PHNOM PENH, 18 January 2013 (The Cambodia Herald) - Japan has announced $2.5 million for
the international side of the UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal.
Japan is a main donor for the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC), funding $78.7 million including $16.1 million for the national side since it was set up in 2006. The funds equal 44 percent of the total budget from donor countries.
The announcement by the Japanese Embassy Thursday followed a warning by the court in November that it did not have money to pay hundreds of workers from January because of a lack of new donor pledges. It said the funding crisis would affect 300 Cambodian employees including drivers, prosecutors and judges.
The Cambodian side of the hybrid court needs $9.5 million to operate in 2013, but has received no new funding pledges from donors yet.
The court, which has spent more than $160 million since its creation, has so far achieved just one conviction, sentencing a former S21 prison chief Kang Gech Eav to life in prison for overseeing the deaths of some 15,000 people.
Japan is a main donor for the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC), funding $78.7 million including $16.1 million for the national side since it was set up in 2006. The funds equal 44 percent of the total budget from donor countries.
The announcement by the Japanese Embassy Thursday followed a warning by the court in November that it did not have money to pay hundreds of workers from January because of a lack of new donor pledges. It said the funding crisis would affect 300 Cambodian employees including drivers, prosecutors and judges.
The Cambodian side of the hybrid court needs $9.5 million to operate in 2013, but has received no new funding pledges from donors yet.
The court, which has spent more than $160 million since its creation, has so far achieved just one conviction, sentencing a former S21 prison chief Kang Gech Eav to life in prison for overseeing the deaths of some 15,000 people.
On Wednesday last week, former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan, 81, was rushed to hospital due to weakness, fatigue and shortness of breath.
Nuon Chea, 86, was also hospitalized on Sunday with acute bronchitis prompting judges at the court to suspend trial proceedings.
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