The Cambodian side needs about $9.5 million to operate in 2013.
Cambodian
and foreigners judges and prosecutors sit during a press conference
inside the court hall of Khmer Rouge Tribunal headquarters in Phnom
Penh, Cambodia, Wednesday, June 13, 2007. Cambodian and international
judges announced guiding rules for a U.
25 December 2012
Washington -- Cambodian officials at the Khmer Rouge tribunal have
warned their staff that salaries for December will be delayed by several
weeks, with the UN-backed court currently out of money and short on
funding for the next year.
The court, which has a Cambodian side and an international side, has
been struggling with financing for several years, as an atrocity crimes
trial of three Khmer Rouge leaders, only the second case before the
court, continues.
The Cambodian side needs about $9.5 million to operate in 2013.
So far the Cambodian side has one pledge, from Germany, of $700,000.
“Unlike previous years, the national side has received no new funding
pledges from donor countries for 2013,” a statement from the tribunal
said.
“There will be a lack of cash flow to pay the national staff, ranging
from drivers to prosecutors and judges,” Kranh Tony, acting head of the
tribunal, said in a staff meeting on Friday, according to the
statement.
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