:
    DC-CAM
    Document Center of Cambodia

    The UN backed Khmer Rouge Tribunal court (ECCC) must indict 195 other prison chiefs.

    "I will not allow the UN backed Khmer Rouge Tribunal court (ECCC) to indict more Khmer Rouge Regime leaders, I rather let the court (KRT ECCC) fail.  Indict more Khmer Rouge Regime's leaders will lead the country into a civil war."
    Samak Mith Hun Sen
    Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime's leader

    Samak Mith Hun Sen will not allow the UN backed Khmer Rouge Tribunal court (ECCC) to indict more Khmer Rouge Regime leaders who is responsible for killing 1.7 million innocent Khmer peoples.

    Samak Mith Hun Sen threaten to turn Cambodia back into the Killing Fields all over again.

    War with whom?
    War with innocent Khmer peoples without weapon?

    Once a Khmer Rouge, always a Khmer Rouge.

    A good Khmer Rouge(s) is a dead Khmer Rouge(s).

    Khmer Rouge(s) continue to kill innocent Khmer peoples.

    Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime's leaders and members:
    Hun Sen
    Chea Sim
    Heng Samrin
    Hor Namhong aka Samak Mith Yaem
    Keat Chhon
    Ouk Bunchhoeun
    Sim Ka aka Samak Mith Muth...

    "(Samak Mith) Duch (Kaing Guek Eav) 19 years sentence is too short and doesn't fit his crimes."
    Samak Mith Yaem (Hor Namhong)
    Prison Chief of Boeung Trabek prison B32

    Hor Namhong want the whole world to know that he is not a Khmer Rouge and a prison chief of Boeung Trabek prison B32.

    Hor Namhong is a prison chief of Boeung Trabek prison B32.
    Source:
    "A CAMP CALLED BOENG TRABEK"
    PHNOM PENH POST, JANUARY 19 - FEBRUARY 1, 2001

    Keo Bunthouk who was detained with her husband, former diplomat Ieng Kounsaky, at the Boeng Trabek camp (Section B32 presided over by Hor Namhong) from 1977 to 1979.

    Q: Who should be held responsible for the murders of Boeng Trabek inmates?
    A: Now you repeat this question and maybe Hor Namhong will want to assassinate me, what will happen to me? I've heard that Hor Namhong wants to sue the newspaper that said he was Khmer Rouge.

    Keo Bunthouk died under suspicious circumstances in 2001, shortly after she gave interview to the Phnom Penh Post.

    Keo Bunthouk was a survivor of Boeng Trabek prison B32.

    Keo Bunthouk was a member of the Cambodian Parliament from FUNCINPEC Party.

    Hor Namhong said to the French judge that he is not a prison chief of Boeung Trabek prison B32, in fact members of his family was killed by Khmer Rouge(s).

    Hor Namhong can lies all he want, at the end, he got summoned and will get indict, prosecute, convict and sentence.

    Criminals likes to lies.

    The place where criminals lies the most is inside the court room in front of the judge(s).

    On October 7, 2009 Chea Sim, Heng Samrin, Hor Namhong, Keat Chhon, Ouk Bunchhoeun and Sim Ka has been summoned by the UN backed Khmer Rouge Tribunal court (ECCC).

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  18. Anonymous3:01 AM

    Which one of these Khmer Rouge(s) list below is the current Khmer Rouge Regime's leader?

    a) Pol Pot
    b) Nuon Chea
    c) Ta Mok 
    d) Khieu Samphan 
    e) Son Sen 
    f) Kaing Guek Eav aka Samak Mith Duch
    g) Ieng Sary 
    h) Ieng Thearith
    i) Chea Sim
    j) Heng Samrin
    k) Hor Namhong aka Samak Mith Yaem
    l) Keat Chhon
    m) Ouk Bunchhoeun
    n) Sim Ka aka Samak Mith Muth
    o) Hun Sen

    Fact:
    Pol Pot is a Khmer Rouge leader of the Democratic Kampuchea Khmer Rouge Regime.

    Hun Sen was a Khmer Rouge commander of the Democratic Kampuchea Khmer Rouge Regime and now, a Khmer Rouge leader of the Cambodian People's Party Khmer Rouge Regime.

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  19. Anonymous3:09 AM

    3:01 AM, listen to the documents in YouTube and you would be more confused..and look less retarded :)

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  20. Anonymous3:09 AM

    3:01 AM, listen to the documents in YouTube and you would be less confused..and look less retarded :)

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