Original report from Washington
13 November 2008
Deputy UN Secretary-General Patricia Obrience will visit Cambodia next work for discussion of the Khmer Rouge tribunal, as the courts continue to face allegations of mismanagement and corruption, UN and government sources said.
Obrience will meet with Council Minister Sok An, who is the head of Cambodia’s UN negotiation team, on Nov. 20, sources said.
No details were available for her visit. UN tribunal spokesman Peter Foster could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
The joint UN-Cambodia tribunal has five former Khmer Rouge leaders in custody and is preparing for the first trial ever, of prison chief Duch, in early 2009.
But the courts have been hounded by lingering allegations that Cambodian staff were forced to pay kickbacks to supervisors and officials in order to keep their positions at the courts, allegations that led to a freeze of funding to the Cambodian side of the courts by international donors.
Obrience will meet with Council Minister Sok An, who is the head of Cambodia’s UN negotiation team, on Nov. 20, sources said.
No details were available for her visit. UN tribunal spokesman Peter Foster could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
The joint UN-Cambodia tribunal has five former Khmer Rouge leaders in custody and is preparing for the first trial ever, of prison chief Duch, in early 2009.
But the courts have been hounded by lingering allegations that Cambodian staff were forced to pay kickbacks to supervisors and officials in order to keep their positions at the courts, allegations that led to a freeze of funding to the Cambodian side of the courts by international donors.
6 comments:
UN and its people should know that those things are something predicable in actual Cambodia even little child from elementary school can observe it. Shame to UN and its people to soil hand in the blood of Khmer people with those criminals.
How to judge Khmer rouge while those who hold power and direct the trial are ex Khmer rouge themselves, all managed by yuons and that ordinary Khmer people still struggle to survive between two genocides led in different ground?
Don't waste time and resources too long. It is so obvious that they are all guilty. Hang them all and this is will be a good lesson for all to learn. So my family's soul can rest in peace.
The most guilty leaders are old age and some past away...the new generation know nothing...My question is...Which Country is responsible for the Victims of the Kingdom of Cambodia???
The US.
11:05 AM,
The US, RUSSIA AND CHINA.
Now it's time to help Khmer people and their Country,The three powerful Country can do this(The US,RUSSIA AND CHINA).Because the Kingdom of Cambodia not that big to restore or rebuild for Peace.I believe three of powerful Country known that part of Thailand is belong to the Kingdom of Cambodia and also part of Vietnam too.
May God Bless the Khmer people and their Country!!!
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