Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by DE JONG Alex
Amid the devastation of war, Pol Pot’s genocidal regime came to power and led to the death of over a million Cambodians. Its roots didn’t lie in its “utopianism,” but in imperialist war and authoritarianism.
The Communist Party of Cambodia (CPK), better known as the Khmer Rouge, was the last (...)
, by TAING Rinith
Today, Con Dao prison in southern Vietnam is a museum dedicated to the Vietnamese who fought for independence from the French. But Cambodian nationalists were also locked up in that brutal space, and their story has been largely overlooked over the years.
It was a windy evening in February (...)
, by KURCZY Stephen
PHNOM PENH - Slung over Nic Dunlop’s shoulder on Tuesday was the same vintage Leica he used a decade ago to photograph the Khmer Rouge’s former chief of secret police and publicize his whereabouts.
Dunlop was standing outside the Khmer Rouge tribunal where Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, (...)
, by POSTLEWAITE Susan
Long-delayed justice in Cambodia may be denied yet
Although the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge have been unfolding in a Phnom Penh courtroom for three weeks, a toxic mix of corruption allegations, political interference and a money shortage threaten to shut the tribunal down, even as the (...)
, par PILGER John
In an article for the Guardian, John Pilger calls on his long experience with Cambodia’s struggles in lamenting missing faces in the dock at the UN-backed trial of crimes committed during the Khmer Rouge period. Where are Pol Pot’s accomplices and collaborators in the West ?
At my hotel in (...)
, by CAIN Geoffrey
Phnom Penh—Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch, sat cold and haggard before a panel of judges, the teacher-turned-torturer etched with the frailty of a 10-year detention leading up to a hearing on Tuesday that laid the groundwork for a full trial in March. Some onlookers here said his eyes were watering. (...)
, by EHRLICH Richard
A court-appointed attorney seeks to defend Cambodia’s indefensible Khmer Rouge
After decades of delay, an international trial starts this week in Cambodia against five of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge, whom most of the world hold responsible for one of history’s most heartless and murderous regimes. (...)
, by Human Rights Watch
Court’s Independence Remains a Concern as Khmer Rouge Trials Begin
(New York) - Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge tribunal, about to begin its first trial, should resist political interference and meet international fair trial standards, Human Rights Watch said today. The tribunal is prosecuting Khmer (...)
, by Sopheng Chean
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 (...)
, by KHIMM Suzy
Cambodia finally starts to bring a handful of ageing war criminals to trial for sowing the killing fields.
Nearly three decades after Cambodia’s murderous Khmer Rouge were ousted from power, the first of a handful of geriatric accused war criminals — a 66 year-old former prison chief named Duch (...)
, by MYERS Allen
Phnom Penh,
The special court established to try the former leaders of the Khmer Rouge held its first public sessions on November 20 and 21. The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) is a Cambodian tribunal assisted by international judges, lawyers and administrative (...)
, by Sopheng Chean
Police arrested the ex-foreign minister of the brutal 1970s Khmer Rouge regime and his wife Monday and brought them before Cambodia’s U.N.-backed genocide tribunal to face charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes.
A military convoy takes former Khmer Rouge foreign minister Ieng Sary, (...)
Again and again, in hurried and sometimes passionate voices, villagers rose to ask two prosecutors from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal the same questions: Why did Khmers kill Khmers? Why were they supported by the outside world? Why did the Khmer Rouge follow these policies of killing? Why did Khmers (...)
, by ZINN Howard
Historian Howard Zinn’s account of the brief but disatrous invasion of a Cambodian island by a small US force which suffered massive casualties. It was in response to Cambodia holding the crew of an American cargo ship, with the intention of re-asserting US military dominance in the wake of its (...)
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