REUTERS/Nhet Sokheng/ECCC/Handout Former Khmer Rouge leader “Brother Number Two” Nuon Chea (C) sits in the court room at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. By Michelle Fitzpatrick PHNOM PENH — The Khmer Rouge were not “bad people”, the regime’s highest-ranking surviving member said Monday as Cambodia’s [...]
Despite five years of process at a cost of nearly £100m, only one defendant – prison warden Kaing Guek Eav, alias as Duch – has been convicted. Photograph: Reuters Khmer Rouge trial is failing Cambodian victims of Pol Pot’s regime UN’s reputation also at stake amid interference and delays at court where its judges sit [...]
Regime’s ‘chief ideologue,’ foreign minister, and head of state face charges of crimes against humanity [Reuters] A top Khmer Rouge leader on trial at Cambodia’s war crimes court has been confronted with dramatic footage in which he defends the regime’s bloody purges and calls the victims “traitors”. Prosecutors told the court on Tuesday that the clip from the [...]
. Khmer Rouge leaders Nuon Chea, Khieu Samphan and Ieng Sary appear before a court for genocide [Kate Mayberry] The brutality of a regime during which about two million Cambodians died will be on display once again on Monday as the Extraordinary Chamber of the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) starts its second Khmer Rouge trial. The UN-backed [...]
Tribunal judges for Cambodia‘s communist Khmer Rouge war crimes victims have come under fire [EPA] Cambodia war crimes tribunal judge quits Senior official responsible for indictments at UN-backed tribunal resigns, citing government interference. A senior judge investigating war crimes under Cambodia’s former Khmer Rouge regime has resigned, citing government interference. Siegfried Blunk, who [...]
