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| Former foreign minister Ieng Sary and three other senior regime members deny the array of charges against them (AFP/ECCC/File, Mark Peters) |
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PHNOM PENH — A top ex-Khmer Rouge leader charged with genocide and other atrocities said Wednesday he will not take the stand during his long-awaited trial at Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes tribunal.
"With full knowledge of proceedings pending against me and my rights, I voluntarily, knowingly, and unequivocally put the trial chamber on notice that I will not testify," defendant Ieng Sary, 86, told the court in a statement.
The move would likely disappoint Cambodians who hope the trial will shed some light on the country's 1975-79 "Killing Fields" era.
Former foreign minister Ieng Sary and three other senior regime members deny the array of charges against them -- including war crimes and crimes against humanity -- for the deaths of up to two million people.
Their highly-anticipated joint trial is the tribunal's second and most important case. Opening statements are scheduled for November 21 and the presentation of evidence is to start on November 28.
"We are not boycotting the trial," stressed defence lawyer Michael Karnavas, explaining that the announcement was "out of courtesy" so the court can make the necessary scheduling arrangements.
Trial monitor Clair Duffy from the Open Society Justice Initiative funded by US billionaire George Soros said Ieng Sary's silence would be "a disappointment" to Khmer Rouge survivors.
"Cambodians generally come to the court to see these people and hear what they have to say," she said. "But the accused have a right not to say anything."
As the top Khmer Rouge diplomat, Ieng Sary was frequently the only point of contact between Cambodia's secretive communist rulers and the outside world, researchers say.
In its historic first case, the court last year sentenced former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav to 30 years in jail for overseeing the deaths of some 15,000 people. The case is now under appeal.
Led by "Brother Number One" Pol Pot, who died in 1998, the movement emptied Cambodia's cities and abolished money and schools in a bid to create an agrarian utopia before they were ousted from the capital by Vietnamese forces.
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chinese101-Khmer Rouge Archives
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Motherfucker take advantage of real moderned laws!! That OK! let his children think about that!
And why his son can be a deputy governor of Pailin??????? Because ah Kwack want peace to save his dick without freedome, human-right, and justice to the population of Cambodia!
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The motherfucker live to the age 86!! where is karma!
Ugly mofo!
If motherfuckers won't said shit just cut his pieces by pieces then I bet he'll said something.This animal motherfuckers I thought he education person too, why did he kills our own blood for? Stupidest motherfuckers I just wanted to cut his body pieces by pieces and drag him all over Cambodian that what he deserves for.
Throw him into a crocodile farm and let the crocodiles be the judges.
that is cruel 2"38.
Don't making anymore mistake stupid Eang Sary.
Go to testify so that the world know who were the real Khmer killers
As I told you again and again it was a wasteful and useless court in Cambodia . They spent hundred millions over 5 years resulted in nothing. Don't trust those criminals , they never ever complied wth court orders . It will better off to bring them to La Hage court immediately otherwise those criminals die one by one soon as they are very old .
Where the justice to the victims .
It is a joke . I am sick and tired to this studid court.
Where is the Karma in this world? Where is justice in this world? murders gets to live to 80-90 years old, and victims are buried in lies. What is ah FUCKING HUN SEN government doing to help bring peace?
Pol Pot.
Before Pol Pot passed away Pol Pot accused Ieng Sary is a traitor.
So the story between Pol Pot and Ieng Sary as sweat and end up with betterness ( enemy ) like these:
1. From classmate in France.
2. Became brothers in law.
3. From brothers in law became enemy.
So, so far only Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan have been ready to cooperate with this ECCC if this ECCC comply with the international court of jusice law, not CPP law.
Wheather Ieng Sary testify or not the following four will face life immprison :
1. Nuon Chea.
2. Ieng Sary.
3. Ieng Thirith.
4. Norminal leader Khieu Samphan.
We Khmer victims must not forget the truth that half of Khmer Rouge between 1975-1979 were Khmer Viet Minh as follow:
1. Heng Samrin.
2. Chea Sim .
3. So Phim.
4. Keo Meas .
5. And many more.
And CPP has been formed by yuon Hanoi.
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