By Lim Pisith
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
A number of relatives of the Khmer Rouge and former KR cadres living in Cambodia’s northwest, have expressed their support to the request made by a US-based organization to remove the immunity of the former monarch in order to allow the opportunity for the ECCC co-judges and prosecutors to perform their work with freedom and independence.
Mrs. Ven Dara, a niece of Ta Mok, the former Khmer Rouge army commander, who now lives in Pailin city, is one of the many people who told RFA that she supports the idea of inviting the former monarch to come to the ECCC tribunal to clarify to the public, this action will also provide justice for the other Khmer Rouge leaders whom Ven Dara thinks that they worked to serve the nation, just like the former king.
Ven Dara said: “Whoever tied the knot must undo it, therefore in this trial, the king must clearly clarify this issue.”
Pech Vannak, a former commander of the Army Unit 11, Battalion No. 2, in the special Khmer Rouge military zone, from 1972 to 1975, and who now lives in Malay district, Banteay Meanchey province, said that he and the former Khmer Rouge cadres and other former KR soldiers, also have the same idea.
Pech Vannak said: “Since the 18 March 1970 coup d’état, it was the king voice from Beijing who called his children and grandchildren to join the maquis (resistance).”
The demands made by the former Khmer Rouge cadres and soldiers were made a few days after the government and 3 major political parties have condemned the US-Based Cambodian Action Committee for Justice and Equity (CACJE) – which demanded the National Assembly to remove King Sihanouk’s immunity to allow the opportunity for the KR Tribunal (KRT) co-judges and prosecutors to seek justice for the victims and those charged – of being evil and was made with the intention of undermining the national unity by turning the criminals to victims, and turning the victims to criminals.
Nam Sara, CACJE spokesman in Cambodia, asked that, if during the course of the futre KRT questioning, it can be established that King-Father was indeed behind the KR leaders and the genocide regime, wouldn’t the KRT waste 3-year of work and $56 million in expense for nothing?
Reach Sambath, ECCC spokesman, replied to this question: “We should leave the opportunity to the co-prosecutors and co-judges of the KRT to fulfill their duty, based on the agreements which were planned. They will try all the leaders and those who bear the highest responsibility in the crimes committed during the Democratic Kampuchea regime.”
There is no reaction from the former monarch’s quarters yet regarding this request.
Mrs. Ven Dara, a niece of Ta Mok, the former Khmer Rouge army commander, who now lives in Pailin city, is one of the many people who told RFA that she supports the idea of inviting the former monarch to come to the ECCC tribunal to clarify to the public, this action will also provide justice for the other Khmer Rouge leaders whom Ven Dara thinks that they worked to serve the nation, just like the former king.
Ven Dara said: “Whoever tied the knot must undo it, therefore in this trial, the king must clearly clarify this issue.”
Pech Vannak, a former commander of the Army Unit 11, Battalion No. 2, in the special Khmer Rouge military zone, from 1972 to 1975, and who now lives in Malay district, Banteay Meanchey province, said that he and the former Khmer Rouge cadres and other former KR soldiers, also have the same idea.
Pech Vannak said: “Since the 18 March 1970 coup d’état, it was the king voice from Beijing who called his children and grandchildren to join the maquis (resistance).”
The demands made by the former Khmer Rouge cadres and soldiers were made a few days after the government and 3 major political parties have condemned the US-Based Cambodian Action Committee for Justice and Equity (CACJE) – which demanded the National Assembly to remove King Sihanouk’s immunity to allow the opportunity for the KR Tribunal (KRT) co-judges and prosecutors to seek justice for the victims and those charged – of being evil and was made with the intention of undermining the national unity by turning the criminals to victims, and turning the victims to criminals.
Nam Sara, CACJE spokesman in Cambodia, asked that, if during the course of the futre KRT questioning, it can be established that King-Father was indeed behind the KR leaders and the genocide regime, wouldn’t the KRT waste 3-year of work and $56 million in expense for nothing?
