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Phnom Penh Monday, 14 March 2011
"The Supreme Court Chamber will “review whether or not Duch is a most responsible senior official.”
The Supreme Court Chamber of the Khmer Rouge tribunal will conduct three days of hearings later this month in the case of torture chief Kaing Kek Iev, who was found guilty last year of atrocity crimes.
His 2009 trial lasted 77 days under the Trial Chamber of the UN-backed court, and many victims of the regime were outraged by the 19 years he received in commuted sentence.
The Supreme Court hearing will mark the completion of the trial, the court’s first. It is scheduled to begin March 28 and will be much shorter than the original trial because the appeals are limited in scope, a tribunal spokesman said.
“There are a few questions in the appeal,” the spokesman, Lars Olsen, said. “So we don’t need to hear all the witnesses and experts that appeared during the trial chamber. In addition, they have made long written submissions before this hearing.”
The Supreme Court hearings will mark the official end of the tribunal’s first trial, during which Kaing Kek Iev, better known as Duch, admitted responsibility for the more than 12,000 deaths that took place at Tuol Sleng prison under his leadership. He expressed remorse and sought forgiveness from the families of his victims, and in the end, he asked to be released.
His sentence was commuted form 35 years to 19 years. Tribunal prosecutors are now seeking a full 45 years imprisonment. The lower court also issued little in the way of reparations for civil parties, choosing to list the names of some on the tribunal website.
The Supreme Court Chamber will “review whether or not Duch is a most responsible senior official,” Olsen said. “Then they are going to review sentencing and they are going to review the decision on civil party application admissibility and reparation.”
The question of whether Duch is one of those most responsible for the crimes of the Khmer Rouge—a key mandate for the court—was raised by his defense lawyers following his trial. The question of sentencing was raised by prosecutors. And the question of reparations was raised by civil parties.
According to the tribunal schedule, the first day will be dedicated to Duch’s personal jurisdiction and whether he committed crimes against humanity; the second day will focus on his sentencing; and the third will focus civil party appeals.
4 comments:
Kaing Kek Iev also know as Duch is an example of the nightmare integrating of the chinese in cambodia.
Who says the Chinese community is always integrate well and without problems in Khmer society?
Don’t listen what the officials and some journalists say but open your eye and look at around you and see.
High ranking officials of CPP are Khmer Viet Minh and yuon as fellow:
1. Heng Samrin Khmer Viet Minh,
former Khmer Rouge , and CPP.
2. Chea Sim Khmer Viet Minh,
former Khmer Rouge , and CPP.
3. Hor Namhong former chief one of
Khmer Rouge prisons.
4. Meas Sophea born in Hanoi
serving as Army General in
Hun Sen regime.
These are only a few sample of Khmer Viet Minh, and yuon in CPP.
So who running Cambodia?
So who handling Khmer Rouge Trials?
The answer is obvious youn are running Cambodia and Handling Khmer Rouge Trials in the name of CPP.
So any justice for 1.7 milliona Cambodians who passed away between 1975-1979?
The real killers are at large , running Cambodia under name of CPP.
Please look at our real history.
Please have a good understanding late Ho Chi Minh Indochian Federation and you will see how dangerious we will face in the near future.
We will become minority on our own homeland.
We will be the same fate as Champa.
We wil be the same fate as Khmer-Krom becasue of yuon and Khmer Viet Minh in the name of CPP.
Wake up before it is too late.
Youn is running the trial!
That ugly fat vietnamese women.
Alway in the court room with her fat self.
I don't think this trial has not been appropriate and also it wasted time. It should be trialed outside Cambodia without Cambodian government (under CPP Youn). This trial for all KR has been suspicious and not fair. It is related to political propaganda under Viet/Youn Hanoi environment. I believe that the world has been so blind about this trial for the KR. There has to be a trial for Viet/Youn Hanoi who were behind all the killing fields and even today. I don't think Khmer people did not see the real truth about Youn/Viet secret plan to wipe out Khmer/Cambodian people before the illegal Youn/Vietnamese folks lived in Cambodia, but they (Viet/Youn) could not because they (Viet/Youn) were afraid that the world or international communities would find out they were the murderers instead of Khmer Rouges and Pol Pot. Viet/Youn secret agents and Hanoi are very clever and intelligent, but they are very very evil and troublemakers. I am not happy with the trial so far in Cambodia and so are Khmer people abroad.
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