Closing Order of Case 002 against Senior KR Leaders Nuon Chea, Khieu Samphan, Ieng Sary, Ieng Thirith

In light of the HISTORIC (!) start of MOST COMPLEX (sic!) trial hearings beginning on 27 June 2011 and again ANOTHER HISTORIC (!) START of this same MOST COMPLEX (sic!) on 21 Nov. 2011 of Case 002 against the surviving Khmer Rouge senior leaders Nuon Chea, Khieu Samphan, Ieng Sary and Ieng Thirith, KI Media is posting installations of the public document of the Closing Order of Case 002.  The Closing Order of the Co-Investigating Judges forms the basic document from which all the parties (Co-Prosecutors, Co-Lead Lawyers for all civil parties, Defense Lawyers) will be making their arguments before the Trial Chamber judges (one Cambodian President, 2 Cambodian Judges, 2 UN judges).  Up until now, the hearings involving these four surviving senior Khmer Rouge leaders have been in the Pre-Trial Chamber over issues of pre-trial detention and jurisdictional issues.  Beginning in June 2011, the Trial Chamber will hear the substantive (sic!) arguments over the criminal charges (e.g. genocide, crimes against humanity, penal code of 1956 - sic!).  Available in Khmer and French. Contact the ECCC for a free copy. 

 

CLOSING ORDER

of Co-Investigating Judges You Bunleng and Marcel Lemonde

15 September 2010

 Phnom Kraol Security Centre

 

Executions and Disappearances

636.                  According to one witness, the prisoners who were sent to Phnom Kraol had little chance to

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

survival. Former prisoners recall how fellow prisoners were beaten to death and witnessed people being taken away at night who were never seen again.²⁷⁸⁹ One witness, when referring to K-11 states: "[w]hen I was at the worksite, I saw about 30 people transported in and out every two or three days. The victims were transported out for execution" ²¹⁹⁰ One witness states that a prison guard from K-11 told him that prisoners were only kept for two or three days before they were being executed.²⁷⁹¹

637.                  Executions were usually carried out at Trapeang Pring,²⁷⁹² an execution site located about 4 kilometres from Phnom Kraol on the road towards Kratie Province.²⁷⁹³ Prisoners were driven in groups to the execution site.²⁷⁹⁴ One witness, who lived closely to the killing site, confirms that about 200 male and female victims were buried at a pit at Trapeang Pring.²⁷⁹⁵

On other occasions, prisoners would be killed within the prison vicinity.²⁷⁹⁶

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638.                  Eight (8) civil parties were declared admissible with regards to Phnom Kraol Security Center²⁷⁹⁷, since the alleged crimes described in the application were considered as being more likely than not to be true, pursuant to Internal Rule 23 bis (4). These civil parties have provided sufficient elements tending to establish prima facie personal harm as a direct consequence of the crimes committed at Phnom Kraol Security Center.