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Concern Mounts Over Credibility of the Court
The UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal is steadily working toward it biggest, more complicated trial to date, but that trial has been overshadowed in recent months by the court’s handling of two additional cases, which has seen the resignation of one UN judge and an emergency meeting with the UN’s top legal counsel and Cambodian officials. A growing number of court observers now say the court’s approach to cases 003 and 004 is derailing its credibility, even as it prepares to try four Khmer Rouge leaders for one of the worst atrocities of the 20 th Century Continue reading
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Ieng Thirith ‘Unfit’ for Trial, Defense Lawyers Say
Defense lawyers for jailed Khmer Rouge leader Ieng Thirith told the UN-backed tribunal on Thursday that her serious mental conditions should prevent her being tried. Continue reading
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Top UN Official To Look Into Political Interference at Tribunal
Patricia O’Brien, the head of the UN’s Office of Legal Affairs, will arrive in Cambodia this week, following the sudden resignation of a UN judge at the Khmer Rouge tribunal, officials said Monday. German judge Siegfried Blunk said his Oct. 8 resignation was due to continued statements by top Cambodian officials opposing two cases at the court, which critics have called evidence of continued political interference Continue reading
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Leading Researcher Calls on UN to Investigate Tribunal Judges’ Office
The head of the Documentation Center of Cambodia on Wednesday called for the UN to take “decisive action” to investigate the office of investigating judges at the Khmer Rouge tribunal, following the abrupt resignation of its international judge on Monday. The Documentation Center is a major researcher of Khmer Rouge atrocities, providing thousands of documents that have made the tribunal possible. Chhang Youk, director of the center, said the resignation of German judge Siegfried Blunk—who cited government statements against further indictments as his reason for quitting—required the UN to “restore the reputation” of the court Continue reading
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Controversial Tribunal Judge in Cambodia Quits, Cites Political Interference
German judge Siegfried Blunk says he has resigned from Cambodia’s U.N.-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal, apparently after a series of comments about the court by government ministers. His resignation comes a week after Human Rights Watch said he and his Cambodian counterpart should quit Continue reading
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Tribunal Suspect Finds Court’s Role ‘Limited’
[Editor’s note: Meas Muth, the former commander of the Khmer Rouge navy, is among five suspects in two cases before the UN-backed tribunal. International prosecutors maintain he was in the upper echelon of the regime, was responsible for purges in areas under his command and that he sent hundreds of people to the Tuol Sleng torture center, known to the regime as S-21 Continue reading
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