Closing Order of Case 002 against Senior KR Leaders Nuon Chea, Khieu Samphan, Ieng Sary, Ieng Thirith

In light of the HISTORIC (!) start of MOST COMPLEX (sic!) trial hearings beginning on   27 June 2011 and again ANOTHER HISTORIC (!) START of this same MOST COMPLEX (sic!) on 21 Nov. 2011 of Case 002 against the surviving Khmer Rouge senior leaders Nuon Chea, Khieu Samphan, Ieng Sary and Ieng Thirith, KI Media is posting installations of the public document of the Closing Order of Case 002 (or, Indictment). The Closing Order of the Co-Investigating Judges forms the basic document from which all the parties (co-prosecutors, lead co-lawyers for all civil parties, defense lawyers) make their arguments before the Trial Chamber judges (one Cambodian President, 2 Cambodian Judges, 2 UN judges). Up until now, the hearings involving these four surviving senior Khmer Rouge leaders have been in the Pre-Trial Chamber over issues of pre-trial detention and jurisdictional issues. Beginning in June November 2011, the Trial Chamber is hearing the substantive (sic!) arguments over the criminal charges   (genocide against Buddhists, genocide against Vietnamese, genocide against Cham Muslims, crimes against humanity at the 200 prisons, mass crimes in countless killing fields, Eastern Zone purges, penal code of 1956, etc.) of only the Phase I Movement in April 1975.

 
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CLOSING ORDER (or, INDICTMENT)

 

of Co-Investigating Judges You Bunleng and Marcel Lemonde

15 September 2010

  PART THREE: LEGAL FINDINGS 

B. UNDERLYING OFFENCES CONSTITUTING GRAVE BREACHES OF THE

GENEVA CONVENTIONS 1949

Wilful Killing

S-21 Security Centre

1479.       As regards the actus reus, Vietnamese prisoners of war and civilians were deliberately killed at S-21 by the personnel of the security centre who were directly engaged in the systematic extra-judicial execution of all detainees.⁵²⁸²

1480.       In addition, the deaths of a number Vietnamese prisoners of war and civilians was caused indirectly as a result of the methods of interrogation they were subjected to as well as the general conditions imposed upon them whilst detained, inflicted in the reasonable knowledge that the death of the protected person was likely.

1493. As regards the mens rea, the killing of these protected persons was committed by the personnel of S-21 intentionally or recklessly.