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| Ieng Thirith, former social affairs minister of Khmer Rouge regime and one of four leaders expected to face trial next year, shown at Cambodia's war crimes tribunal near Phnom Penh. (VOA Khmer file photo) |
October 20, 2011
VOA News
The lawyer for the only female Khmer Rouge leader facing genocide charges in Cambodia's U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal says her client has dementia and should not be put on trial.
Defense attorney Diana Ellis on Thursday told the court in Phnom Penh that 79-year-old defendant Ieng Thirith has, in the lawyer's words, "no ability to recall events in her life... ," and as such "should be found unfit to stand trial."
Mental health experts told tribunal judges Wednesday that the former Khmer Rouge social affairs minister had serious health issues that could prevent her from standing trial. It was not immediately clear when the court will rule on the motion.
Ieng Thirith faces an array of charges, including crimes against humanity and war crimes in the deaths of up to 2 million Cambodians during Khmer Rouge rule. The other defendants are nominal Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan, reputed chief ideologue Nuon Chea and Ieng Thirth's husband, Khmer Rouge Foreign Minister Leng Sary.
Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot died in 1998.
In other developments, lawyers representing 4,000 victims of Khmer Rouge atrocities on Thursday presented a "wish list" for reparations to the tribunal for consideration if and guilty verdicts are reached. A U.N. statement said the list included requests for a national day of remembrance, provisions for health services for elderly survivors, and vocational training for those ordered by the regime into forced marriages. Vocational training would also extend to the children of such marriages.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP.
1 comment:
Before putting any hope of any justice from this ECCC let research part of our history as follow:
1. Khmer Issarak led by Achar Mean also known as Son Ngoc Minh who left Cambodia after Geneva Peace Accord in 1954 to Hanoi and stayed there till 1972 and left Hanoi to china for medical treatment and passed away there.
2. Who Khmer Viet Minh? who formec Khmer Viet Minh?
3. Why Khmer Viet Minh like Heng Samrin , Chea Sim and many more became Khmer Rouge between 1975-1979?
4. From Khmer Viet Minh became Khmer Rouge ( 1975-1979 ) and became high ranking officials of CPP like Heng Samrin, Chea Sim and many more?
So ECCC is a show trial and the master mind of killing fiel is still at large that to say CPP who form by late Ho Chi Minh in 1940s and officially declared as a Khmer People 's Revolution Party in 1951 led by Son Ngoc Minh.
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