Published: 20-Feb-12 PHNOM PENH (Cambodia Herald) - The foreign lawyer defending Nuon Chea, the former deputy to Pol Pot known as Brother Number Two of the Khmer Rouge regime, said Monday he was ready for complaints from Prime Minister Hun Sen who has asked his legal team to consider a lawsuit against him.
"I am confident that I will be able to explain everything. I am ready for the complaints," said Dutch lawyer Michiel Pestman (pictured).
He added that Hun Sen could not say whatever he liked about Nuon Chea, who has been charged by the UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal with crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide.
"While my client is still in court, that is affecting my client's rights," said the lawyer, refering to Hun Sen's reported comments to Vietnamese media during a trip to Vietnam in early January.
Pestman said Hun Sen should wait for the verdict before commenting on the case, adding that the prime minister should respect the law and could not be above the law.
Hun Sen last week told his legal team to consider action against Pestman for accusing him of interfering in the trial of Nuon Chea and two other senior Khmer Rouge leaders.
Keo Remy, spokesman for the Council of Ministers, said Monday that Pestman wanted to be famous for attacking Hun Sen.
However, Pestman denied the accusation, saying that he did not care about fame.
On January 10, the Dutch lawyer accused Hun Sen of making statements that "prejudice our client and violate his rights to a fair trial", urging Khmer Rouge tribunal judges to "officially condemn these statements ... and ask the prime minister to refrain from such remarks in the future."
3 comments:
Hun Sen is hypocrite and a Vietnamese puppet. Wonder why Hun Sen flew to see his Vietnamese boss in January 2012 to protect his evil Vietnamese Hanoi bosses who involved the Killing Fields in the very secret plan by following the footstep of Ho Chi Minh to swallow Cambodia. Hun Sen is serving this Vietnamese boss, but not serving Khmer/Cambodian people.
Hun Sen is a piece of junk and expecting his Vietnamese boss to protect him by allowing to the Vietnamese military forces to shoot and kill Khmer people and Khmer opposition parties.
There is no doubt that Cambodia is still having the second Vietnam Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh secret Killing Fields in CPP led by Hun Sen after the first Vietnam secret Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh Killing Fields during the Khmer Regime.
Never trust Hun Sen and his Vietnamese leaders (Hun Sen's bosses) and Vietnam as a neighbor or friends because Vietnam is a poisonous snake.
Mr. Pestman, we, Khmer people, believe in you. Don't be afraid of Hun Sen and his Vietnamese bosses in Hanoi. Please, Mr. Pestman, tell the world, UN, EU, Khmer people abroad, USA, Canada, Japan, and other countries that Hun Sen and his Vietnamese bosses are very evils and they are the real Killers in the Killing Fields. My father was killed because of his higher education as a Surgeon and doctor and my other family members and I were survivors of the Killing Fields. The real Killers coming were from Vietnam during the Killing Fields from 1975 to 1979 and they were Khmer Vietminh (Heng Samrin, Chea Sim, Hun Sen, and other) and Vietminh. We know the Vietnamese secret plan to swallow Cambodia under the footstep of Ho Chi Minh. Ho Chi Minh was dead along time ago, but the Vietnamese leaders in Hanoi and some Vietnamese people still follow Ho Chi Minh today. As you can see that they the party in Cambodia as CPP. Later, Yuon CPP supporters and brainwashed Khmer/Cambodian leaders and young people will consider the next name called CVPP (Cambodia-Vietnam People Party) and then CVPP will be finally part of Indochina (Vietnam Country). Laos has already been gone to Indochina. I don't blame Pol Pot, Noun Chea, Ieng Sary, Khiev Samphan, and other Khmer Rouges heroes.
Cambodia is in the danger of CPP where the illegal Vietnamese officals and millions of illegal Vietnamese settlers in Cambodia created this CPP regime led by Vietnamese puppet Hun Sen. We as Khmer people are worried that we will be killed and exterminated by Vietnamese leaders and people from Vietnam and inside Cambodia in the next many years or decades to come. Please protect us Khmer/Cambodian people.
Nuon Chea, Khiev Samphan and Ieng Sary plus Pol Pot are absolutely right because they have told the truth and admitted their mistakes as well, but they are not really killers during the Killing Fields.
Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Khiev Samphan and Ieng Sary and their Khmer Rouges inner circles have been accused as the killers of Killing Fields instead. Some Khmer/Cambodian people are not well educated enough to know why and how the Killing Fields happened, what and who caused the Killing Fields.
Well done Pestman.
DO what you have to do, its your job and your right, you clients right is just as valuable as anyone else.
Dont allow this dictator to push you around. Thanks for fighting for the little justice that we have left.
Teach this uneducated Vietminh, the real rules of law, lets see him barking his way out of this one.
GOOD STUFF!
Good job Pestman,
We should save our rights on behalf of our client in any case and it is our primary role as a lawyer.
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