Friday, 04 December 2009 06:53 DAP-NEWS
(Posted by CAAI News Media)
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday again confirmed that Cambodia is willing to see the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (KRT) fail, but does not want to see war again.
The confirmation comes after a KRT Co-Prosecutor asked for charges to be filed against more KR leaders. The KR regime resulted in the deaths of nearly 2 million Cambodians cruel torture, starvation, disease and execution.
“I am not interfering with the court. But it is not the court that stopped the war. Be careful—the court will create war, causing division of society again,” Hun Sen said in a speech the capital Phnom Penh. ”Again and again, I see they want to question. Be careful, this is the issue of death,” Hun Sen said during a ceremony to bring attention to the plight of disabled people.
He went on to repeat warnings that he would rather see the court fail than to expand prosecutions beyond the 5 former KR leaders currently detained for their roles in the KR regime.
Final arguments in the court’s first trial, that of S21 prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch, concluded last week. The court plans to prosecute former Khmer Rouge ideologue Nuon Chea, head of state Khieu Samphan, foreign minister Ieng Sary and his wife, minister of social affairs Ieng Thirith sometime in 2011.
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