Tag Archive for 'Khmer Rouge'
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
