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 (or, Indictment). The Closing Order of the Co-Investigating Judges forms the basic document from which all the parties (co-prosecutors, lead co-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 is hearing the substantive (sic!) arguments over the criminal charges   (genocide against Buddhists, genocide against Vietnamese, genocide against Cham Muslims, crimes against humanity at the 200 prisons, mass crimes in countless killing fields, Eastern Zone purges, penal code of 1956, etc.) of only the Phase I Movement in April 1975.

 Available in Khmer, English and French. Contact the ECCC for a free copy.  

 

CLOSING ORDER (or, INDICTMENT)

of Co-Investigating Judges You Bunleng and Marcel Lemonde

15 September 2010

 

IX. ROLES OF THE CHARGED PERSONS

C. KHIEU SAMPHAN⁴⁶¹⁶

Participation in the Common Purpose

 

The Regulation of Marriage

1198.        Through his various roles within the CPK, Khieu Samphan participated in the regulation of marriage. The implementation of a system of marriages arranged by the Party was disseminated through CPK publications⁴⁸⁶⁸ which Khieu Samphan would have read. Furthermore, there is evidence that forced marriages occurred in offices within the Ministry of Commerce.⁴⁸⁶⁹

Knowledge of the Existence of an International Armed Conflict

1199.        Khieu Samphan was aware that an international armed conflict between Cambodia and Vietnam existed at all times from April 1975 until at least 6 January 1979. He was kept appraised of the military situation and negotiations with Vietnam by his participation in the CPK Standing Committee meetings and his access to the meeting minutes.⁴⁸⁷⁰ Khieu Samphan made public speeches and statements about the international armed conflict both during the CPK regime⁴⁸⁷¹ and afterwards.⁴⁸⁷²