Australian Broadcasting Corporation
A decision to cut fees for foreign defence counsels has been hailed by International judges on the Khmer Rouge tribunal.
The judges say they hope the genocide trials will now progress.
Demands by the Cambodian Bar Association that overseas lawyers pay up to $US4,900 a year to defend former political leaders has stalled for months regulations needed for the trials to take place.
While the Bar refused to abandon the fees, it reduced them Friday to $US500 for the entire period of the trials after weeks of crisis talks with various foreign diplomats.
International jurists, who opposed the high fees, say they hope the tribunal rules could now be adopted by a full plenary of foreign and Cambodian judges at the end of May.
The judges in a statement expressed "their hope that (the tribunal) can move forward without further delay, so as to discharge its historic responsibility to find justice for the Cambodian people."
After nearly a decade of tough negotiations and many setbacks, the first trials of former Khmer Rouge leaders were initially expected this year.
But officials say repeated delays mean they are not likely to start until early 2008.
The judges say they hope the genocide trials will now progress.
Demands by the Cambodian Bar Association that overseas lawyers pay up to $US4,900 a year to defend former political leaders has stalled for months regulations needed for the trials to take place.
While the Bar refused to abandon the fees, it reduced them Friday to $US500 for the entire period of the trials after weeks of crisis talks with various foreign diplomats.
International jurists, who opposed the high fees, say they hope the tribunal rules could now be adopted by a full plenary of foreign and Cambodian judges at the end of May.
The judges in a statement expressed "their hope that (the tribunal) can move forward without further delay, so as to discharge its historic responsibility to find justice for the Cambodian people."
After nearly a decade of tough negotiations and many setbacks, the first trials of former Khmer Rouge leaders were initially expected this year.
But officials say repeated delays mean they are not likely to start until early 2008.
4 comments:
ahahahhahahahaha!
Is this another grand opening???Why are there such a discount in price all of sudden???You see in Cambodia, Cambodian people bargain for all most everything!!!I didn't know that Cambodian law can be so flexible when dealing with money!!!aahhahhahah!
IF KHMER ROUGE TRIBUNAL IS A COMMERCE FOR AH KY TECH,
IT MEANS KHMER ROUGE TRIBUNAL REMAINS THE TRAGEDY OF CAMBODIAN PEOPLE.
IT ALSO MEANS AH KY TECH DOES NOT SUFFER ABOUT THE KILLING OF ABOUT 1.7 MILLIONS OF CAMBODIANS DURING 1975-1979 AND ABOUT 700,000 CAMBODIA PEOPLE DURING 1979-1989 UNDER VIETNAM'S DOMINATION AND DURING 1989-2007 UNDER CPP RULE (CPP=Communist Pro youn Party)
5:18, You should thank our friend
(the japanese) for that.
Prince Norodom Sihanouk and UN (United Nations)help us (Cambodians) to finish and push vietnam domination out of Cambodia
and Japan helps us (Cambodians) much in the Cambodia development
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