New judges [-Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, the two resignations may be worrying, but your insistance to work with Hun Xen in a DEEP CONCERN!!!]

01 April 2012
Reuters

New York—U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has announced he would appoint two new judges for Cambodia’s troubled U.N.-backed Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal and urged the government of the Southeast Asian nation to cooperate with them.Swiss judge Laurent Kasper-Ansermet quit as reserve co-investigating judge of the tribunal earlier this month, while his predecessor, German judge Siegfried Blunk, left the post in October.Critics have accused Cambodia of trying to stop further probes of cases tied to the communist-inspired Khmer Rouge’s rule of the country between 1975 and 1979, in which as many as 2.2 million Cambodians were killed.”The circumstances that have given rise to these two resignations remain worrying,” Ban’s office said in a statement.The Cambodian government has issued no comment on the resignations. But Prime Minister Hun Sen, himself a former Khmer Rouge soldier, in 2010 told Ban that more indictments were “not allowed” and has also said he would be happy if the court left.Kasper-Ansermet had been pursuing two unidentified suspects in the highly controversial cases known as 003 and 004.”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 Ban’s office, adding that he would appoint a new international co-investigating judge and a new reserve co-investigating judge for the U.N.-backed court.”Their selection by the Secretary-General will not by itself, however, fully address the concerns that have arisen in regard to the judicial process in these cases,” the statement said.