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PHNOM PENH, A prominent survivor of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime said Tuesday she would no longer participate in the UN-backed tribunal, saying it had become a farce.
Theary Seng's decision came days before the November 21 start of the trial of four surviving Khmer Rouge leaders charged with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for their alleged roles in the estimated deaths of 2.2 million people between 1975-79.
Disappointment for victims
The troubled court has for months battled a rising tide of problems, and Seng said the UN must shoulder much of the blame for failing to tackle issues. 'The United Nations has abstained from fulfilling its duties, and more than that has helped (to) enable the impunity,' said Seng, whose parents were killed by the regime, and who had been recognized by the court as a victim, or civil party. Seng said corruption, apathy, UN inaction and interference by Cambodian politicians in the tribunal had motivated her decision.
'It's an issue of having enough of this sham, of having enough of this farce that is very much political theatre,' she said. 'I no longer want my name, the memories of my parents, of my family, to be soiled in this process that is no longer legitimate.'
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The Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI), which monitors the tribunal, urged UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to appoint an independent panel to investigate 'an unprecedented crisis of confidence' in the court following allegations of misconduct.
The OSJI report followed the surprise resignation on October 9 of German co-investigating judge Siegfried Blunk, who was accused of deliberately undermining the investigations into two further cases that are opposed by the Cambodian government.
In October, a decision by two international judges at the tribunal appeared to support long-running allegations of misconduct levelled against Blunk and his Cambodian counterpart You Bunleng.
They said Blunk and You Bunleng had backdated documents, refused to recognize civil party lawyers, prevented lawyers from accessing the case file, and denying victims the 'fundamental right to legal representation.'
OSJI said that written decision showed Blunk and You Bunleng had shown consistent willingness 'to violate basic legal principles in order to reach pre-determined legal outcomes.'
In its first case, the court last year sentenced the regime's security chief, Comrade Duch, to 30 years in prison after finding him guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Duch has appealed his conviction.
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Communist Party of Kampuchea
The communist Party of Kampuchea or Khmer Rouge between 1975-1979 was a combination of Khmer Viet Minh and a Paris students group, originally by 3 figures as follow:
These 3 figures came from difference background and ideologies as fellow:
1. Tou Samouth.
2. Noun Chea.
3. Pol Pot.
1.Tou Samouth was a former founder after Son Ngoc Minh of Khmer People’s Revolutionary Party created by Former Indochinese Communist Party led by Ho Chi Minh ( or Vietnam Worker’s Party ) in 1951.
( Khmer People’s Revolutionary Party was the old name of CPP during the First Indochina War 1946-1954 known as Khmer Issarak or Khmer Viet Minh under the leadership of Viet Minh and the real leader of the Viet Minh in Cambodia was Nguyen Thac Son but the public only knew Son Gnoc Minh and Tou Samouth, Sieu Heng and many more … .
2. Noun Chea was a former Thai Communist Party member before he joined and became member of Khmer Peopl’s Revolutionary Party during the Fist Indochina War.
3. Pol Pot one of Paris students group , the other like Ieng Sary ,Son Son and more .
After 1954 Geneva conference some of former Khmer Viet Minh followed yuon Viet Minh to go to Hanoi and some stayed behind ( in Cambodia ).
1. Those Khmer Viet Minh who followed yuon Viet Minh to Hanoi were Son Ngoc Minh, Pen Sovann and more .
2. Those who did not follow yuon Viet Min to Hanoi and stayed in Cambodia such as Tou Samouth, So Phim,Rous Yim and more .
Those former Khmer Viet Minh fighters who stayed in Cambodia in 1954 under the efforts of Tou Samout, So Phim and more joined Pol Pot ( a Paris students group ) to form Communist party of Kampuchea in 1960 ( not in 1951 as many Cambodian and westerners understand even Englihs Wikipea written .
But the communist Party of Kampuchea in 1960 formed by Tou Samouth, Nuon Chea and Pol Pot used the party name as Khmer Worker’s Party as yuon ( Vietnam Worker’s Party ).
After Tou Samuth was arrested and killed in 1962, In 1966 the Khmer Worker’s Party was changed to Communist Party of Kampuchea under the leadership of Pol Pot combined with former Khmer Viet Minh fighters like So Phim , Rous Yim and many more.
So this is a short biography of Communist Party of Kampuchea which did not create by Ho Chi Minh as Ho Chi Min Created CPP ( Khmer People’s Revolutionary Party in 1951 ) but half of Khmer Rouge between 1975-1979 were former Khmer Viet Minh and a lot of these Khmer Viet Minh became villages, districts chiefs and Zones Secratries as So Phim in Eastern Zone and Rous Yim in Northern Zone.
Between 1975-1979 these 2 senior Khmer Viet Minh So Phim and Rous Yim were in law.
For So Phim beside Eastern zone secretary So Phim was brother number of in Angkar between 1975-1977.
Angkar between 1975-1979 were:
1. Pol Pot Secretary General of Communist Party of Kampuchea.
2. Nuon Chea Vice secretary General of Communist Party of Kampuchea.
3. Ieng Sary.
4. So Phim.
5. Son Sen.
6. Ta Mok.
Note: Sihanouk and Khieu Samphan are nominal heads of states between 1975-1979.
Noun Chea and Sieu Heng are cousins but to many believe that they are nephew and uncle.
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