Tag Archive for 'ECCC'
May 4th, 2013 by Julien Maton
by Jennifer Holligan & Vani Sathisan* An Internationalised Cambodian Court Between 1975 and 1979, the ultra-Maoist Khmer Rouge forcibly evacuated Cambodia’s urban centres and enslaved the population in rural cooperatives that were designed to transform the nation into an agrarian society. To this end, the regime separated families, prohibited religion, shut down educational institutions, abolished [...]
March 14th, 2013 by Julien Maton
Ieng Sary, a co-founder of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge movement in the 1970s, has died while on trial before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). He was 87. The Former Deputy Prime Minister of Foreign Affairs was accused together with Nuon Chea, Deputy Secretary of the Communist Party, and former head of state [...]
February 21st, 2013 by Raphaelle Rafin
Defence lawyers at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) have raised concerns regarding the lack of fair trial guarantees. In a press release published today, the three co-lawyers for a suspect in Case 004, including Göran Sluiter, point out the lack of financial problems which has led to a situation where suspects’ [...]
January 26th, 2013 by Ravipal Bains
The Cambodian staff of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) has lodged a protest with the tribunal’s Office of Administration over unpaid wages. In the protest letter, members of the Supreme Court Chamber as well as the translation and management offices stated that if there was no progress on their demands they [...]
December 23rd, 2012 by Julien Maton
In a recent Op-Ed in the Cambodia Daily, Michael Karnavas, co-lawyer for Khmer Rouge Foreign suspect Ieng Sary, commented on the failures of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). He first recalls that the ECCC will not be judged by the results of the cases that it will try as convictions are [...]
December 17th, 2012 by Julien Maton
by Rupert Abbott and Stephanie A. Barbour - Amnesty International The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia Over two years ago, Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen reportedly told UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that the Khmer Rouge Tribunal’s second trial (Case 002) would be its last. Since then, investigations in Cases 003 and 004 – which [...]
October 16th, 2012 by Jessica Peake
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia released suspect Ieng Thirith on September 16, 2012. On October 9 the Court issued further information about that release and the reasons why. The Trial Chamber has declared Ieng Thirith unfit to stand trial because she suffers from “moderate to severe dementia, likely Alzheimer’s disease”. This decision [...]
September 18th, 2012 by Julien Maton
A former Khmer Rouge leader has been released after the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) ruled that she was unfit to stand trial. Ieng Thirith, 80, was the social affairs minister during the 1970s when the Khmer Rouge was blamed for the deaths of up to two million people. She is thought [...]
June 19th, 2012 by Julien Maton
On June 5th, Richard J. Rogers, Lawyer at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), wrote a letter to the UN-Under-Secretary-General, concerning interference in the judicial process of his appointment as Defence Counsel to the suspect in Case 004. Richard Rogers alleges that Knut Rosandhaug, the Deputy Director of the Office of Administration [...]
May 18th, 2012 by Anna Bonini
Ieng Sary, one of the accused in ECCC Case 002, was taken to hospital after suffering breathing difficulties during a hearing. He was not in the courtroom when he fell ill, but was following proceedings remotely from a cell. ECCC Judges nevertheless halted the questioning of a witness to instruct his counsel to check on [...]
May 9th, 2012 by Julien Maton
In a recent article in the HuffingtonPost, Kip Hale, Senior Counsel at the American Bar Association (ABA), argues that international human rights non-governmental organizations (NGOs) sometimes undermine the causes they defend by failing to provide constructive solutions to human rights violations. The author takes the example of the NGOs that monitor the work of the [...]
May 8th, 2012 by Shannon Torrens
Prior to his leaving the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Friday 4 May, Judge Laurent Kasper-Ansermet issued his own Decisions on the two suspects of Case 003. In doing so he alleged that former Navy Chief Meas Muth and former Air Force Chief Sou Met, both high ranking commanders in the Revolutionary Army [...]
May 7th, 2012 by Shannon Torrens
On Friday, Judge Laurent Kasper-Ansermet, Reserve International Co-Investigating Judge at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), distributed a press release on what was his last official day at the Court. Judge Kasper-Ansermet resigned from his post in March 2012 effective from 4 May, due to alleged interference by the Cambodian government with regards to [...]
