Cambodia Must Provide Full Cooperation to New Judges at Genocide Court, Ban Stresses
New York, Mar 30 2012
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has decided to initiate a selection process for new international judges for the United Nations-backed Cambodia genocide tribunal, and stressed that the Government must provide full cooperation so they can carry out their duties.
Recent months have witnessed the resignations of the international co-investigating judge, Siegfried Blunk, and the reserve international co-investigating judge, Laurent Kasper-Ansermet, from the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC).
Judge Blunk cited attempted interference by Government officials in the court’s proceedings, while Judge Kasper-Ansermet stated that he was being prevented from properly and freely carrying out his duties at the tribunal, which was set up as an independent court using a mixture of Cambodian and foreign personnel.
“The circumstances that have given rise to these two resignations remain worrying,” said a <"http://www.un.org/sg/statements/index.asp?nid=5961">statement issued by Mr. Ban’s spokesperson.
Both judges were working on cases 003 and 004, which involve former senior members of the Khmer Rouge military suspected of being responsible for the deaths of thousands of people.
“The Secretary-General believes that it is essential that the judicial process in relation to cases 003 and 004 be brought back onto a positive course,” said the statement.
Mr. Ban has decided to initiate a process for the selection of a new international co-investigating judge, and a new reserve international co-investigating judge, in accordance with the provisions of the agreement signed by the UN and Cambodia in setting up the court.
At the same time, their selection by the Secretary-General will not by itself fully address the concerns that have arisen in regard to the judicial process in these cases, the statement noted.
“It is essential that the Royal Government of Cambodia extend full cooperation to the new judges once it has been informed by the Secretary-General of their selection,” it stated, adding that the new judges should be promptly appointed by the Cambodian authorities.
The new international co-investigation judge, the statement added, should be afforded “every assistance and full cooperation” to carry out his or her functions.
“The Secretary-General encourages the Royal Government of Cambodia and the international community to view the selection of the new judges as an opportunity to move forward beyond recent events, and enable the ECCC to carry out its obligations in full by considering all of the cases before it in accordance with international standards of fairness” the statement added.
Mr. Ban also encouraged all partners to provide financial contributions to enable the court, which faces a serious funding challenge, to concentrate on the critical judicial work at hand.
The ECCC is designated to try those deemed most responsible for crimes and serious violations of Cambodian and international law between 17 April 1975 and 6 January 1979 during the Khmer Rouge regime.
14 comments:
Why the real Khmer Rouge leader Norodom Sihanouk aka ( SDACH PEAL ស្ដាចន៍ពាល) did not attend at the Khmer Rouge Court ?
为什么真正的红色高棉领导人诺罗敦·西哈努克又名（SDACH PEALស្ដាចន៍ពាល）没有出席在红色高棉法庭?
Pourquoi le grand chef khmer rouge Norodom Sihanouk alias
(Sdach Peal ស្ដាចន៍ពាល) est toujours absent au Tribunal Khmer
Rouge?
Qui étaient caché derrière l'assassinat de Haing S. Ngor (The Killing Fields) à Los Angeles en 1996?
Etaient-ils le parti au pouvoir cambodgien ou bien le parti d'opposition qui ont organisé de cet terrorisme?
Ou bien le vieux chef khmer rouge qui a écrit le scénario pour assassiner son adversaire cinéma politique?
Mr. Ban needs to exert stronger and more pressure on PM Hun Sen to stay clear of and not interfere with the functioning of the ECCC first instead of wasting his time trying to find a new international co-investigation judge who will not be able to work with Mr. You Bun Leng who takes orders directly from the Cambodian government.
Mr. Ban needs to show leadership by demanding the respect of the independence of the ECCC. When that happens, money to finance the court's work will flow in.
Don't put a cart before a horse!
Mr. Ban also knows very well that the problem is not about the selection of the international co-investigation judge, but about whether to proceed to case 003 and 004. Thus, make up your mind, the UN!
A free advice to Mr. Ban: If you want a judge who can work well with Mr. You Bun Leng, appoint the one who does not want the court to proceed past case 002; otherwise, it won't work even though you appoint the judges from either China or Vietnam.
Pissed off
Who were behind the assassination of Haing S. Ngor (The Killing Fields) at Los Angeles in 1996?
Is the party in power of the Cambodia or the opposing party who organized this global terror?
Or the old head chief of KHMER ROUGE who have written this scenario to murder his cinema political opponent?
តើលោក(ហាំងង៉ោ)ដែលជាតួកុនខ្មែររឿង(វាលពិឃាត
របស់ហូលីវុដភាពយន្ត)
ត្រូវបានបាញ់សម្លាប់នៅអាមេរីកនោះជាស្នាដៃរបស់ភេរវកម្មឆ្លងដែននៃបក្សនយោបាយកាន់អំណាចឬក៏ជាស្នាដៃបក្សនយោបាយប្រឆាំង?
ឬក៏ជាស្នាប្រហុករបស់ស្ដាចន៍ឪពួកវាដែល
ជាមេឃាតករជាតិខ្មែរ?
