Former Khmer Rouge prison chief S-21, Kaing Guek Eav better known as "Duch" (C) stands in a dock in the court room at the Extraodinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia in Phnom Penh. Cambodia's genocide court on Friday ruled that the former Khmer Rouge prison chief will face extra charges, paving the way for the first public trial of a leader of the brutal regime. (AFP/POOL/Mak Remissa)By Kong Sothanarith, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
05 December 2008
Duch will also be charged with murder and torture for his role as chief of Tuol Sleng prison under the Khmer Rouge.
Jailed Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch was handed two more counts in his atrocity crimes indictment Friday, but he was not charged under a legal principle that would link four other leaders to his alleged crimes.
Chief judge Prak Kimsan announced the decision of the Khmer Rouge tribunal’s Pre-Trial Chamber Friday, adding the crimes of murder and torture from Cambodia’s Penal Code to charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The decision moved the tribunal one step closer to Duch's trial, expected in early 2009, the first ever for courts that have faltered from their inception, alarming critics who worry leaders will perish before they face trial.
Tribunal prosecutors in September lodged an appeal against the indictment, part of a so-called “closing order” by the investigating judges, noting Duch had not been indicted for the two crimes, which fall under the 1956 Penal Code.
Prosecutors also noted Duch, who real name is Kaing Kek Iev, was not indicted for all crimes committed in the notorious prison he ran, Tuol Sleng, known to the Khmer Rouge by the codename S-21.
The Pre-Trial judges said Friday they had found enough reason in the appeal to add the two crimes to Duch’s indictment.
They announced they had found enough cause for murder, because Duch had allegedly planned or incited killings at S-21 and the nearby site of mass graves, or “killing fields,” at Chhoeung Ek, a commune in Phnom Penh’s Dankao district.
Duch’s defense lawyers did not comment after the hearing, but in a brief submitted to the Pre-Trial Chamber in November, they expressed worry that the murder and torture claims could delay the court through further investigation.
However, Hong Kimsuon, a lawyer for the civil parties in Duch’s case, said Friday the new indictment would not extend the investigation or prolong the process.
“It is only an additional [two charges], and after that they will go forward to trial,” he said.
Judge Prak Kimsan also said Friday Duch would be detained until his trial and the case would now be forwarded to the Trial Chamber.
Prak Kimsan said the legal principal known as joint criminal enterprise, which could potentially link the other leaders with Duch’s crimes, had not been satisfactorily demonstrated.
Jailed Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch was handed two more counts in his atrocity crimes indictment Friday, but he was not charged under a legal principle that would link four other leaders to his alleged crimes.
Chief judge Prak Kimsan announced the decision of the Khmer Rouge tribunal’s Pre-Trial Chamber Friday, adding the crimes of murder and torture from Cambodia’s Penal Code to charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The decision moved the tribunal one step closer to Duch's trial, expected in early 2009, the first ever for courts that have faltered from their inception, alarming critics who worry leaders will perish before they face trial.
Tribunal prosecutors in September lodged an appeal against the indictment, part of a so-called “closing order” by the investigating judges, noting Duch had not been indicted for the two crimes, which fall under the 1956 Penal Code.
Prosecutors also noted Duch, who real name is Kaing Kek Iev, was not indicted for all crimes committed in the notorious prison he ran, Tuol Sleng, known to the Khmer Rouge by the codename S-21.
The Pre-Trial judges said Friday they had found enough reason in the appeal to add the two crimes to Duch’s indictment.
They announced they had found enough cause for murder, because Duch had allegedly planned or incited killings at S-21 and the nearby site of mass graves, or “killing fields,” at Chhoeung Ek, a commune in Phnom Penh’s Dankao district.
Duch’s defense lawyers did not comment after the hearing, but in a brief submitted to the Pre-Trial Chamber in November, they expressed worry that the murder and torture claims could delay the court through further investigation.
However, Hong Kimsuon, a lawyer for the civil parties in Duch’s case, said Friday the new indictment would not extend the investigation or prolong the process.
