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) make 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
D. IENG THIRITH
Participation in the Common Purpose
Security
centres and execution sites
Knowledge and Implementation of this Policy
Nationwide
1260. While there is no evidence that Ieng Thirith personally visited any security centres
or execution sites, she knew that internal and external enemies of the CPK were
being identified and killed through her position as Minister of Social Affairs;
her associations with other CPK leaders; her knowledge of and involvement in
S-21; and her participation in meetings attended by zone secretaries, sectors
secretaries and military cadres.
1261. On 30 August 1977, Ieng Thirith
attended a banquet to honour a delegation from Burma, where Ieng Sary made a
speech which discussed this policy, "During the past 8 months our
Cambodian people and the Revolutionary Army have striven seethingly and
arduously ... to successfully defend and protect our national independence,
sovereignty and territorial integrity, as well as the fruits of the revolution
and the people's state administration of equality and justice by smashing all
maneuvers of enemies of all stripes" 5054
1262. At different times, Ieng Thirith has admitted that she was aware of the
killing of enemies during the CPK regime. In an interview in 1980, she explains
that the arrest and subsequent execution Ruos Nhim (Northwest Zone Secretary
and member of the Standing Committee) and the suicide of Sao Phim (East Zone
Secretary and member of the Standing Committee) in June 1978 occurred as a
result of her report on the situation in the Northwest to Pol Pot. In light of
that report, an inquiry was made and it was found that Sao Phim was a
Vietnamese agent and that Ruos Nhim was in collusion with Sao Phim.5055
In the same interview she claimed that
"agents were infiltrated in our ranks including high ranks".5056 In 1991, in another interview with a journalist from
the French newspaper Le Nouvel Observateur, she recognized that "there were certainly
excesses like in every revolution" and that
"alleged purges against alleged traitors possibly occurred" in the DK era "but not a genocide" 5051
1263.
At least since October 1975, Ieng Thirith was aware of the CPK policy to recall
and reeducate overseas based Cambodians to Cambodia through her diplomatic
role,5058 family connections, and her associations with other CPK
leaders, in particular with her husband Ieng Sary.
She discussed this matter with one of the cadres of her Ministry5059
and some of these returnees were eventually sent to work at the Ministry of
Social Affairs after their
reeducation.5060
1264.
Ieng Thirith was
also aware of the arrests of Vietnamese soldiers, since their confessions were
recorded for propaganda purposes and broadcast on the radio.5061
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