Reach Sambath, ECCC spokesman, replied to this question: “We should leave the opportunity to the co-prosecutors and co-judges of the KRT to fulfill their duty, based on the agreements which were planned. They will try all the leaders and those who bear the highest responsibility in the crimes committed during the Democratic Kampuchea regime.”
There is no reaction from the former monarch’s quarters yet regarding this request.
4 comments:
Some thing wrong here?
All Cambodian citizen request just do not turn the the people who committed crimes to be innocents,
but folks you can see that why they back each others up because those leaders a liar,they are the criminals,they do not want to face and tell the true,they afraid when our cambodian learn to prosecute them one and prosecute the next so they have to stop us, blinding us made us like we are not human being ,and walk all over our rights,please thing about that chicken shit leaders.
Hey folks Justices will be prevailed.
Folks, a short extract right below from NOUTH Chhoeurm's "Mémoire d'un coup d'Etat" will certainly open wide millions of eyes of people who dare to believe that King Norodom Sihanouk was innocent, not involved in the 1975-1979 Khmer Rouge atrocities and should not be prosecuted by the ECCC. Unfortunately for some folks, the text is in French:
Presque trente ans déjà ont passé depuis le génocide commis par les sanguinaires Khmers rouges, un génocide qui a causé la mort de plus de deux millions de Cambodgiens innocents et notre histoire n’a jamais vu un tel crime contre l’humanité depuis la fin de la deuxième guerre mondiale. Malgré trente ans passés, la question demeure et on se demande toujours si ce crime contre l’humanité pouvait-il être évité ou non? Les réponses étaient diverses, mais la majorité avait répondu “oui” si Samdech Norodom Sihanouk, en tant que Chef de l’Etat du Kampuchea Démocratique des Khmers rouges pendant la période du génocide, avait cessé de penser à ses intérêts personnels, oubliait ses functions de Chef de l’Etat “fantoche” au service des Khmers rouges et pensait au malheur et à la souffrance de son people. Tout le monde sait très bien que Samdech Norodom Sihanouk est un grand “documentaliste” des évènements de son pays et que, tous les jours, il ne cesse de suivre les évènements par la presse étrangère, les câbles d’informations internationales tels que ceux de l’AFP, Reuters, UPI et… Donc Samdech était très au courant des bonnes et des mauvaises nouvelles provenant du pays et mieux informé que les autres Cambodgiens. Mais parce qu’il avait peur de perdre son fauteuil de Chef de l’Etat, il a préféré abandonner complètement son peuple à son sort au profit des Khmers rouges, ses amis “qu’il a juré de ne jamais trahir jusqu’à la fin de sa vie”.
[par NOUTH Chhoeurm,
Neuvième partie,
Le génocide pouvait-il être évité?
Mémoire d’un coup d’Etat]
we think that the king father clearly involved in the killing field because he was conspired with the terrorist hochimin by letting the hochimin troops used Cambodia as a safe shield from American bombs.When vietcongs trickly defeated American in 1975 they have been turning their politically tactics to destroy Cambodians.hochimin=binladen=king sihanuk should facing justice trial.
All true Khmer compatriots, ladies and gentlemen,
Cambodia's had cancers that were embedded into her by China+YUONS+Vietminh-CPP-Hun Sen+all royal's crooks through traitor Sihanouk's flesh and blood, also through his YUON's wife Monique and Sihanouk’s clique.
To have a true and lasting peace for Cambodia these cancers have to be removed once for all, either by the law of ECCC-KRT or by any means, as long as the majority agree with.
If these cancers remain inside Cambodia without proper treatments YUONS will continue to swallow us bit by bit every day and China will gobble the whole region without mercy toward Cambodia land and all Khmer people, with the last assistance of NORODOM SIHANOUK-HUN SEN.
KULEN MONOROM
(the rice farmer's son)
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