Cambodian News

PHNOM PENH (AFP) — The former Khmer Rouge “First Lady” launched an angry tirade at Cambodia’s UN-backed genocide tribunal on Tuesday, telling her accusers they would be “cursed to the seventh circle of hell.”
Ieng Thirith, 76, facing trial for crimes against humanity under the communist regime, at first told the court that defence lawyers would [...]

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – A U.N.-backed court in Cambodia will start its first trial next month of a former interrogator of the Khmer Rouge regime, blamed for the deaths of 1.7 million people in the “Killing Fields” over 30 years ago.
The trial of Duch, 66, who was in charge of a torture centre known as [...]

Cambodia’s younger generation still lacks information on both the Khmer Rouge regime and the government-UN tribunal established to try its leaders, according to a recent survey by a US university.
Between September and October last year, the Human Rights Center of the University of California Berkeley conducted a survey of 1,000 Cambodians aged 18 and above.
“What [...]

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — A U.N.-backed tribunal in Cambodia said Monday that it will begin the trial of the first of five Khmer Rouge leaders accused of crimes against humanity in mid-February. Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, will appear at an initial hearing on Feb. 17, a court document said.
Duch, 65, who headed [...]

PHNOM PENH (AFP) — Cambodia’s UN-backed genocide tribunal is mounting a media blitz to urge more Khmer Rouge victims to participate in the upcoming trial of the regime’s prison chief, a court spokeswoman said Tuesday.
The court on Monday set February 17 as the start date for the long-awaited trial of Kaing Guek Eav, better known [...]

Evidence and witnesses were the main topics of discussion among Khmer Rouge tribunal officials and attorneys in meetings Thursday, with a trial date for prison chief Duch to be decided Friday, officials said.
The main point of Thursday’s meeting was to give an opportunity to all parties to discuss the upcoming trial, tribunal spokesman Reach Sambath [...]

Trial Chamber officials of the Khmer Rouge tribunal will meet with defense and civil party attorneys Thursday to discuss the upcoming trial of jailed prison chief Duch.
The tribunal judges and prosecutors will discuss with attorneys evidence, witnesses and procedures for the hearing of Duch, whose real name is Kaing Kek Iev.
“We will consider the situation [...]

Cambodian judges lashed out at defense attorneys for jailed Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea Friday, claiming a suit they filed in Phnom Penh Municipal Court against alleged corruption in the courts damaged their honor and dignity.
“We would like to state that all the judges of this Court entered into service by decision of the Supreme [...]

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Thousands of Cambodians celebrated Wednesday the fall of the murderous Khmer Rouge regime 30 years ago as a UN-backed tribunal prepared to finally try some of its key leaders for crimes against humanity.
More than 40,000 people packed Phnom Penh’s Olympic Stadium for speeches and a parade to mark the day [...]

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Thousands of Cambodians celebrated Wednesday the fall of the murderous Khmer Rouge regime 30 years ago as a UN-backed tribunal prepared to finally try some of its key leaders for crimes against humanity.
More than 40,000 people packed Phnom Penh’s Olympic Stadium for speeches and a parade to mark the day Vietnamese [...]