Wheels of justice grind for Pol Pot henchmen but time is running out
In a bland courtroom on the outskirts of Phnom Penh next week the justice that most Cambodians believed had passed them by will finally begin to creak into motion.
Three decades after the fall of Pol Pot, the first trial of the leaders of his genocidal Khmer Rouge regime is to begin before a UN-backed tribunal - the Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC).
On Tuesday a thin, elderly former schoolmaster will stand in the dock accused of crimes against humanity committed 30 years ago.
Kang Kek Ieu, known as Comrade Duch, was the director of the infamous Tuol Sleng prison, the torture and interrogation centre in Phnom Penh where thousands of innocent people were sent to die.
Read entire article at Times (UK)
Three decades after the fall of Pol Pot, the first trial of the leaders of his genocidal Khmer Rouge regime is to begin before a UN-backed tribunal - the Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC).
On Tuesday a thin, elderly former schoolmaster will stand in the dock accused of crimes against humanity committed 30 years ago.
Kang Kek Ieu, known as Comrade Duch, was the director of the infamous Tuol Sleng prison, the torture and interrogation centre in Phnom Penh where thousands of innocent people were sent to die.