Tuesday, 19 June 2012
By Bridget Di Certo
Phnom Penh Post
Democratic
Kampuchea scholar Ben Kiernan has proven himself an “uncooperative”
witness whose body of work on the Khmer Rouge amounts to “little if any
probative value”, frustrated judges at the Khmer Rouge tribunal said in a
memorandum dated June 13.
The Yale professor of history and
director of the Ivy League college’s genocide studies program,
originally told the court he was “too busy” to give testimony in its
landmark Case 002 until sometime in 2013, and then only by videolink.
Kiernan,
who built his international reputation and success upon his expertise
on Democratic Kampuchea, had since been ignoring requests of the chamber
to schedule his testimony at a more practicable time and in a more
efficient way.
“In reality, the ECCC has few practical means at
its disposal to compel the attendance of an uncooperative witness,” the
judges said. “It follows from the Trial Chamber’s inability to call
Professor Kiernan, that his conclusions can have little if any probative
value in Case 002.”
To contact the reporter on this story: Bridget Di Certo at bridget.dicerto@phnompenhpost.com
1 comment:
American so called scholar in k.R ,don't know anything,that why he didn't show up to testify on tribunal court, or perhaps he is scares of Hunsen regime.Don't trust American expert,he know only theory, not facts most of the time...
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