ABC Radio Australia
The UN envoy to the Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal in Cambodia says the court will go broke unless countries like Australia give the money they pledged.
The court, which was jointly created by the UN and the Cambodian government, is trying leaders of the notorious Khmer Rouge regime.
However, David Scheffer says the tribunal is running out of money and the UN will be forced to withdraw at the end of this month.
Australia pledged $1.4 million in July, but Mr Scheffer has told the ABC they are yet to receive any money.
"Those kinds of money have to be actually received in order to actually allow us to use them for the operations of the court," he said.
"But it's extremely gratifying that the pledge has been made.
"Australia has been a leading funder of the Extraordinary Chambers in Cambodia," Mr Scheffer said.
5 comments:
It is time to let the gravy train roll off the track.
Kuoy Pichet
As long as those old KR cadres are still breathing, the donors will keep the gravy train rolling for the sake of their indispensible lawyers.
don't punish the train. it is the engineers that had no direction from the inception!
i just made a donation to the National Rescue Fund - it is for a good cause for Cambodia and her people. I wish the KI administrator would tag: http://www.nrp-dc.com/, to make it easy for the general public to access.
Thanks KI. Tell Heng Soy don't be shy. She needs to come out of the closet!
let set them free i'm sick of this shit, there is no justice on this earth! no karma! no crap! I don't believe in tveu laor ban laor anymore, so far it proves tveu laor ban ach tveu ach ban laor
HUN SEN took all the money from ECCC fund, so Hun Sen will not be on trial when ECCC is going broke and close down offices. Hun Sen silence mass murderer killed about 5 millions Cambodian since he is in power until present. Silence mass murderer by Hun Sen's violent forced evictions, homeless, starvation, jobless, no supplemental supports, no financial aids, no security, no safety, no laws and orders, no land laws and land protection for Cambodian, Vietnamese encroachment, 10 million Vietnamese settled in Cambodia, etc.
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