Thursday, March 21, 2013

UN, Cambodia Seeking Solution to Tribunal Funding Problems

David Scheffer (AP)
20 March 2013
Heng Reaksmey, VOA Khmer

PHNOM PENH - UN and Cambodian officials say they are committed to finding enough funding for the Khmer Rouge tribunal to continue its work.

This follows talks from former US ambassador-at-large for war crimes, David Scheffer, who is the UN’s special expert for the tribunal, and Cabinet Minister Sok An on Wednesday.

The hybrid court needs about $35 million to operate in 2013, with $9.4 million for the Cambodian side, according to a joint statement.

So far, only $2.5 million has been funded for this year, tribunal spokesman Neth Pheaktra said. The international side of the court has enough money to continue through June, but the Cambodian side already needs $7 million, some of it for salaries for 270 staff members, he said.


Sok An and Scheffer said in the statement their objective was to find a solution to the “funding matters that can enable the [court] to complete its mission of achieving justice for crimes committed during the Khmer Rouge regime.”

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Funding has NOT work in the past why will it work in the future?

At the same time there is NO PROSECUTION done in the past why will there be any proper justice in the future?

Anonymous said...

NO MORE FUNDING!!

UN are usless. Enough of wasting peoples times. Its been over 10 years and billions of dollars spent, yet the Khmer Rouge leaders are still in power.

Send Hun Nal, Chea Sim and Heng Samrin to the real court of justice in ICC.

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