Source: Deum Ampil newspaper
Reported in English by Khmerization
Prime Minister Hun Sen (pictured) has confirmed that there was a UN plan in 1999 to have Duch, the Khmer Rouge chief torturer, tried in a Belgian court, reports Deum Ampil.
In a public speech on the second anniversary of the Veteran Day this morning (Saturday 20th) at Chaktomouk Theatre, Mr. Hun Sen re-affirmed the plan by a UN official in charge of human rights in Cambodia to evacuate Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, to be tried in a Belgian court 10 years ago, at the time when the UN was still discussing with Cambodia about a possibility of setting up a tribunal to try ex-Khmer Rouge leaders inside Cambodia. The PM said: "With this kind of action and gesture, how can they continue to defend human rights in Cambodia?"
In April 2009, Duch had told the tribunal that, in 1999 Christophe Peschoux, then the official at the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Cambodia, came to see him at his home on the Khmer-Thai borders and offered to help him escape to Thailand through Poipet International Checkpoint so he could be arrested and sent to be tried in Belgium.
Peschoux is now one of the senior officials working at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. Duch said that at that time Peschoux and his interpreter had offered him money to cross into Thailand as part of a plan to have him arrested and tried for his crimes in Belgium. Duch told the court: "The international police would arrest me and then I would be sent to Belgium."
Reported in English by Khmerization
Prime Minister Hun Sen (pictured) has confirmed that there was a UN plan in 1999 to have Duch, the Khmer Rouge chief torturer, tried in a Belgian court, reports Deum Ampil.
In a public speech on the second anniversary of the Veteran Day this morning (Saturday 20th) at Chaktomouk Theatre, Mr. Hun Sen re-affirmed the plan by a UN official in charge of human rights in Cambodia to evacuate Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, to be tried in a Belgian court 10 years ago, at the time when the UN was still discussing with Cambodia about a possibility of setting up a tribunal to try ex-Khmer Rouge leaders inside Cambodia. The PM said: "With this kind of action and gesture, how can they continue to defend human rights in Cambodia?"
In April 2009, Duch had told the tribunal that, in 1999 Christophe Peschoux, then the official at the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Cambodia, came to see him at his home on the Khmer-Thai borders and offered to help him escape to Thailand through Poipet International Checkpoint so he could be arrested and sent to be tried in Belgium.
Peschoux is now one of the senior officials working at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. Duch said that at that time Peschoux and his interpreter had offered him money to cross into Thailand as part of a plan to have him arrested and tried for his crimes in Belgium. Duch told the court: "The international police would arrest me and then I would be sent to Belgium."
2 comments:
I think if UNESCO were to unlist the temple as WORLD HERITAGE. then the thai will put full war against cambodia or they just replicate preah vihear on the thai side. the thai do get bully and tricky. if this were true. i think we should invade thialand. Malaysia from the south,loas from the north,and burma from the west and so on. etc,etc....
don't believe the thai words any more. we should grab that temple and land and gave thai a finger from now on. if they step one inch in our land we should kill them like rabbits.
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