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
B. IENG SARY
The Regulation of Marriage
1111. Through his various roles within the CPK, Ieng Sary participated in the regulation of marriage.
1112. The implementation of a system of marriages arranged by the Party was disseminated through CPK publications,4583 which Ieng Sary would have read. The implementation of the system was also reported to him in CPK telegrams.4584 On 11 October 1977, at the 32nd General Assembly of the United Nations, Ieng Sary said that the population of Cambodia was still far short of its capacity, and that the CPK's objective was to bring about a very rapid increase in population.4585 On 22 April 1978, in a letter to the United Nations General Assembly, Ieng Sary said that one of the CPK's goals was to increase Cambodia's population as quickly as possible.4586 Within Ieng Sary's own ministry, cadres were occasionally married in group ceremonies at which they were asked whether they accepted the other party.4587 Unmarried cadres were distrusted, and so marriages were sometimes proposed to them. However, they did not always accept.4588 Cadres who were married to non-Cambodians were also urged to remarry Cambodians.4589
Knowledge of Existence of an International Armed Conflict
1113. Ieng Sary was aware that an international armed conflict existed between Cambodia and Vietnam at all times from April 1975 until at least 6 January 1979.
1114. Ieng Sary personally visited Hanoi to negotiate the conflict.4590 He attended at least three Standing Committee meetings at which the status of the conflict with Vietnam was discussed.4591 The first of these meetings was held on 22 February 1976.4592 Further, Ieng Sary received a large number of telegrams regarding RAK military operations against Vietnamese forces along the border,4593 and communicated with Vietnamese,4594 Laotian,4595 Thai,4596 and French4597 representatives about these incidents. The first of these reports is dated 11 November 1975.4598 Ieng Sary was always informed of war-related matters due to his position as a member of the Standing Committee and Deputy Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs.4599
1115. In his capacity as Deputy Prime Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ieng Sary brought the conflict between Cambodia and Vietnam to the attention of the international community. He informed the United Nations Security Council of the conflict,4600 severed diplomatic relations with Vietnam due to the ongoing fighting,4601 and made various speeches on the topic to foreign diplomats in Phnom Penh,4602 at the Conference of Foreign Ministers of Non-aligned Countries in Belgrade,4603 at the Chinese embassy in Phnom Penh,4604 at a banquet for a delegation of the French Marxist-Leninist Communist Party,4605 at a press conference on a state visit to the Philippines,4606 in a statement on a state visit to Indonesia,4607 at a press conference at the 33rd session of the United Nations General Assembly,4608 and at the reception of the Yugoslavian ambassador to Cambodia.4609 Ieng Sary also mentioned the conflict in personal interviews with journalists.4610
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