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Phnom Penh - The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was short on detail Thursday about the prospects for Cambodia's war crimes tribunal, one day after Prime Minister Hun Sen told him he would not tolerate further prosecutions of former Khmer Rouge cadre.
Speaking at the Tuol Sleng genocide museum in Phnom Penh, Ban said he had met earlier with senior government officials to discuss the subject.
But he would not be drawn on whether the UN would walk away from the process, saying that he felt Phnom Penh was 'committed to completion of the process.'
'The United Nations will discuss this matter with the international community members, particularly donors. That's what I can tell you at this stage,' he said.
He added that the decision on whether to proceed with more prosecutions should be made solely by the hybrid UN-Cambodian court.
Hun Sen's comments Wednesday prompted criticism that he was again interfering with the judicial process. The Open Society Justice Initiative, a George-Soros-funded tribunal monitor, condemned them as an 'unacceptable attempt to strangle the court.'
Late Wednesday the government toned down its message when Minister of Information Khieu Kanharith said that, contrary to media reports, Hun Sen had not expressly forbidden further prosecutions.
'We don't say 'forbidden', because you cannot dictate, you cannot impose your will on the court,' Khieu Kanharith said, adding that the prime minister would simply prefer that the next two cases did not proceed.
He said Hun Sen had a number of reasons - including a perceived threat to political stability - for opposing further prosecutions.
Ban's spokesman Yves Sorokobi stressed that the tribunal must remain free from political interference, and that all parties must respect the judicial process.
'We have to give [court officials] the space that they need to make the proper decision. There should be no political interference with their work,' he said Wednesday.
The Khmer Rouge is considered responsible for the deaths of up to 2.2 million people in the 1970s.
Hun Sen also told Ban that he wanted the UN's human rights office to close, something Sorokobi said the secretary general would take into consideration, since its presence was a matter of agreement between the UN and a member state.
Earlier this year, the tribunal convicted former Khmer Rouge security chief Comrade Duch of war crimes and crimes against humanity for the deaths of more than 12,000 people at the S-21 security prison, now the Tuol Sleng genocide museum.
The UN chief is scheduled to depart on Thursday for Vietnam, where he will attend a summit between the United Nations and the Association of South-East Asian Nations bloc. He will conclude his Asian tour in China.
7 comments:
LONG LIVE VEIT NAM.. You all should wishes that you never born and if you born next born as vietnamese so you be smarter...
Hun sen and CPP doing a good job for US... the master.. and Phay siphan providing a good lip services and SOK Siphana and Sarin Donora are working hard to manipulate all the foerigners there for us.. the rest of our vietnamese brother and sisters are all in every officials position in the cambodian government.
Long live Viet Nam
soon we will take thailand too
You all khmer wishes you never born.. next time make sure you born as a vietnamses maybe you a little smarter
you all useless khmer peoples have no more chance.. we vietnam controle your idiot king... HUN SEN and all the family and CPP.. we have our citizen in every level of your government.. basically we run you whole country for you.. becuase you khmer are useless and stupid and idiot.. if you dont believe ask you parent..
look you country now.. it is the fact you wishes you never born.. next time you better born as vietnamese.. Long live viet nam.. soon we will control even thailand the land of gay and lesbian they dont care they only make love .. so it will be more easy..
we want to thank hun sen and cpp ... personal that to phay siphan for his lip services and sok siphana the brother inlaw to the rapist young girls minister of information and Sarin Denora for their manipulation to all the idiot foreigners in cambodian .. we will reward you and we will keep you in power..
If you look at the case digit number 001, there would be 998 cases more at least need to be prosecuted for the genocide during Hun Sen's brother, Pol Pot,ruled Cambodia. This may included Hun Sen company and the one talked blindly shit on this forum. Remember UN is the world body can not do whatever Akwak want in the wrong way.
Who say correctly of what their boss talked with Mr Ban at closed door? Maybe Mr Khiev but not likely....
Hey..hey...Pity to Mr Namhorng because he is too old to join important meeting of the country. He wrongly listened to the meeting and told press wrong thing from what his boss talked with Mr Ban.
Mr Namhorng should thank Mr Khiev because he helped you from getting your head cut.
2:10PM very well said mate.
1:33 PM
bạn ăn đồ ngu mẹ con chó.
Go back to Vietnam to live your miserable life, con chó.
Thank you9:27pm for your comment to 1:33pm.We will beat you up with words of war against you.All blogger should beat him up.may God bless Vietnam with fire,flood,and volcanoes,burn them alive.
1.This guy got a face of an evils
2. This Motherf***er has a toilet mouth full of germs, and human waist
3. this does not know what he is talking about.
4. He is a gangster.
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