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| Ieng Thirith had been on trial with her husband for atrocity crimes before the UN-backed tribunal found her mentally unfit to stand trial last year. |
20 March 2013
Kong Sothanarith, VOA Khmer
BANTEAY MEANCHEY Province - Ieng Thirith, the wife of deceased former Khmer Rouge leader Ieng Sary, will arrive in Malai district, Banteay Meanchey province, Wednesday for the funeral of her husband, family members said Tuesday.
Ieng Thirith had been on trial with her husband for atrocity crimes before the UN-backed tribunal found her mentally unfit to stand trial last year. The cremation ceremony of Ieng Sary, who died in Phnom Penh March 14, will take place on Thursday. Family members say Ieng Thirith is ill, but will be able to travel.
Mourners continue to visit the wooden house in Dong village, Malai province, where Ieng Sary lies in state, while monks pray over his body three times per day.
Ieng Sary’s death adds to concerns the Khmer Rouge tribunal has been too slow in its proceedings, and that two more aging leaders—Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan—may not see their atrocity crimes trial to its conclusion.
The tribunal is also facing ongoing funding woes. Cambodian staff at the court have not been paid their salaries since December, prompting a walkout by translators there that lasted more than two weeks earlier this month. The translators have returned to work, with some of their salaries to be paid by upcoming funding, but the larger money issues remain.
The US ambassador-at-large for war crimes, David Scheffer, is visiting Cambodia this week to meet with Cambodian officials, officials said. A diplomat close to the court said Scheffer will meet with Cabinet Minister Sok An on Wednesday to discuss funding.
International donors have affirmed their commitment to the court, but they want to see the Cambodian government contribute more to the court, as well as other Asean countries, said the diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
3 comments:
Corrupted communist,
All the while that Sary and his cronies starved Khmer people to their death because the people need to "Lut, Dom ", the Khmer Rouge leaders busy making them selves riches.
This woman is supposed to be mentally retarded, how She would not understand what funeral is.
Baay Kdaing
Under POL POT Regime, if the people who committed sexual contact or immoral KHMER meant in KHOS SELATHOR , We were the victims could not even have any sexual desires due to malnutrition and starvation mostly happened to the Khmer Rouge cadres who had powers and ate well.
PHILLIP SHORT wrote the Anatomy of POL POT reading that IENG SARY and his then girlfriend KHIEU THIRITH and sexual intercourse before their marriage and then had abortion in Eastern European country while were campaigning for their Communist Drives .
That how IENG SARY and KHIEU THIRITH followed their RED King Father SIHANOUK 's footstep which he had sexual intercourse and never been married in his entire life.
A Survivor of Our Own Khmer Killing Fields
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