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

 

Knowledge of the Existence of an International Armed Conflict

1292.        Ieng Thirith was aware that an international armed conflict between Cambodia and Vietnam existed at all times from April 1975 until at least 6 January 1979.

1293.        Ieng Thirith was aware of the military situation through her diplomatic role,⁵¹³⁶ her family connections, and her related associations with other CPK leaders. Ieng Thirith was copied in at least one telegram dated 11 November 1975, reporting on the military situation in Sector 23, the movement of the population from large cities on the border, and the medical situation.⁵¹³⁷ The defence situation was discussed at meetings in which she participated in 1976 and 1978,⁵¹³⁸ and there were references to the armed conflict on the radio.

Ieng Thirith confirmed that she knew of the existence of the conflict throughout and until the end of the regime in an interview she gave to a journalist in 1980.⁵¹⁴⁰