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.
Available in Khmer, English and French. Contact the ECCC for a free copy.
CLOSING ORDER (or, INDICTMENT)
of Co-Investigating Judges You Bunleng and Marcel Lemonde
15 September 2010
I. NUON CHEA
1570. Nuon Chea was born on 7 July 1926 in Voat Kor village, Voat Kor subdistrict, Sangke district, Battambang province.5323 At his initial appearance, he gave Lao Kim Lorn as his name at birth, adding that this name "had not been used for a long time".5324 He is the third of nine siblings. His father, Lao Liv, who was of Han descent, was a corn trader in Battambang. His mother, Dos Peanh, was a seamstress. She too was part Chinese, but Nuon Chea was raised in a multi-cultural environment, speaking Khmer.5325
1571. Nuon Chea is married to Ly Kimseng and is the father of three children, and one adopted child.
1572. After completing primary school, Nuon Chea attended secondary school in Battambang. However, his schooling was interrupted by World War II when Thailand, an ally of Japan, occupied Battambang province in 1941. He studied Thai and moved to Bangkok5326 where he stayed with Khmer monks at a Buddhist temple.5327 He began law school (but dropped out) at Bangkok's Thamassat University under the name Runglert Laodi,5328 and also worked as a part-time clerk in the Thai Ministry of Finance. Later, between 1945 and 1949, he worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, before moving back to Cambodia in 1950 and becoming involved in revolutionary activities.5329
1573. Nuon Chea's political activities until 1979 are set out in the section of the Closing Order regarding the Role of the Charged Person.
1574. When the Vietnamese arrived in January 1979, Nuon Chea and Pol Pot met Ieng Sary and Khieu Samphan in Pursat province.5330 In the Central Committee meeting of February or March 1979, Nuon Chea urged Pol Pot to remain Party Secretary. He toured Cambodia and distributed supplies to cadres and combatants.5333 In December 1979, the Standing Committee of the People's Representative Assembly unanimously decided to maintain Nuon Chea as its Chairman.5334 He hosted a conference on 15 February 1981 with Khieu Samphan, where it was decided to form a united front against the Vietnamese with the Khmer People's National Liberation Front and the Royalists.5335 Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan also distributed circulars on behalf of the DK Representative Assembly urging military, civilians, and compatriots to remain patriotic in their struggle against the Vietnamese.5336 In October 1981, Nuon Chea was the head of the DK delegation to the Asian Parliamentarian Conference in Beijing.5337 After the official dissolution of the CPK in late 1983 or early 1984, Nuon Chea held a political education session in Samlaut, where he declared that "communism was only a means towards patriotism" .5338
1575. Nuon Chea surrendered to the Phnom Penh Government, together with Khieu Samphan in December 1998, about six months after Pol Pot's death.5339 At the time of his arrest on 19 September 2007, Nuon Chea was living with his wife in Pruhm market village, Pailin
district.5340
1576. After declaring at his initial appearance and the adversarial hearing prior to his detention that he denied all charges and that he wanted to "enlighten the world about the truth", Nuon Chea made no substantive statements, arguing that he was in poor health.5341 He also elected to exercise his right to remain silent.5342
1577. Nuon Chea refused to meet with the psychiatric experts who were supposed to examine him and offer an opinion on his fitness to stand trial. The experts therefore only observed that a review of his medical files revealed no past history of mental disorder.5343
2 comments:
old KR leaders should rotten in dark prison cell and go to hell already, you know. they killed too many people and destroyed cambodia already, but cambodia is reborn and god will see to it that the KR will rot in hell, really. that's all any khmer person cares, really. no more stupid, primitive, ignorant, outdated KR regime, ok!
All these Khmer Rouge leaders must
be in jail for 5,000 years.
They are so cruel.
The evil deed gets evil deed.
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