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| Composite image of the four former Khmer Rouge leaders to face trial in Cambodia. [Reuters] |
Friday, September 23, 2011
Robert Carmichael, Phnom Penh
Australia Network News
The UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal will separate charges against the four leaders of the destructive regime that ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979.
The decision will speed up verdicts and ensure judgments are issued on a charge-by-charge basis through the life of the trial.
The first charge the elderly defendants will face next year is that of crimes against humanity.
The court will then issue its ruling on that charge before proceeding on to the next, which will either be war crimes or genocide.
The surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge movement - which is blamed for as many as 2.2 million deaths - deny all charges.
The purpose of breaking up proceedings in this way is to avoid the experience of other tribunals in which ill or ageing defendants have died before a judgment was reached.
The tribunal has long described this trial as the most complex since the Nazi trials at Nuremberg.
1 comment:
Any court in Cambodia they are all under yuon Hanoi influence not to mention ECCC.
Wake up all Khmer ECCC is strongly under yuon Hanoi influence.
Stop dreaming for justice with this Hanoi ECCC.
Just look at all prisons and court system in Cambodia just to trial innocent Cambodian and let illegall yuon migrnats walk freely all over Cambodia.
Wake up all Khmer before it is too late like Champa and Laos.
It is all about Indochina Federation.
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