Bangkok Post
Employees at Cambodia's cash-strapped Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal have ended a strike that paralysed the trial of elderly former regime leaders, the court said.
Security officials guard the main gate of the UN-backed Khmer Rouge war-crimes court in Phnom Penh on September 14, 2012. Workers there have ended a strike that paralysed the trial of elderly former regime leaders.
The resolution follows calls from rights groups and the United Nations to speed up the trial of the remaining two Khmer Rouge defendants, following the death of regime co-founder Ieng Sary last week.
About 20 Cambodian translators and interpreters, who walked out on March 4, have agreed to return to work after they were promised they would receive their wages for December this week, tribunal spokesman Neth Pheaktra said.
"The strike is over for now," he told AFP.
But the staff warned that they would walk out again on April 1 if their contracts are not renewed by the end of March, he added.
About 270 Cambodian employees at the UN-backed court, including drivers, prosecutors and judges, have received no wages since November.
Neth Pheaktra said they would be paid using funds pledged by the European Union last year, whose transfer was delayed due to a "technical problem".
The Cambodian side of the hybrid tribunal -- whose top donors also include the European Union, Australia, France, Germany and Britain -- urgently needs more than $7 million to cover costs for 2013.
The tribunal has been frequently short of funding since it was set up in 2006 to find justice for the deaths of up to two million people under the hardline communist regime.
Ieng Sary, who as the regime's foreign minister was one of the few public faces of the Khmer Rouge, died in hospital on Thursday aged 87, escaping court judgement for his alleged role in the atrocities.
The two remaining defendants, "Brother Number Two" Nuon Chea and former head of state Khieu Samphan -- who both deny charges of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity -- are in their 80s, prompting fears they too could die before the tribunal reaches a verdict.
The court plans to discuss Nuon Chea's fitness to stand trial on March 25.
Led by "Brother Number One" Pol Pot, who died in 1998, the Khmer Rouge wiped out nearly a quarter of Cambodia's population through starvation, overwork or execution in a bid to create an agrarian utopia during their 1975-79 rule.
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ECCC in Cambodia.
Why this ECCC has had so mamy problems and obstacles from the so-called Hun Sen government?
Because ..... .
This ECCC in Cambodia is Hanoi-US ECCC to twist white to black, to turn things upside down, and to twist real Khmer history, all the answers to millions and millions of Cambodian people were killed and being killed are all in real Khmer history and political events since 1930s.
If you understand the following it help us as a Khmer to understand who has killing Khmer and why?
- What is Indochina Federation who created, since when and what for?
- Who created yuon and Khmer Viet Minh and what did they before and after 1954 Geneva conference deep inside Cambodia ?
- Who created CPP since when and what for?
- Who brought war into Cambodia and what for?
- US B 52 bomb Viet Cong in Cambodia since 1960s secretly and openly and very heavenly 200 days and 200 nights in Cambodia in 1973 to kill Viet Congs but it ended up nearly million Khmer died and caused vast atrocity to Cambodian people , this is war crime or not?
- K 5 plan in Cambodia during 1980s is part of Genocide of Khmer people or not?
- The inflow of millions of yuon illegal migrants into Cambodia is Genocide or not?
- Are these enough evidences for Khmer to wrtie real Khmer history for Khmer younger generation to know who really behind all genocide, war crimes and crimes against Cambodian humanity.
Hopefully more and more Khmer have a better understanding all about who behind all killing millions and millions Khmer people and why this ECCC has had so many problems and obstacles from the so-called Hun Sen government.
So this ECCC in Cambodia is Hanoi-US ECCC to twist black to whiite and to turn things upside down to twist real Khmer history or not it all up to you to judge it.
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