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Bridget Di Certo
The Phnom Penh Post
Lawyers representing Case 004 suspect Ta An said yesterday they had received instructions from their client to take “the necessary action to have the investigation against me dismissed”.
In a statement, Richard Rogers and Mom Luch said the investigation into the government-opposed Case 004 had reached an impasse.
“In the current circumstances, it is difficult to see how the ECCC can provide the suspect with a meaningful opportunity to clear his name,” the statement says.
Speaking to the Post yesterday, Rogers said ongoing turmoil in the Office of the Co-Investigating Judges had affected his client’s rights.
“We are not taking a position on who was right or who was wrong; our concern is that there is an investigation and that it functions properly, and there certainly hasn’t been that for at least six months,” he said. “There have been different approaches between the investigating judges and also the pre-trial chamber judges, and it seems to be disagreement about how this case would move.”
Rogers said the identity of his client was well known and his name had been in the public domain for some time.
“He now carries all the weight of a man accused of mass atrocities, which has the potential to damage his health and security,” he said, adding that his client was 79 years old and in poor health.
The former Khmer Rouge zone deputy secretary is the only one of the five known suspects in cases 003 and 004 to have retained legal counsel.
Rogers said his appointment as defence lawyer had not been smooth, but he had not been denied access to the case file.
Swiss judge Laurent Kasper-Ansermet informed all the suspects in the two cases of their rights before he quit the court at the beginning of this month alleging “egregious dysfunctions” at the tribunal.
Kasper-Ansermet described a situation of serious misconduct at the tribunal in a lengthy note published on the court’s website.
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Every Khmer need equal justice regardless they were killed before 1975, between 1975-1979 and after 1979.
Every drop of Khmer blood must be written correctly into Khmer history pages, not Hanoi or US historic pages.
This ECCC not only Hanoi ECCC but also US behind UN having part in this show trial to cover up other genocide, war crimes and mass atrocities committed by Hanoi known as Indochina Federation to swallow Cambodia as they did to Lao and to exterminate Khmer ethnic as Noun Chea and Khieu Samphan said, for US's massive killing and war crimes known as US B 52 bombing in 1969 and carpet bombing in 1973.
That why this Hanoi and US ECCC in Cambodia not allowed Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan to say anything before 1975 and after 1979.
But for Khmer and for real Khmer history Khmer must not forget Indochina Federation and and US B 52 bombing in Cambodia in 1960s-1970s. Whenever , wherever any Cambodian killed before 1975, during 195-1979 and after 1979 such as K 5 plan in 1980s in Cambodia they and their family need justice as well so this ECCC must not stop and interfere Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan from speaking out because Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan want to talk before during and after 1975-1979.
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