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) 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.

 
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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 

The Regulation of Marriage

1292.        Through her various roles in the CPK, Ieng Thirith participated in the regulation of marriage.

1293.        The system of marriages arranged by the Party was discussed in CPK publications⁵¹³² which Ieng Thirith would have read and distributed within her Ministry.⁵¹³³

1294.        Ieng Thirith arranged marriages of members of her Ministry staff. A former high-level cadre of Office K-2, [REDACTED], stated "Ieng Thirith revealed to me that she wanted me to marry another man, who worked with her husband Ieng Sary",⁵¹³⁴ and in another interview "She also told me she did not want me to marry [REDACTED] in the first place, but another man who worked with my husband; but she thought I would not be interested in him because he was Khmer Leu" ⁵¹³⁵

 

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