Complaint against Marcel Lemonde Increases
Khieu Samphan’s co-defence lawyer Sar Sovann has already made decision to file a complaint to remove Marcel Lemonde’s position as international co-investigating judge at the Khmer Rouge tribunal.
He sued the co-investigating judge for not respecting professional code. ”Marcel Lemonde has no rights to instruct investigating official to find only inculpatory evidence,” he said. “His task is to find both inculpatory and exculpatory evidence.”
Genocidal Crime Center Built to Commemorate the Dead in Pol Pot Regime
A Kampong Thom’s genocidal crime center in Democratic Kampuchea (DK) was built to store ashes of over 1,000 victims killed under Pol Pot-led genocidal regime.
The center construction is to symbolize Khmer Rouge victims’ pains and to commemorate and dedicate to the dead during the regime.
Tribunal to Close Case 002 Complaints in Mid-November
Cambodia’s UN-backed war crimes court announced to close complaints filed by civil parties in case 002 in mid-November 2009.
The judicial investigation in case 002 will conclude at the end of 2009. Any person who wishes to become a civil party in case 002 should submit to the victims unit their civil party application as soon as possible, preferably before mid November 2009.
Case 002 currently relates to charges against Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Ieng Thirith and Khieu Samphan.
Duch Rejects Witness’s Testimony, Torture Record
Former Tuol Sleng prison Chief Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch, in a hearing on 27 July rejected a witness who claimed to have worked as Tuol Sleng prison guard, Kok Sros, 59.
Kok Sros claimed that he was really a staff at S-21 security center or Toul Sleng prison from 1975 to 7 January 1979 by order of Duch. Duch also rejected a brutal torture instruction record included into a book written by David Chandler.
Tuol Sleng ex-guard, interrogator testifies
Tuol Sleng ex-guard and integrator Prak Khan testified before Cambodia’s war crimes court for trial against former Tuol Sleng prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, best known as Duch on 21 July 2009.
Prak Khan said Duch taught him and other interrogators the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) policy relating to interrogation method and torture technique.
Prak Khan said Duch taught interrogators to extract confession from prisoners allegedly linked to CIA or KGB and Vietnamese spies. The interrogation was to find prisoners’ network. Duch was also instructed interrogators to force prisoners to drink their urine and eat excrement and forced the prisoners to confess.
KR tribunal appoints Japanese woman as UN side’s spokesperson
A Japanese woman, a former journalist in Cambodia, was appointed as Public Affairs Officer for the Khmer Rouge tribunal to ensure the flow of information to the public and to media effectively.
The appointment of Yuko Maeda, former Public Information Officer in the UN Mission in Liberia, as Public Affairs Officer to the Khmer Rouge tribunal was welcomed by Japan, the biggest donor to the hybrid court, on 21 July 2009.
Reach Sambath, Public Affairs Chief at the Khmer Rouge tribunal, said Yuko Maeda would take her office, replacing Peter Foster. She would begin her job on Monday next week.