Original report from Phnom Penh
23 July 2009
A Cambodian official derided Human Rights Watch on Thursday, saying the international organization “did not know” the country after it claimed the Khmer Rouge tribunal’s credible has been hurt by politics.
Human Rights Watch on Wednesday questioned the UN-backed court’s independence, following remarks by Prime Minister Hun Sen saying the tribunal should not indict more leaders of the failed regime.
“Hun Sen has no role in this court, yet he keeps trying to use his hold over its Cambodian personnel to interfere,” Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement. “The UN and international donors need to put their foot down so that the court can get on with its work in an independent and impartial manner.”
Hun Sen said during an official visit to France last week that the court “would not” threaten peace in Cambodia by indicting more suspects.
“Cambodia is Cambodia,” Khieu Kanharith, a government spokesman, said in response to the Human Rights Watch statement. “Hun Sen is resolved to have peace. It is the biggest thing.”
Hun Sen has said on a number of occasions he is opposed to indictments beyond five leaders of the regime.
“To be independent is the role of the Khmer Rouge tribunal,” said Youk Chhang, director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia. He said he considered Hun Sen’s remarks to be only the view of an individual.
However, Thun Saray, president of the rights group Adhoc, said Hun Sen’s statements were worrying, but at least the senior-most leaders of the Khmer Rouge were now in custody awaiting trial.
The Pre-Trial Chamber of the court has yet to determine whether more suspects will be indicted, a point that the prosecution is at odds over.
Human Rights Watch on Wednesday questioned the UN-backed court’s independence, following remarks by Prime Minister Hun Sen saying the tribunal should not indict more leaders of the failed regime.
“Hun Sen has no role in this court, yet he keeps trying to use his hold over its Cambodian personnel to interfere,” Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement. “The UN and international donors need to put their foot down so that the court can get on with its work in an independent and impartial manner.”
Hun Sen said during an official visit to France last week that the court “would not” threaten peace in Cambodia by indicting more suspects.
“Cambodia is Cambodia,” Khieu Kanharith, a government spokesman, said in response to the Human Rights Watch statement. “Hun Sen is resolved to have peace. It is the biggest thing.”
Hun Sen has said on a number of occasions he is opposed to indictments beyond five leaders of the regime.
“To be independent is the role of the Khmer Rouge tribunal,” said Youk Chhang, director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia. He said he considered Hun Sen’s remarks to be only the view of an individual.
However, Thun Saray, president of the rights group Adhoc, said Hun Sen’s statements were worrying, but at least the senior-most leaders of the Khmer Rouge were now in custody awaiting trial.
The Pre-Trial Chamber of the court has yet to determine whether more suspects will be indicted, a point that the prosecution is at odds over.
Actually Ah kanchas Krohorm kanharith is drunkard! this olfart is heavy drunkard...
ReplyDeletecorrection = heavy drinker
ReplyDeletedrunk hyena bastard.
ReplyDeleteHanoi and its cpp regime seem big sometime. But there is alway a bigger dog, or a bigger forces against them. Saddam hussien on his last day look like he needed alot of mercy. That goes for everyone. No one can avoid that judgement day, especially the crooked and evil.
ReplyDeleteHUN SEN needs to get rid of this old fart. This old clown abused too many young girls. He made strip naked and do such inhumane to them. Eventhough they got $100 but this money is not going to take care of the abuse. He physically touch them.
ReplyDeleteKhmer girl from PP,
Judgement day will be coming to CPP soon!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThis bastard is YOUN!! The kannariddh
ReplyDeleteDemocratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime had committed:
ReplyDeleteTortures
Executions
Massacres
Atrocities
Crimes Against Humanity
Starvations
Overwork to Death
Slavery
Rapes
Human Abuses
Assault and Battery
Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime had committed:
Assassinations
Assassinate Journalists
Assassinate Political Opponents
Murders
Killings
Extrajudicial Execution
Grenade Attack
Terrorism
Drive by Shooting
Tortures
Intimidations
Death Threats
Threatening
Human Abductions
Human Rights Abuses
Human Trafficking
Drugs Trafficking
Under Age Child Sex
Corruptions
Bribery
Illegal Mass Evictions
Illegal Land Grabbing
Illegal Firearms
Illegal Logging
Illegal Deforestation
Illegally use of remote detonation on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and others military official on board.
Illegally Sold State Properties
Illegally Remove Parliamentary Immunity of Parliament Members
Plunder National Resources
Acid Attacks
Turn Cambodia into a Lawless Country
Oppression
Injustice
Steal Votes
Bring Foreigners from Veitnam to vote in Cambodia for Cambodian People's Party.
Abuse the Court as a tools for CPP to send political opponents and journalists to jail.
Abuse of Power
Abuse the Laws
Abuse the National Election Committee
Abuse the National Assembly
Violate the Laws
Violate the Constitution
Violate the Paris Accords
Impunity
Under Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime, no criminals that has been committed all of these crimes above within Hun Sen Khmer Rouge government have ever been brought to justice.
PPU also got rape by ah KanChas Kanharith! Hun Sen need to pass a new laws quick!
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