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| Judge Laurent Kasper-Ansermet |
22 Jan 2012
By Pen Bona
Radio France Internationale
Translated from Khmer by Soch
At the end, the Cambodian Supreme Council of Magistracy (SMC) refused to nominate Judge Laurent Kasper-Ansermet as the International Co-Investigating Judge as was requested by the UN. This refusal led to a verbal clash between the UN and the Cambodian government whereby, the UN Secretary-general accused Cambodia of breaching its agreement, meanwhile a Cambodian official scolded the UN of issuing wrong comments that will affect discussions between the two sides on Tuesday. This is a new tension for the KR Tribunal.
The UN reported that the Cambodian government officially informed the UN on Thursday that the SMC decided not nominate Judge Laurent Kasper-Ansermet as the International Co-Investigating Judge as requested by the UN. This decision was based on the alleged judge’s ethics violation. Martin Nesirky, spokesman for the UN Secretary-general, declared on Friday that the decision not to nominate Judge Laurent Kasper-Ansermet is a breach of the agreement between the government and the UN signed in 2003. Article 5 of this agreement stipulates that in the case of vacancy for the position of the International Co-Investigating Judge, the person who will be nominated to this position will be the reserved International Co-Investigating Judge. Martin Nesirky still pushes on the Cambodian government to nominate Judge Laurent Kasper-Ansermet.
In reaction to this problem, Keo Remy, the vice-chairman of the Press and Quick Reaction Unit (PQRU) of the Council of Ministers, expressed his regret about the successive comments made by Martin Nesirky. He told RFI today that Martin Nesirky shouldn’t comment too much about this problem ahead of Tuesday’s official meeting. Keo Remy said that Martin Nesirky’s comment is considered as a pressure on Hun Xen’s regime.
It should be noted that Swiss Judge Laurent Kasper-Ansermet issued two official statements regarding Case 003/004 while he was not officially nominated yet. This could stem the refusal of his nomination. After the Cambodian government issued its decision, the UN will send David Scheffer, the newly-nominated UN expert on the KR Tribunal, to Cambodia to discuss this problem with Xok An, the minister of the Council of Ministers.
The meeting which is planned for Tuesday will focus on several problems, including the nomination of the International Co-Investigating Judge which is now the most pressing problem. However, Keo Remy indicated that Cambodia will not comment prior to the meeting.
4 comments:
UN still trying to win against Dictator Hun Sen? Dont you know Hun Sen said, if anyone dares to remove him, he will give a warehouse of weapons! What are you waiting for UN? Aim for the head!!
In an effort to integrate Cambodia into the Indochinese Federation, Vietnam has deployed many tricks in Cambodia, particularly creating the Khmer Vietminh to destabilize Cambodia.
Does international law allow one Country to capture the children of its neighbors and brainwash them and later use them to attack their own Country and commit the mass killing of their own people?
Vietnam did exactly like that to Cambodia. That's why approximately 3 million Cambodians have perished from 1975 to 1979 because of Vietnam's bad intention toward Cambodia. Vietnam has created Khmer Vietminh and brainwashed them to make Khmer fight with Khmer, to make Khmer kill each other.
In addition, hundred of thousands of Khmer people died in the 80s due to Vietnam’s deployment of the K5 project.
If the killings during the Pol Pot’s era were not so clear that most of the killings were committed by the Khmer Vietminh, the K5 project on the other hand has explicitly reflected Vietnam’s vicious intention toward Cambodia because Cambodia at the time was fully controlled by Vietnam, which was the chief architect of the K5 project. The K5 project has caused hundreds of thousands of Khmer people dead mostly were men.
The United Nations should look into this unique case of Vietnam’s interference in Cambodia. It should examine at present Vietnam’s dominance in Cambodia as well.
Our people lamented that why Khmer people always suffer?
Because Vietnam has its own plan of making Cambodian people suffer by initiating war, making Khmer fight with Khmer, making Khmer kill each other, and exploit it.
Vietnam has always found some dumb Khmers such as Hun Sen to carry out strictly its orders – no matter what the costs to Khmer people and Cambodia.
For instance, why did Hun Sen implement those bilateral treaties with Vietnam and defy the 1991 Paris peace accord?
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I really feel sorry for UN who has been in between Hanoi and US pressures about this Hanoi-US ECCC in Cambodia.
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