PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, March 14 (UPI) -- The U.N.-backed court in Cambodia hearing war crimes-related cases ended the proceedings of former Foreign Minister Ieng Sary, who died Thursday.
Sary, arrested in November 2007, was being tried before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity committed during the Khmer Rouge regime in the late 1970s, the United Nations said in a release.
He had been hospitalized several times since his detention, the latest on March 4, the United Nations said.
"The death of the accused Ieng Sary has the effect of terminating all criminal and civil actions ... before the ECCC," the trial chamber said in its decision.
Sary was on trial along with his wife, Ieng Thirith, who served as social affairs minister during the Khmer Rouge regime's bloody leadership of the country. Former head of state Khieu Samphan is on trial as well.
In September, the court found Thirith unfit to stand trial for to medical reasons and granted her a provisional release. Psychiatrists diagnosed her with clinical dementia, which they said would hinder her participation in court hearings.
An estimated 2 million people died during the Khmer Rouge regime between 1975 and 1979.
8 comments:
Yes Jackie,
Ms. Theary is right.....The U.N should just pack up and leave!!!
What a waste of money and resources, for nothing!!!
Why is the court ending Mr Sary case, he still have his lawyer whom have documentations to answer to the court...?
This discuss me...stupid court/judges, they (jusges/CPP government) have no interest in persuing justice and truth for the Cambodian people and those whom is a victims of the KR which is almost all Cambodian
Hun is the one behind this failed court system. Why did Hun try to cover up such crimes against humanity? mainly, because Hun himself is a criminal, and would not want Earng Sary say a thing about the KR regime, e.g if Sary says, 'well I was there and so was Hun', then, this will get Hun into trouble too. e.g if Sary is on trial, hun should also be on trial too, isn't it right?...Therefore, Hun had to do what he did, meaning, making a deal between or among them in order to cover up their crimes against humanity.
In order words, they all are murderers! they have blood in their hands and so, they would not allow the court system to go ahead with their trials. Now, everyone in the right mind would see this clearly. Even the UN knew this as well, but do they care? the answer is 'no'!, why? because no nation would want you to be better than theirs. They would rather see us khmer continuing to go down than to go up. why? because this is the real world, otherwise there is no WWI, WWII and WWIII about to take place at any moment now.
Today, there are stock piles of nuclear bombs ready to go off at any moment and at any time right now. So, it is time to wake up and look at a bigger picture, How are we going to solve the problem of 'khmers kill khmers' for other to benefit from? the answer to this question is conformity, no one wants to solve this problem for us, so we have to learn to solve it ourself, right? so to do this is to call upon all political leaders to discuss on what is important in the development of our nation?
If khmers don't love khmers, no one in the world will, simple as that!. So please, let try to learn from past mistakes and avoid future ones to ever happen again. We need to reconcile and apologie for all the mistakes we made in the past and let move on forward. We must help each other for the benefit of our nation as, together we can stand up tall and look up high. Please try to learn from other successful nations and asking why they are and not us? because they have used the collaboration skills well.
e, g, Yenluck and Abisit, they had conflicts but soon after, they made up for it. Doing so is to show to the world that they are a strong nation and so can we. Therefore, both PM and SR need to talk and apologie to one another for the benefit of our nation. Otherwise, we can not move forward. It is time to show to the outside world that we are also a strong nation too. Please don't let the outsiders get the benefit of our conflicts no more and say 'enough is enough'. Now both Hun and Sam have done alot of good works but lack of collaboration, that is all.
8:53 AM,
The main problem is the 100,000 Viet occupation troops inside Cambodia, plus over 7 millions Viet Colonists.
How you're going to solve that ???
She is not God. Not even close with that vengeful heart. Come on, the bad man is already dead!
8:53 AM. I agree with you BUT before I want to see Sam works for the nation i want to see Hun Sen corpse float down the Mekong River for all the killings of our Khmer people and destruction of our land to the ambitious Youn.
@ 8:16 AM
Are you some kind of a nut in trying to make a dead man talk?
Leave Jackie Chan alone. He's not interested in your damn politics.
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