By Kaing Menghun
The Cambodia Daily
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday shot back at allegations made by the Asia director at Human Rights Watch that he has deliberately and continuously stalled work of the Khmer Rouge tribunal, and that he was responsible for Ieng Sary dying before a verdict could be reached.
Following the former Khmer Rouge foreign minister’s death last week, Brad Adams released a statement placing the blame for Ieng Sary’s demise before the tribunal’s close squarely at Mr. Hun Sen’s feet.
“There was a guy who said that Hun Sen stalled the trial,” Mr. Hun Sen told government officials gathered at the Peace Palace in Phnom Penh. “Brad Adams, right? From Human Rights Watch. Brad Adams. Oh God.”
“Fast or slow progress depends on the tribunal. It doesn’t depend on me,” he continued, adding that a lack of funding and the advanced age of the defendants were the two main causes for slow progress at the court.
The prime minister then pointed to the fact that the U.N. had continued to support the Khmer Rouge even following 1979, when they held a U.N. seat. Mr. Hun Sen’s government by contrast, he said, had toppled the Pol Pot regime.
In his statement last week, Mr. Adams said Mr. Hun Sen “asked the United Nations in 1997 for assistance in holding Khmer Rouge leaders accountable—and since then he has done everything in his power to stymie the tribunal’s work.”
As evidence of this, Mr. Adams pointed to the fact that the U.N. nearly pulled out of negotiations to establish the tribunal in 2002 due to government interference in the tribunal.
The U.N.’s concerns about the hybrid court had proved correct, Mr. Adams said. “The government has failed to require its members to provide evidence to the tribunal’s judicial investigation and trial proceedings. Serious corruption allegations affecting the proceedings have never been adequately investigated.”
Mr. Hun Sen has said that he will not allow any further trials after the current Case 002 has concluded.
2 comments:
This is the typical communist leader : he/ she is always right
but someoneelse . Hun Sen did protect not just himself from
exposing his action relating to the crimes , he also tried
to mask his bosses , Yuon & Chen ( China ) .
it is time to change. No one in this world can rule forever. Please think twice before it is too late. Hun must learn to let go of his power. Today, everyone knows that Hun is being installed by the VC and Chinese crooks in order to control srok khmer, so it is time to make a change for the benefit of our nation.
At the moment VC and Chinese crooks are laughing at the khmer leader saying that 'Hun is our dog, when we tell him to sit, he sits and when we tell him to bark, he barks haha". They did this to Kingta, Pol pot and Lon Nol too. Right now, they are continuing to make 'khmers kill khmers' as usual because that is what they are good at. It is called 'deceiving' or 'killing two birds with one stone'.
Therefore, please watch out on their deceptive attitudes and don't let them fool us ever again. They promissed kingta and pol pot the world and in the end, they betrayed them all. They said to kingta and pol pot ' we will help you to fight with Lon Nol' and who is Lon Nol? a Khmer nationalist. After that, they created Khmer Hang Somrin to fight with Pol Pot, accusing each other of CIA and KGB spies.
They began to kill each other's party starting from the roots. In the end, Kingta and Pol Pot said 'the VC betrayed us and now, it is too late to rescue our nation'. After that, kingta had no where to go except China and Pol Pot ended up living in the jungle untill their last breath. Meanwhile, VC and the chinese crooks got the chance to control srok khmer as planned. They installed PM Hun to continue to do their dirty works called ' ethinic cleansing' .
They wanted the world to think that 'khmers killed khmers' but the truth will always be the truth. Therefore, Hun Sen please wake up because I am sure, they will do the same to you too and I want to say to them 'enough is enough'. If khmers don't love khmers, no one in the world will.
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