Robert Carmichael
Australian Network News
The Cambodia government has announced it's investigating foreign court staff at the Khmer Rouge tribunal for corruption.
It comes after a long-running dispute with the United Nations over corruption allegations on the Cambodian side of the court.
The Cambodian government and the United Nations have had a difficult relationship in setting up and running the Khmer Rouge tribunal.
The relationship between the two partners worsened this week after a government spokesman said Phnom Penh had collated files on all foreign United Nations staff and was monitoring them for corruption.
It has caused an outcry with one foreign lawyer describing the move as "childish and thuggish".
The government back-pedalled a little on Thursday, saying it wasn't actually monitoring foreign staffers, just investigating claims that some had committed unnamed "misdeeds".
The United Nations has said those claims should be handed over to it for investigation.
It comes after a long-running dispute with the United Nations over corruption allegations on the Cambodian side of the court.
The Cambodian government and the United Nations have had a difficult relationship in setting up and running the Khmer Rouge tribunal.
The relationship between the two partners worsened this week after a government spokesman said Phnom Penh had collated files on all foreign United Nations staff and was monitoring them for corruption.
It has caused an outcry with one foreign lawyer describing the move as "childish and thuggish".
The government back-pedalled a little on Thursday, saying it wasn't actually monitoring foreign staffers, just investigating claims that some had committed unnamed "misdeeds".
The United Nations has said those claims should be handed over to it for investigation.
1 comment:
cambodia should have not pay for this stupid court. done already and stop wasteing money. what is the problem for us government to monitor? are they have something to hide. and stop calling us a thugs you foreigns scums. who bomb cambodia? now who the war crime then. YOU SCUMS.
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