UN Must Defend Court’s Independence
Press Release
Date: October 27, 2010
Contact: Rachel Aicher
raicher@sorosny.org
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NEW YORK/PHNOM PENH—Prime Minister Hun Sen’s announcement that he will block the progress of further cases at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal represents an unacceptable attempt to strangle the court, said the Open Society Justice Initiative today.
“Hun Sen has just raised the stakes for the court dramatically,” said James A. Goldston, executive director of the Open Society Justice Initiative. “The tribunal has no choice but to proceed expeditiously with Cases 003/004 to establish that it does not take orders from the government.”
The international prosecutor sent Cases 003/004—naming five additional suspects—to the Office of Co-Investigating Judges for formal judicial investigation in September 2009. Since then, government officials have made their opposition to the cases clear. Little substantive investigation has been done on the cases to date, and all of it by international officials of the court without the assistance of Cambodian staff.
In a meeting yesterday in Phnom Penh, Hun Sen told UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that he would not allow Case 003 to progress. Cambodia’s Foreign Minister reiterated this in a public announcement.
“The United Nations cannot stand silent in the face of the Cambodian government’s blatant defiance of judicial independence,” said Goldston. “The UN must publicly condemn such statements and demand that political interference cease if the UN is to continue to support the court.”
Minimum fair trial standards require that individuals be tried before a competent, independent, and impartial court. Political interference undermines the entire tribunal. The Open Society Justice Initiative will issue a completion strategy report addressing these issues in greater detail next month.
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia is a hybrid court mandated to try “senior leaders” and “those most responsible” for crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge against some 1.7 million Cambodians from 1975 to 1979.
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 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.
Hey ah Hun Sen don't use your inmoral to The UN.The useless words that ah Hun Sen uses in the public ,that not for UN even a partial .So don't be scared your judgement day is coming, your Vietnam dog and dictator that tremendous hurting Cambodian PPL is the time that you Hun Sen and families are ready to pack your belonging and find the safe heaven or headless Hun Sen symbol is ready exist in every Cambodian mind set.
Good luck ah Hun Sen!
Long live Veit Nam? you misspelt your own country you freaken idiot hahah and here your stating if people were born in vietnam they would be smarter hahahah geez your dumb
to 1:32 PM
bạn ăn đồ ngu mẹ con chó.
Go back to Vietnam to live your miserable life, con chó.
Thank you so much 9:25pm about your comment to 1:32pm.May God bless short life of Vietnam.How come this guy is not able to spell Vietnam correctly because he is so mad or so angry;he'll be dead soon.Keep fighting him harder and harder.
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