Sok Khemara, VOA Khmer | Phnom Penh
Cambodia has approved two UN-appointed judges to the Khmer Rouge tribunal, including a replacement investigating judge, a position under intense pressure and scrutiny at the heart of allegations of political interference in the court’s work, sources confirmed Monday.
Sources close to the tribunal said an American judge named Mark Harmon, a former prosecutor for the international war crimes tribunal in Yugoslavia, has been approved as investigating judge on the international side of the hybrid court. Caroline Charpentier, a French judge who served at the international criminal court for Kosovo, will be the reserve investigating judge, according to sources who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the appointments.
Those positions have been vacated multiple times by judges who said they could not do their jobs due to political interference or obstruction on the part of their Cambodian counterparts. Most pressing for the office of investigating judges are cases 003 and 004, which would require further indictments of an already financially beleaguered court and which are opposed by Prime Minister Hun Sen and other senior government officials.
Sources close to the court say both judges have been approved by the Supreme Council of Magistracy and signed off on by the king, a requirement in Cambodia’s constitutional monarchy.
A UN official confirmed that the international body had submitted two names to the Cambodian government but could not confirm whether they were approved.
James Goldston, executive director of the US-based Open Society Justice Initiative, which monitors the tribunal, said the new judges will face old challenges at the court and “increasing difficulties” in pursuing cases 003 and 004.
Former investigating judge Siegfried Blunk resigned from that position in October 2011, claiming public objections to those two cases by top officials made it impossible to do his job. His replacement, Laurent Kasper-Ansermet, resigned in May, claiming he had been prevented from his duties by obstructions within the Cambodian office of investigating judges.
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AH HUN DEN IL CHERCHE ENCORE POUR EMBROUILLER LES PISTES AU NOM D'UN ROI DE LA MAFIA.HUN SEN LE DICTATEUR DU CAMBODGE . HUN SEN CHÉAR KAUNN MI SAM PHOEUNG YOUN HANOI. HUN SEN VOLE LES TERRES DE SON PEUPLE ET EN VENTE AU VIÉTCONG OU VIÉTMING HANOI. HUN SEN UN TRAITRE DU PEUPLE CAMBODGIEN.
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Khmer history:
- In the 1940, 1950 Vietnam has created Khmer Vietminh and brainwashed them.
- Vietnam invaded Cambodia after March 18th 1970 along with the Khmer Vietminh. Vietnam taught the Khmer Rouge to fight Lon Nol’s regime. Vietnam made Khmer fight with Khmer, made Khmer kill each other.
- After April 17th 1975, Khmer Vietminh and Khmer Rouge started killing Khmer people.
- After the mass killing committed by the Khmer Vietminh and the Khmer Rouge was completed, Vietnam came in, pretending to save Khmer people from the Khmer rouge.
- After Vietnam took over Cambodia on January 7 1979, the killing resumed through the K5 project which was orchestrated systematically by Vietnam.
In brief: Vietnam is the real Khmer killers by using the Khmer Vietminh to kill Khmers. Khmer people must stop wondering why Khmer people have always suffered.
The creator of Khmer suffering is Vietnam. Look at the current situation, how many million Vietnamese have already infiltrated into Cambodia after its invasion and how much Khmer natural resource have these new Vietnamese comers destroyed?
Khmer people have no bad Karma. The “bad karma” has been generated by Vietnam in an attempt to accomplish its goal of swallowing Cambodia, like Vietnam did to Champa and Kampuchea Krom.
Wake up Khmer people and look at the creator of the bad Karma Vietnam in the eyes. This monster Vietnam has never wanted Cambodia to live peacefully. And don’t confuse with the present peace in Cambodia. This peace has a heavy tag price: Khmer people will become a minority in Cambodia in the near future, and then Khmer people will cry and say “Khmer has bad Karma or “Khmer mearn Kam”.
Where is the other shoe?
ស្បែកជើងម្ខាងទៀតនៅឯណា?
Bug Eater
UN again? Where is UN, US is there. Now US works with Yuon, Hun Sen's boss, so the answer is another joke on the show again.
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