“It is only an additional [two charges], and after that they will go forward to trial,” he said.
Judge Prak Kimsan also said Friday Duch would be detained until his trial and the case would now be forwarded to the Trial Chamber.
Prak Kimsan said the legal principal known as joint criminal enterprise, which could potentially link the other leaders with Duch’s crimes, had not been satisfactorily demonstrated.
10 comments:
This monkey trial is not for the khmer victims; it serves the Viet interests in swallowing Cambodia very soon.
The main actor of Khmer Killing Fields is N. Sihanouk and Viet invaders.
The author of Norna Chea Kheatakors Reas Khmers.
about the khmer rouge thing,why don't they just put them in a electric chair,or suffer them,torture them like they do to other,to show how it feel to be in pain,just get rid of a bad people instead good one,and how hard is that,just make up your mind,and continued a new research with the problem solving for a better living to the people that still have a chance to bring back a better future and developing a country,is this really confuse,if it does,how about learn from other country,and watch them do it,and take a note,try to learn from the teacher who have degree,and certify,who have an educated,but not just buddy,buddy type situation or u never get nowhere beside screw up.
Pol Pot1
Khui Samphon
Youn Angkar
The top leader of khmer rouge are:
MAO,IENG SARY,SIHANOUK,LE DUC THO,POLPOT,NUON CHEA,DUCH,PHAM VANDONG...etc
"Pour la Chine, la France est le maillon faible de l'Europe"
Après avoir renoncé à rencontrer le dalaï-lama en août à Paris, Nicolas Sarkozy a finalement annoncé qu'il rencontrerait le chef spirituel tibétain en Pologne samedi 6 décembre. Réplique immédiate de Pékin : le sommet Chine-UE, prévu le 1er décembre à Lyon, a été annulé. Jeudi, la Chine a été plus loin, menaçant Paris de mesures de rétorsion économique. Jean-Vincent Brisset, directeur de recherche à l'Institut de relations internationales et stratégiques, et spécialiste de la Chine, explique les raisons de l'intransigeance de Pékin.
3:43 AM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Comment rétablir des relations plus saines avec la Chine ?
Il y a heureusement beaucoup de gens en Europe qui commencent à comprendre que la Chine n'est pas un pays ami. C'est un pays égoïste qui a des rapports rugueux avec le reste du monde, avec lequel il faut prendre un peu de distance. Cela s'est ressenti dans les premières déclarations européennes après l'annulation du sommet Chine-UE : Manuel Barroso a commencé par expliquer que le problème concernait toute l'Europe, pas seulement la France, et surtout qu'il y avait un problèm e du côté chinois. La Chine attend maintenant de voir si Sarkozy ira bien voir le dalaï-lama en Pologne. Elle teste la solidité de l'Europe, pas de la France : si elle impose des mesures de rétorsion bilatérales contre la France et que les Européens laissent faire, elle aura tout gagné. Mais si la France se retranche derrière l'Europe et que l'UE reste solidaire, ça se passera très bien. Si l'Europe faiblit, la Chine pourra piétiner tous les pays européens l'un après l'autre, sauf la Grande-Bretagne, qui ne se laissera jamais faire.
4:34 AM
le monde 04 12 08
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6:05 AM
Anonymous Anonymous said...
ECCC come on and dance with khmer,
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=1iT09V1Ro44&NR=1
some 30 years yuons and its sympathizers worked together make its (Khmer) war, its (Khmer) revolution at the place of Khmer people to bring genocide to Cambodia against Khmer people now the same criminals and its filiations organize the tribunal but to judge who ? The genocide in Cambodia didn’t end with the withdrawal of Pol pot just to be replaced by another yuon killing tools.
Those who support the yuon killing entreprise and no matter how are as criminals as the yuons
The world are not being fair,fair is Sihaknuk and Hun Sen?They should be there since it start the court
An executioner is not a criminal, no matter how you look at it.
only two more crimes were added, i'm sure they (he and his so-called 'angka leu people') committed thousands of crimes on khmer people, not to mention destroying cambodian society, country, etc... may god punish them!
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