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| Youk Chhang, right, director of the Cambodian Documentation Center (DC-Cam) watches on a tribunal's staff, center, putting small packs of microfilm into a box at DC-Cam office of the capital Phnom Penh. (Photo: AP) |
Monday, 23 January 2012
Kong Sothanarith, VOA Khmer | Phnom Penh
"Nearly half a million documents have been handed over to the courts."
The Khmer Rouge tribunal on Monday heard testimony from an official of the Documentation Center of Cambodia, who said the hundreds of thousands of documents submitted to the UN-backed court have been carefully scrutinized for authenticity.
Vann Than Peou Dara, deputy director of the center, was summoned after defense attorneys for Khmer Rouge leaders on trial expressed doubt over the documentation.
Documents are carefully examined and verified by their sources before they are admitted to the court, he told the court.
Defense attorneys subsequently said their doubts would not be allayed by the deputy, and they called for the appearance of the head of the center, Chhang Youk.
The Documentation Center has collected nearly 1 million documents on the Khmer Rouge since it began as a field office for Yale University genocide researchers in 1995.
Nearly half a million documents have been handed over to the courts, Vann Than Peou Dara said Monday.
Many of those documents were preserved by Vietnamese forces after the ouster of the Khmer Rouge in 1979, he said.
Monday’s hearing coincided with the arrival of the UN’s new special expert for the tribunal, David Sheffer, who is expected to address an ongoing controversy in the court’s office of investigating judges.
The UN-appointed judge Siegfried Blunk resigned last year, citing political interference in two cases before the court, and the Cambodian government has so far refused to approve the nomination of his replacement, Laurent Kasper-Ansermet.
Scheffer met with tribunal officials on Monday and is expected to meet Cabinet Minister Sok An, who is in charge of the tribunal for the government, as well.
6 comments:
Youk Chhang,
Youk Chhang is a foreinger tool or not please read and judge the following:
"Nearly half a million documents have been handed over to the courts."
from Youk Chhang documents centre to charge Noun Chea and Khieu Samphan against genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
but not even 1 document from Youk Chhang has been handed over to the court to charge other genocides , war cirmes and crimes against humanity committed by Hanoi and US known as US B 52 carpet bombing in Cambodia and Indochina Federation to put Lao and Cambodia under yuon annex and exterminate ecthnic Cambodian.
So obviously Youk Chhang has used the word seeking justice between 1975-1979 to cover up other genocides, war crimes, crimes against hunmanity and mass atrocities commmitted by US and Hanoi.
Chhang Kouk is a Yuon's slave.
Youk Chhang is nothing but the running dog of the foreigner. He gives a hand to Viet............to destroy Khmer........Keep it in the Cambodian history.
Chhang Song and Chhang Youk are Cambodia's parasites.
One has to wonder why the Khmer Rouge tribunal is accepting only one research done by AH Youk Chhang? No fool in the world would accept only one research on anything as conclusive evidence! I like to see more research done before reaching conclusion! The research documentation done by AH YOUK CHHANG is just an extension of the Vietcong research! So all the killing was done Pol Pot? Come on! I wasn't born yesterday!
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