Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Hun Xen’s gov’t: Lawsuit by Nuon Chea’s lawyers is a joke (sic!)

Hor 5 Hong
26 October 2011
By Yun Samean
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Soch

On 25 October, a high ranking government official considered the lawsuit brought up by a group of Nuon Chea’s defense lawyer as a useless joke.

The government official’s mockery came after Nuon Chea’s defense lawyers filed a lawsuit on 24 October to the Phnom Penh municipal court, accusing a number of high-ranking government officials of interfering with the KR Tribunal progress.

Hor 5 Hong, the minister of Foreign Affairs, told reporters at his ministry that the government does not care to reply to Nuon Chea’s defense lawyers’ accusation, claiming that the government interferes with the KR Tribunal: “This is a joke that we don’t need to reply back.

Nuon Chea’s defense lawyers accused Hun Xen and a number of high-ranking government officials of violating the law by preventing witnesses from testifying at the KR Tribunal and by preventing the court from bringing additional suspects to try. These defense lawyers consider these actions as being joint criminal plan in order to interfere with the judicial system and the rights of the accused to receive a fair trial.


The accusations leveled by Nuon Chea’s defense lawyers are very similar to the accusations leveled by the international Co-Investigating Judge Siegfried Blunk who resigned from his position on 09 October.

Blunk indicated that the reason he resigned was because in May 2011, Khieu Kanharith, the minister of Information, claimed that if the KRT wants to try Case 003/004, it should pack and leave Cambodia. Furthermore, Hor 5 Hong indicated that the decision to arrest additional suspects is the Cambodian government’s rights. Blunk added that these were the reason why he cannot work independently and without pressure.

On 20 October, the UN told government officials not to talk about the KRT work, in particular, in regards to Case 003/004 in which 5 other suspects would be brought to trial.

Last Thursday, the KRT issued a statement indicating that Patricia O’Brien, the UN legal counsel, told Sok An, the minister of the Council of Ministers, to prevent government officials from issuing any statement that affect the progress of the KRT, in particular, in Case 003/004, as well as in other judicial matters. She indicated that the Cambodian government has the duty to cooperate with the KRT during the trial of the suspects.

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

2 654 765 were slaughtered by you HOR 5 HONG(khmer rouge),come on it's not a joke!

the international judge knew well who you were .You are more cruller than Kadhafi.

Anonymous said...

Hor 5 Hong is a sick Communist CPP old fart coming from Communist Vietgook! He was a former Khmer Rouges Prison Chief during the Khmer Rouges regime. Kick this bastard's ass out of Khmer Land. Stupid smile is an evil Vietgook bastard.

Anonymous said...

You the killer HNH. And you said that the joke? u are inhumane. U are vicious and vulture like strayed dog. Killing so many people as prison chief, u can manage to laugh and say it is a joke? Ur brain full of poisonous idea.

when will you die?

Anonymous said...

khmer dead in killing field by his smiling .

Anonymous said...

....Therefore,Cambodian justice has nothing serious.What ah Hor 5 hong did represent Ah Youn arrogant manner in cambodia. All khmer must understand that everything in khmer politics today are the youn 's plan.

Anonymous said...

Can the ex commie Motherfucker know how to respect the laws!!!!!

Motherfuckers ah Hor nam hong just know the pwer of inprison and killing with no due prosess as real to the Motherfucker!@!!!

Why don't this so called Government of condome of Cambodia talk with respeck to peacefull due process of LAWS??????

Anonymous said...

Ah youn Monky!!!!

Anonymous said...

HOR NAM HONG, A BARBARIC KILLER.

Anonymous said...

By not responding they proved one thing that they have always denied
they are above the LAW

Anonymous said...

You may never know when hun xen decides to take this criminal complains against him seriously and file the defamation lawsuit against kR defence lawyers.If that happens or is the question of when ?.It would be most interesting to see which way it pans out.Then your guess just as good
as mine.

Anonymous said...

Tngay nis ah Hor 5 Hong seuich ,tngay s'aek ah neung youm ....

Anonymous said...

Ah Chress Hor Nam Hong chit dol thngay Ansar heuy!!

Anonymous said...

For Hun Sen , Hor Namhong it is a joke.

But for million Cambodian victims it show us more and more clearly that the more CPP interfere with KR Trials the more it tell Cambodian victims that CPP High ranking official has involved deeply in genocide between 1975-1979.

And we the victim of this genocide also know that yuon Hanoi formed CPP .

Anonymous said...

Half of CPP members are with Vietnamese blood and half of them are also with Pol Pot blood. Hor Nam Hong, thinks this is a joke, because the dead are now laughing with him.