Phnom Penh, Jan 29 (Kyodo) The Japanese government announced that it decided to provide a further USD 11.7million to the UN-assisted tribunal set up to try former Khmer Rouge leaders.
The Japanese Embassy yesterday said that USD 8.8 million is for the international component and USD 2.9 million is for the national component of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (pictured), as the tribunal is formally known.
"This contribution will cover 25 percent of the ECCC''s operational cost throughout the year 2011," it said in a statement.
The ECCC, which has spent more than80 million since being set up in 2005 though it has so far convicted only oneKhmer Rouge figure, has a budget of USD 87.1 million for2010-2011.
Japan is its single largest donor, accounting for nearly half of the total pledges and contributions to date.
The embassy said this year is critical for the ECCC''s judicial proceedings with the hearings of appeal of the case of former chief jailer Kaing Guek Ieu, alias Duch, to commence at the Supreme Court Chamber and trials of five other Khmer Rouge leaders to commence at the Trial Chamber.
Calling the trials an important part of the Cambodian peace process, the embassy said they are intended to prevent the recurrence of the atrocities committed during the Khmer Rouge regime and deliver justice to the victims.
It said they are also needed to help strengthen the rule of law in Cambodia.
The trials of Nuon Chea, the Khmer Rouge regime''s chief ideologue, Ieng Sary, its foreign minister, Khieu Samphan, its nominal leader, and Ieng Sary''s spouse Ieng Thirith, who was minister of social affairs, are expected to start in the latter half of 2011.
The Khmer Rouge leadership is blamed for the deaths of at least 1.7 million people during its rule in the late 1970s.
(Kyodo)
The Japanese Embassy yesterday said that USD 8.8 million is for the international component and USD 2.9 million is for the national component of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (pictured), as the tribunal is formally known.
"This contribution will cover 25 percent of the ECCC''s operational cost throughout the year 2011," it said in a statement.
The ECCC, which has spent more than80 million since being set up in 2005 though it has so far convicted only oneKhmer Rouge figure, has a budget of USD 87.1 million for2010-2011.
Japan is its single largest donor, accounting for nearly half of the total pledges and contributions to date.
The embassy said this year is critical for the ECCC''s judicial proceedings with the hearings of appeal of the case of former chief jailer Kaing Guek Ieu, alias Duch, to commence at the Supreme Court Chamber and trials of five other Khmer Rouge leaders to commence at the Trial Chamber.
Calling the trials an important part of the Cambodian peace process, the embassy said they are intended to prevent the recurrence of the atrocities committed during the Khmer Rouge regime and deliver justice to the victims.
It said they are also needed to help strengthen the rule of law in Cambodia.
The trials of Nuon Chea, the Khmer Rouge regime''s chief ideologue, Ieng Sary, its foreign minister, Khieu Samphan, its nominal leader, and Ieng Sary''s spouse Ieng Thirith, who was minister of social affairs, are expected to start in the latter half of 2011.
The Khmer Rouge leadership is blamed for the deaths of at least 1.7 million people during its rule in the late 1970s.
(Kyodo)
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