May 5th, 2012 by Shannon Torrens
Isaac Endeley has been appointed as the new Chief of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) Defence Support Section, taking up the post on 17 April 2012. The post has been vacant since the resignation of British born international lawyer, Richard Rogers in November 2010. On his resignation, Mr. Rogers said that [...]
May 3rd, 2012 by Shannon Torrens
Saloth Ban, the nephew of deceased Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot and former Secretary General in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Democratic Kampuchea has given evidence at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) in relation to Case 002 of Ieng Sary, Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan. The witness told the court [...]
April 22nd, 2012 by Shannon Torrens
Following the resignation of International Co-Investigating Judge Siegfried Blunk in October 2011 and the Reserve Co-Investigating Judge Laurent Kasper-Ansermet in March of this year at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), the spokesperson for Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations has emphasised that the Secretary General believes it to be essential [...]
April 19th, 2012 by Shannon Torrens
Case 002 at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) in Phnom Penh resumed on Wednesday, with 85 year old Nuon Chea former deputy leader of the Khmer Rouge and second in command to leader Pol Pot reading from a prepared written statement, in which he denied ordering the torture and execution of prisoners at S-21 (Tuol [...]
April 12th, 2012 by Shannon Torrens
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), Supreme Court Chamber’s Appeal Judgment in Case 001 of Kaing Guek Eav alias Duch was published on Monday. Duch, who oversaw the S-21 (Tuol Sleng) Khmer Rouge prison in Phnom Penh was sentenced to life imprisonment. Duch was the sole individual indicted as part of case 001, the first [...]
March 21st, 2012 by Anna Bonini
After announcing his resignation yesterday, ECCC International Reserve Co-Investigating Judge Kasper-Ansermet issued today an official note concerning ‘egregious dysfunctions within the ECCC’. The note denounces several cases of irregularities and failure by the Cambodian staff to co-operate with their international counterparts, particularly in the context of the internal investigation launched by Judge Kasper-Ansermet. According to [...]
March 20th, 2012 by Anna Bonini
On 19 March 2012, the ECCC Trial Chamber resumed proceedings in Case 002 against Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary and Khieu Samphan. Accused Nuon Chea was allowed to deliver a short oral submission, during which he blamed other actors (particularly the US and Vietnam) for the events in Cambodia and asked the Chamber to broaden the [...]
March 19th, 2012 by Anna Bonini
According to an ECCC press release, Judge Laurent Kasper-Ansermet resigned from his position International Reserve Co-Investigating Judge, with effect from 4 May 2012. Judge Kasper-Ansermet was mandated to investigate cases 003 and 004, but his authority to act has been constantly contested by the National Co-Investigating Judge, You Bunleng, despite a ruling by the Trial [...]
March 11th, 2012 by Anna Bonini
by Alex Bates The Supreme Court Chamber has recently announced the final appeal judgment in the case against Duch at the ECCC in Cambodia. This particular model of ‘hybrid’ international criminal tribunal has been under intense and increasing criticism for most of its nearly six-year existence. The most serious complaints have been allegations of undue [...]
March 1st, 2012 by Anna Bonini
by Wayne Jordash The new IBA report: the ECCC – A failure of Credibility by Dr. Mark Ellis, alongside the Opening Speech filed by the Nun Chea team, makes uncomfortable reading about the state of international criminal justice and the ECCC in particular. As recently commenced Case Number 2 before the ECCC moves forward into [...]
February 27th, 2012 by Anna Bonini
by Michiel Pestman, Nuon Chea Defence (23 November 2011) On 21 November 2011, the Extraordinary Chambers within the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) commenced their second and probably last trial of alleged leaders of the of the Khmer Rouge. As defence counsel for the first Accused, Nuon Chea, popularly known as Brother Number 2, I was entitled [...]
February 27th, 2012 by Anna Bonini
By Alexandre Prezanti On 3 February 2012, the Supreme Court Chamber (“SCC”) at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (“ECCC”) issued its judgement on appeal in the case of Kaing Guek Eav alias Duch (“Duch Case”). This was the first Final Judgement issued by the hybrid court in Phnom Penh. Much academic ink [...]
