H.E. Dr. Boyscout-leader Deputy-Prime-Minister Minister-of-the-Council-of-Ministers Hun-Xen's-in-law Xok AnSok An, Donors Meet Over Tribunal Funding Woes
Chun Sakada, VOA Khmer
Phnom Penh Tuesday, 07 September 2010
“We are committed to the judicial ‘due process’ and will work with the UN to ensure international standards are met.”Cabinet Minister Sok An on Tuesday urged representatives from 30 donor countries to consider additional funding for the UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal, which is facing shortfalls for this year and next.
Sok An, who met the donors along with the UN's top tribunal envoy, Clint Williamson, said the government of Cambodia had supported the tribunal and he urged additional support.
“We are committed to the judicial ‘due process’ and will work with the UN to ensure international standards are met,” he said in a statement.
Chan Tani, a secretary of state at the Council of Ministers, which overseas the tribunal, said the UN side was facing a funding shortfall of $6.4 million for the rest of this year and a shortfall of $29.8 million for 2011. The Cambodian side of the hybrid court was short $1 million for 2010 and more than $7 million for 2011, Chan Tani said.
Williamson, meanwhile, briefed ambassadors of donor countries like France, the EU, Japan, the UK and the US on the progress of the court, which has successfully tried one Khmer Rouge prison chief and is working toward the trials of four senior leaders of the regime. He also said the tribunal, known by the official acronym ECCC, had an important role as a model for the Cambodian court system.
Japanese Ambassador Masafumi Kuroki, who co-chairs the Friends of the ECCC, said in a meeting Tuesday that fundraising was critical for the next two years and the success of the court.
But the court has had difficulty convincing donors to fund its operations, with cash-flow problems earlier this year resulting in the suspension of pay for Cambodian staff members.
The Open Society Justice Initiative, which monitors the court, has said the tribunal suffers from fractured leadership and needs sustained, high-level UN leadership.
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You can run but you can't hide!
Ah XOK ANH (SOK AN)is a native Yuon. His real name is NGUYEN VAN ANH. He lives at Tay Ninh ( Raung Damrei's province of Kampuchea krom. He deguised his name in Khmer as SOK ANH or XOK ANH aka ah CHROUK. His wife's name is LÊ THI NI, also native yuon, and lives at Tai ninh (Raung Damrei's province of Kampuchea krom, but Mrs.LÊ THI NI deguised her name in khmer as ANNIE SOK ANH or ANNIE BITCH.
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So what are you gonna do about it beside whining like a little girl.
nothing lasts forever.
soon. they gonna meet their evil deed they done. if not them, their children gonna reaps what their parent' s evil deeds.
This bastard xok an tries to beg cash for his pocket and his subordinate pockets. The real trial is in hell, if UN and donors continue to fund him, it will be sure the UN and donors feed him and his which means the compromising between thse people to make a joke for Cambodian poor victims.
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