I am waiting to see if KRT will plan to arrest 3 more KR officials!
The international community has urged the co-judges and the co-prosecutors to revise laws and evidence in order to indict 3 other former senior Khmer Rouge officials.
Up to now, five former Khmer Rouge leaders have been detained pending trial. They include: Ieng Sary former deputy Prime Minister and foreign minister; Khieu Samphan, former chairman of State Presidium; Nuon Chea, former president of People’s Representative Assembly; Ieng Thirith, former minister for health and social actions; and Kaing Guek Eav, a.k.a. Duch, former chief of Tuol Sleng prison, known as S-21 torture center.
However, in the Khmer Rouge tribunal’s compound, eight detention cells have been built, and five of them have been occupied.
An unofficial source said that the 3 former Khmer Rouge leaders to be charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes are the military officers who are currently serving in the Cambodian Royal Armed Forces after their integration with Phnom Penh Government in 1996.
Civil society organizations’ officials deem the plan to arrest 3 more senior Khmer Rouge leaders not important because they think the tribunal should try the five Khmer Rouge detainees very soon in order to give justice to Cambodian victims and indicate justice to almost 2 million Cambodians who died during the Khmer Rouge’s reign of terror.