PHNOM PENH (AFP)--The Khmer Rouge's torturer-in-chief is expected back in court at the end of March, when Cambodia's U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal resumes its first hearing, according to documents seen Tuesday.
Arguments and testimony in the case against prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, better known by the alias Duch, will begin March 30, according to an order signed Monday by trial chamber president Nil Nonn.
The court's long-awaited first trial started last week, but the proceedings were largely limited to lawyers arguing over the use of a film showing the prison that was under Duch's control where more than 15,000 people died.
After those proceedings, Duch's lawyer Francois Roux told reporters his client wished to use the trial to publicly ask his victims for forgiveness.
Before hearings in Duch's trial for war crimes, crimes against humanity, torture and premeditated murder resume, judges are expected to rule on admissibility of witness testimony and evidence.
After years of wrangling between the Cambodian government and the United Nations, the court was created in 2006 to try leading members of the 1975-1979 Khmer Rouge regime.
Four other Khmer Rouge leaders are also in detention awaiting trial.
Up to two million people were executed or died of starvation, disease and overwork under the Khmer Rouge, which attempted to create a communist utopia.
Arguments and testimony in the case against prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, better known by the alias Duch, will begin March 30, according to an order signed Monday by trial chamber president Nil Nonn.
The court's long-awaited first trial started last week, but the proceedings were largely limited to lawyers arguing over the use of a film showing the prison that was under Duch's control where more than 15,000 people died.
After those proceedings, Duch's lawyer Francois Roux told reporters his client wished to use the trial to publicly ask his victims for forgiveness.
Before hearings in Duch's trial for war crimes, crimes against humanity, torture and premeditated murder resume, judges are expected to rule on admissibility of witness testimony and evidence.
After years of wrangling between the Cambodian government and the United Nations, the court was created in 2006 to try leading members of the 1975-1979 Khmer Rouge regime.
Four other Khmer Rouge leaders are also in detention awaiting trial.
Up to two million people were executed or died of starvation, disease and overwork under the Khmer Rouge, which attempted to create a communist utopia.
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If you voted for CPP (Cambodian People's Party):
Also known as:
Communist People's Party
Khmer Rouge People's Party
Khmer Krorhorm People's Party
You're support the killing of 1.7 million Khmer peoples.
You're support the killing of innocent men, women and children in Cambodia on March 30, 1997.
You're support murder of Piseth Pilika.
You're support assassination of journalists in Cambodia.
You're support political assassination and killing.
You're support attemted assassination and murder of leader of the free trade union in Cambodia.
You're support corruption in Cambodia.
You're support Hun Sen Regime burn poor people's house down to the ground and leave them homeless.
These are the Trade Mark of Hun Sen Regime.
Hun Sen, Chea Sim and Heng Samrin are Khmer Rouge commanders.
When is the ECCC going to bring these three criminals to U.N. Khmer Rouge Trail?
Khmer Rouge Regime is a genocide organization.
Hun Sen Regime is a terrorist organization.
Hun Sen Bodyguards is a terrorist organization.
Hun Sen Death Squad is a terrorist organization.
Cambodian People's Party is a terrorist organization.
I have declare the current Cambodian government which is lead by the Cambodian People's Party as a terrorist organization.
Whoever do business with the current Cambodian government are associate with a terrorist organization.
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