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| In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, who ran the notorious Toul Sleng detention center, greets court officers during his appeal at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, March 29, 2011. The man who admitted to overseeing the torture and killing of 16,000 people as the Khmer Rouge's chief prison warden returned to the courtroom in Cambodia to appeal his 19-year prison sentence for war crimes and crimes against humanity. (Photo: AFP) |
Thursday, 01 September 2011
Kong Sothanarith, VOA Khmer | Phnom Penh
“By the end of the year, there will be a verdict.”
The Supreme Court Chamber of the Khmer Rouge tribunal said Thursday it hopes to have a final verdict in the case of torture chief Duch by the end of the year.
Duch, whose real name is Kaing Kek Iev, underwent an atrocity crimes trial at the UN-backed court in 2009, and was later given a commuted sentence of 19 years for overseeing the torture and execution of more than 12,000 Cambodians at Tuol Sleng prison.
Prosecutors say they want that sentence—which upset many victims of the regime—increased to 45 years, while defense had appealed to have him released.
“The public will be informed about the date of the pronouncement of the judgment as soon as it is determined,” the chamber said in a statement.
“By the end of the year, there will be a verdict,” tribunal spokesman Dim Sovannarom said.
The trial of Duch, who admitted his guilt and asked for the forgiveness of his victims, was a first for the court, which was established in 2006 and has shouldered criticism for its slow pace, as jailed leaders and their victims advance in age.
The announcement came after a leading victim activist, Tuol Sleng survivor Vann Nath, fell into a coma after an apparent heart attack last week. He remains in that condition at a clinic in the capital.
Chum Mey, who also survived the prison and is the president of the Association of Democratic Kampuchea Victims, said he was “not yet happy” with the work of the court, which is now preparing a case against four more jailed regime leaders.
7 comments:
Are we going to spend another 32 years finding justice for Cambodia?
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Please stop with the show and convict them all. And start bringing the vietcong aggressors/terrorists/cpp cronies to court.
Khmer Rouge motherfucker!
Release Duch is better to allow youn flowing into Cambodia.
Release him in hell.
Khmer as the victims of genocide between 1975-1979, We need the real Khmer ECCC not this Hanoi-US ECCC in this fake Kingdom of Cambodia.
Just look at this and judge for yourself ( Dear Khmer readers ).
This Hanoi-US ECCC keep dragging on and on to avoid full public hearing.
1. Political interference from Hun Sen and CPP.
2. Wide spread corruption in this Hainoi-US ECCC to block the process.
3. Holding the suspects beyond holding period ( overs 3 years ) so far since late 2007-2011 ( nearly 4 years ).
4. By laws the supects have rights to have their witnesses .
5. Refusing suspects 's witnesses to showing up and spkeaking out in the court room.
7. And many more dirty tricks on the way for this Hanoi-US ECCC.
Note: UN ‘s role if neutral without US interference is very vital role.
US always interfere UN role if that role involved to US for instance US B 52 booming in Cambodia
between 1969-1973 , 200 days and nights has caused many Cambodian lives especially in rural
areas not only so many Cambodian lives but also caused severe starvation , I can witness this
as so many Cambodian fled US B 52 from the countryside to Phnom Pen Capital city after 1973
so many died on the streets even in those days we have Red Cross and also some other helping
NGOs but the size of this tragedy was out of control.
And this was North-South , US War that speeded from yuon country into our poor nation.
And this is only part of the war that dragged Cambodia into up to days hell.
We still and always need UN, US roles in Cambodia and in Asean country as a whole but we must learn
and except the truth that US role has double side effects and we must learn how to use the right side of these .
And this is the reason why I call this is Hanoi-US ECCC.
It all about Indochina Federation to put Cambodia into yuon yoke as they already did to Laos.
8:45 AM,
I agree with your comment :
Please stop with the show and convict them all. And start bringing the vietcong aggressors/terrorists/cpp cronies to court.
8:45 PM
My comment show have been played by Hanoi-US .
Look at at ECCC and all the prisons all over Cambodia all Khmer have been jailed while the yuon illegal migrants all over the country walking , doing bussinesses and spying on Khmer people freely .
It is all about Indochina Federation .
Wake up all Khmer at home and abroad before it is too late like Champa and Kampuchea-Krom and Laos.
KR=CPP,
CPP=Vietcong,
Vietcong=KR
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