Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Tribunal Should Summon Top Leaders: Sam Rainsy

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy
From left to right: Keat Chhon, Hor 5 Hong and Hun Xen
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
Heng Reaksmey, VOA Khmer | Phnom Penh
Sam Rainsy said Tuesday that senior leaders within the government must be brought to the court to testify.
More than 500 opposition supporters gathered at the “killing fields” of Choeung Ek outside Phnom Penh on Tuesday, to mark the anniversary of the Khmer Rouge takeover in 1970.

In a speech broadcast from exile, opposition leader Sam Rainsy urged the UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal to summon some of the nation’s highest-ranking leaders to testify at the court.

No senior leader of the current government has answered summonses from the court, including Foreign Minister Hor Namhong and Finance Minister Keat Chhon.


Choeung Ek was a mass gravesite where Khmer Rouge victims were executed after they were tortured at the Tuol Sleng prison in Phnom Penh. The leader of the prison, Duch, was sentenced to life in prison by the tribunal earlier this year.

Three more leaders—Nuon Chea, Khieu Samphan and Ieng Sary—are currently on trial at the court. The tribunal is expected to hold hearings on Wednesday concerning the regime’s ministries of foreign affairs and commerce and the Boeung Trabek internment camp in Phnom Penh.

Sam Rainsy said Tuesday that senior leaders within the government must be brought to the court to testify. He did not name the leaders who should be summoned. But he said top leaders today “know well” the details of the Khmer Rouge leadership.

A tribunal spokesman said the list of witnesses who will testify remains confidential and that decisions are made only by the international and local judges of the hybrid court.

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

The old man in the midlle had fucked Ek Chorvivanna (Student) during he ambassador in Russia.

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

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កញ្ចាស់នេះវាគួរជាប់គុកដូចមេក្រហមទាំងនោះ។

Anonymous said...

sam rainsy never lived in the KR regime, what does he know, really!

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

8:36 AM
Are you that serious? Watch film, listen to the story of folks who lived in KR, read and read. The outsiders know more than the insiders.

Anonymous said...

UN TRIBUNAL TEAM ARE IN CAMBODIA FOR ONLY PAID VACATION BECAUSE
THE TRUTH IS OUT OF REACH AND JUSTICE IS NOT GOING TO BE SERVED.
THE VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS ARE STILL STRUGGLING , NOW . SAM RAINSI
WANTS TO BE A LEADER OF THE PAST WHICH HE HAD NEVER LIVED THROUGH . AS LONG AS THE ACCUSES ARE STILL ALIVE , UN WILL PAY FOR THEIR LIVING EXPENSES INCLUDING FREE MEDICAL CARE WHILE THEIR VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS HAVE TO WORK HARD AND CANNOT AFORD TO BUY SOME ASPIRIN ?

Anonymous said...

This ECCC in Cambodia is Hanoi-US ECCC.

Yuon Hanoi and US working together in the name of seeking justice for million Cambodain killing between 1975-1979 to cover up other genocide and war crimes, crimes against Cambodian humen known as Indochina Federation such as K 5, US carpet bombing in Cambodia between 1969-1973.

Anonymous said...

To 12:19am
Sam Rainsy does not need to live through
the KR regime to save his country. The UN
Tribunal must do its job, but Hun Sen and his Khmer Vietminh clique are trying to enterfere with the Tribunal, because they
had blood in their hands.
They too should be the defendants.

Anonymous said...

CHINESE EMBASSY JUST SAID THAT KR TRIAL IS THE INTERNAL AFFAIR
OF CAMBODIA ; THEREFORE UN SHOULD CLOSE ALL CASES THEN GO HOME . SEND THE KR LEADERS TO THE JUNGLE SO THAT THEY CAN STEAL
FARMERS' CATTLE FOR LIVING AGAIN ?...

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