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Article: Infighting at Khmer Rouge tribunal continues unabated
Relations between key staff at the Khmer Rouge tribunal continued to plumb new depths this week after the UN’s reserve co-investigating judge announced he would reopen the investigation into the court’s controversial third...
Article: Khmer Rouge court runs out of cash
Cambodia's UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal has run out of money to pay the wages of hundreds of workers as contributions from donor countries have dried up, a court spokesman said Tuesday. None of the more than 300 Cambodians working at the...
Article: Tribunal brings no reconciliation to Cambodians
A handful of Cambodians, well advanced in years, are currently on trial in the capital of Phnom Penh. The country’s ruthless communist Khmer Rouge regime wiped out some two million civilian lives during its rule in the 1970s. Those...
Article: Losing civil parties in Cambodia
Soum Rithy spent two years of his youth being beaten and tortured in a Khmer Rouge jail between 1977 and 1979, after Pol Pot’s cadres mistook him for a soldier in the previous government. He saw his father die of disease exacerbated...
Article: Plodding Ahead: Khmer Rouge trial wraps for the year
The United Nations-backed war crimes court in Cambodia this week wrapped up its work for 2011 in its case against three surviving Khmer Rouge leaders, who have all denied charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes....
Article: Cambodia: Paying justice no mind
Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes tribunal on Tuesday ruled against freeing the Khmer Rouge's ailing former "First Lady" on health grounds and said she would undergo medical treatment instead. The court's highest appeal body...
Article: Khmer Rouge - blame Vietnam
Nuon Chea, has blamed Vietnam for the mass killings that characterised the nearly four-year rule of Pol Pot’s ultra-Maoist movement from 1975-79. Its most senior living cadre was the first to speak in the trial of three surviving...
Article: French lawyer centre stage at Cambodia court
He has defended some of the world's most notorious figures, from Carlos the Jackal to Slobodan Milosevic. Now 86, lawyer Jacques Verges has added a Khmer Rouge genocide suspect to his resume. [related-articles]The elderly Frenchman...
Article: Khmer Rouge: solid case or fairytale?
Cambodia’s war crimes court heard the opening statements in the long-awaited trial of three surviving Khmer Rouge leaders this week, with the prosecution outlining what it says is a solid case against the accused and the defendants...
Article: No prosecution for former Khmer Rouge leader
Ieng Thirith, the 78-year-old former minister of social affairs in the Khmer Rouge regime, was declared "not fit to stand trial” on Thursday on the grounds of her dementia.
