Translated from Khmer by Socheata

Cambodian Action Committee for Justice and Equity

30 August 2007

Special Statement

The Cambodian Action Committee for Justice and Equity (CACJE) is happy to sees that the former monarch has decided to invite international officials of the KR Tribunal to meet him for 3-hour on 08 September, with the royal goal of filming the clarifications regarding the crimes committed under the Khmer Rouge regime.

However, CACJE would like to point out that:

1. The Royal Palace is not an office of the KR Tribunal, protected by its security co-presidents, and in which the judges and prosecutors can use with full impartiality.
2. In a correct decision, it is not up to the suspects, or witnesses, or victims to summon the judges or the prosecutors to come over and listen to one’s recounting, it is the prosecutors or the investigating judges who have the right to summon the suspects, the victims, or witnesses for questioning in front of the court hearing.
3. More than 2 million Cambodian people lost their lives under the KR regime, this cannot be explained through a 3-hour of storytelling, and then have it broadcasted for the people to listen to or to watch. CACJE encourages the former monarch to accept the lifting of his immunity and to go provide his clarifications at the KR Tribunal, as he stipulated in his letter broadcasted by the BBC on 04 January 1999.

(Signed) Suon Serey Ratha
Mission President