By RTT Staff Writer
(RTTNews) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday that it was up to the U.N.-backed war crimes court to decide whether to pursue further cases against members of Cambodia's former Khmer Rouge regime.
"This is the decision to be made by the court. The United Nations will discuss this matter with international community members, particularly donors," Ban told reporters in Cambodia.
He made the remarks while visting a former prison and torture center in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, where he offered prayers to the victims of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime. He left for Vietnam later on Thursday after completing his three-day Cambodia trip.
Ban's statements came a day after Prime Minister Hun Sen told the U.N. chief that his government would not allow further prosecutions of former Khmer Rouge cadres.
Hun told Ban that the four former Khmer Rouge leaders currently awaiting trial would be the last to be prosecuted, insisting that the move as required to preserve peace and political stability in the country.
The U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Cambodia was established in 2006 to prosecute members of the Khmer Rouge regime. The tribunal has concluded just one case and is scheduled to begin hearing the second one early next year.
Earlier this year, the tribunal had sentenced Kaing Guek Eav, a former Khmer Rouge prison chief known as Comrade Duch, to 30 years in prison after finding him guilty of committing crimes against humanity.
The four other Khmer Rouge leaders awaiting trial in the tribunal's second case are: Nuon Chea--the group's former deputy supremo known as "Brother Number Two"; former foreign minister Ieng Sary, his wife and former social affairs minister Ieng Thirith, besides former head of state Khieu Samphan.
The tribunal has also taken efforts to open two more cases against five unnamed lower-ranking Khmer Rouge cadres, who are accused of murder, torture and other crimes. But the Cambodian Premier's latest statements have cast doubts whether those trials would be held.
The radical Communist Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia in 1975 after ousting a U.S.-backed government shortly after the U.S. pullout from neighboring Vietnam.
It is believed that the regime executed over two million fellow-Cambodians in its efforts to forcefully create a peasant society based on Maoist principles before the Vietnamese Army ousted it in 1979. The group's top leader, "Brother Number One" Pol Pot, died in 1998.
7 comments:
Pretending to promote peace, Hun Sen doesn't want Khmer rouge Court to prosecute other criminals
but it would be the contrary,
it would bring peace.
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 the ECCC stopped with just these 5 khmer rouge officials, Secretary General Ban should resign and the UN should hire Mr. Hun or Mr. Hor to be the next Secretary General...that would satisfy the world community and Cambodia's foreign donors, completely.
8:57 PM
bạn ăn đồ ngu mẹ con chó.
Go back to Vietnam to live your miserable life, con chó.
Viet Nam & HS are the two responsible parties who stages conflict behind the beating.
HS is responsible for the problem!
HS is the traitor.
HS is the culprit behind the beating.
HS must be brought to court for justice for destroying Khmer land and killing khmers K5 and small clashes ...
We, CPP (non-Pro-Hanoi) hold HS accountable for the all the crimes he committed.
cpp.....non Pro-Hanoi .... pp
Vietnam govt provoked killing field in Cambodia and is continuing to kill Khmer people until today.Wake up! Get any kinds of weapons to kill them back,get revolved all over the country and kill them.Come on! Go ! Stab them! Eat their flesh alive!
What is wrong with ah juoy marai Hun Sen?
Now, this mother f_cker go around and tell peoples what to do.
Ah juoy marai Hun Sen tell the Phnom Penh Court what to do.
Ah juoy marai Hun Sen tell the United Nation-backed Khmer Rouge Tribunal Court (ECCC) what to do.
Now, ah juoy marai Hun Sen tell the United Nation Secretary General what to do.
Who's the f_ck is this mother f_cker (Hun Sen)?
What the f_ck is wrong with this mother f_cker (Hun Sen)?
Who's the f_ck is he think he is?
A fifth grader would know that the court is the one who is responsible for deciding who to prosecute.
It is not up to ah juoy marai Hun Sen.
What don't ah juoy marai Hun Sen understand?
Now, ah juoy marai Hun Sen is the Khmer Rouge Regime's leader.
Ah juoy marai Hun Sen, do you also want to assassinate the United Nation Secretary General (Ban Ki-Moon)?
The reason why I'm asking is because you likes to assassinate your opponents.
This is what happen when ah juoy marai Hun Sen got a PhD without going to school.
by Khmer in Sydney CBD's hater
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