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 (Indictment).  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 November 2011, the Trial Chamber will hear the substantive (sic!) arguments over the criminal charges (genocide, crimes against humanity, penal code of 1956, etc., only the Phase I Movement in April 1975).  Available in Khmer, English and French. Contact the ECCC for a free copy. 

 

CLOSING ORDER

of Co-Investigating Judges You Bunleng and Marcel Lemonde

15 September 2010

 

IX. ROLES OF THE CHARGED PERSONS

 

A. NUON CHEA

 

 Participation in the Common Purpose

 

The Regulation of Marriage

991. Through his various roles within the CPK, Nuon Chea participated in the regulation of marriage in Cambodia. troops, military attacks and causalities, via the telegrams that were sent from CPK troops on the ground. Some of these telegrams survive and show that he was copied on many of them between 26 January 1976 and 22 of August 1978. Their frequency increased, occasionally reaching several a day, with the escalation of the armed conflict.⁴¹⁰⁶ He also received telegrams related to international relations and diplomacy where the conflict was mentioned.⁴¹⁰⁷ Finally, Nuon Chea gave speeches⁴¹⁰⁸ and led political meetings including with RAK members, where he talked about the international armed conflict with Vietnam.⁴¹⁰⁹