As long as some Khmer or Cambodian still not learning that this is Hanoi ECCC and it is all about youn Hanoi ambition to put Lao and Cambodia under yuon annex and exterminate ethnic Cambodian from our homeland just look at million of illegal yuon migrants’ kept inflowing into Cambodian as part of Indochina Federation.
Khmer must learn from real Khmer history and look at other countries around our country they all gone as follow:
1. Champa country gone by yuon Hanoi.
2. Prey Norkor gone by yuon Hanoi.
3. Kampuchea-Krom gone by yuon Hanoi.
4. Lao gone by yuon Hanoi.
5. Cambodia fully in yuon Hanoi hands.
6. Thailand will be next .
Wake up all Khmer do not be fooled and misleaded by this Hanoi ECCC under the name of seeking justice for 1.7 million Cambodian who were killed between 1975-1979.
Speaking of "Cave in", may I reproduce my comment from the other posting for KI-Media to please entertain this issue for our readers please?
Is KI-Media really caving in to a couple of Viet trollers who have been harassing, trashing, dissing, and insulting Khmer since God knows when here on KI-Media?
Are we really shaping Khmer up as one intended or punishing Khmer in the process?
What in God's name are we doing?
Sincerely,
Bai Kork
6:12 AM Bai Kork
KI-Media staff are a bunch of former Khmer Rouge, have you not noticed, anything that seems anti-Khmer is YOUN, and anyone looking down on Khmer are 100% YOUN.
If Pol Pot is still alive, KI-Media staff wouldnt hesitate to take you away at night and shoot you from behind!
We Cambodian victims can blame Hun Sen for blocking ECCC court process, political interferences but Hun Sen alone can’t do as they wish if there are no green light from US who has been behind this ECCC,We must blame US who has been behind UN in this Hanoi ECCC. As I said Hun Sen alone can't do everything they want to if US behind UN did not turn blind eyes to this Hanoi ECCC just look at the deal between this Hanoi ECCC and US behind UN like not allow Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan to talk before 1975 and after 1979, how about K 5 is Hanoi genocide why Khmer cannot talk about this in this ECCC?
So this ECCC in Cambodia is Hanoi-US ECCC covering their both war crimes and crimes against Cambodian .
All Khmer must know that at least Khmer or Cambodian were killed at least 5 million between 1970s-1980s with K 5 plan and continued to killed every day under the name of land grabbing, land concession and country development under the so-called Hun Sen regime which created by late Ho Chi Minh in 1951 known as the Khmer People’s revolutionary party led by Son Ngoc Minh or better known as Achar Mean who left Cambodia after Geneva conference in 1954 and lived in Hanoi tilled 1972 and passed away in Chinese hospital because of stroke ( high blood pressure ) in 1972 as some website has confirmed.
Why Khmer victims can not talk about K 5 plan odered by yuon Hanoi and immplemented by Hun Sen in 1980s and bring this bunch of killers asked Nuon Chea have been demanding for so many time?
Since Mr. Ban Ki-Moon is a Japanese citizen, would the Japanese people and government blame Mr. UN Secretary General for not doing a good job to protect the Khmer/Cambodian victims of Killing Fields?
Japanese government and people have granted several millions of dollars to ECCC. We wonder the Japanese government and people might be very disappointed with Mr. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon.
Japan is the biggest and the most generous donor to Cambodia in the world.
Anyone? What would you think of that?
Maybe, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon does not know much about the situations of ECCC and Hanoi are behind of this. We don't want to concentrate on the U.S. issues that the U.S. bombs were dropped in Cambodia during the America War against the Communist Vietnam expansion to South Vietnam (which is Khmer Krom or lower Cambodia). We should give credit to American if American want to rebuild Cambodia as what America had done terribly wrong to Cambodia. America is the most generous country in the world. Don't forget that.
Just focus on the real enemies of Vietnam who are very dangerous to Cambodia nowadays. Just focus on the bad Hanoi's interference to ECCC to block the investigation on the real problems coming from Hanoi who involved the Killing Fields because of the Indochina, the Vietnamese dirty plan or scam to put Cambodia and Laos to Vietnamese annex. Vietnam's threat to China is to accelerate the vast Vietnamese population. Vietnam is a very sick nation on the planet. Vietnamese ill leaders in Hanoi have gone crazy and think like comparing themselves [Vietnam] to American who took land from American Indian, Native American. That ain't going to happen. Vietnamese leaders in Hanoi are crazy to use a dumb Khmer leader Hun Sen to kill Khmer/Cambodian people in the different strategy as step-by-step plan and send many Vietnamese advisers and comrades to make friends with Hun Sen (and other other dumb Khmer/Cambodian monkeys) in order to occupied deeper inside Cambodia, and send the millions of Vietnamese folks (after the Hanoi leaders lied and to them and spread the words about the opportunities in Cambodia).
So, the U.S., UN, EU Unions, Japan, Australia, Canada, S. Korea, and so on should know the ill-intentions, dirty plans, tricks and genocides of Vietnamese ill leaders in Hanoi toward to Cambodian/Khmer people and nation.
Khmer Yeurng
I NEED TO CUT YOU HEAD BAN!!
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