The Phnom Penh Post

Sary updates ‘a sham’: lawyer

International co-lawyer for defendant Ieng Sary said that daily medical reports about his client coming from the court’s detention facility were based on a skewed interpretation of Sary’s health.

More staffers join walkout threat at Khmer Rouge tribunal

Cambodian members of the Khmer Rouge tribunal’s Trial Chamber joined the court’s national administrative staff in calling for the prompt payment of back salaries.

Lawyers granted preparation time

Defence, civil party and prosecution teams all asked for more preparation time for hearings pushed forward due to the continued hospitalisation of Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan.

Khmer Rouge court national side still waiting for paychecks

Staff on the Khmer Rouge tribunal’s chronically under-funded national side sent a letter to the tribunal’s administrators with a simple ultimatum: pay us, or replace us.

Health concerns still front and centre at court

Nuon Chea co-counsel Victor Koppe notes his client’s “deteriorating” health during a day devoted to document hearings, but reassures the court the hearings could go on in his absence.

Future of Case 002 precarious due to defendants' illness

Khmer Soviet Friendship Hospital held all three defendants over the course of a day, underscoring how precarious the future of Case 002 may be.

Khmer Rouge court nixes hearings due to Nuon Chea’s health

The Khmer Rouge tribunal announces that it will suspend hearings due to the ongoing health concerns of co-accused Nuon Chea.

Nuon Chea bronchitis halts trial

Hearings at the Khmer Rouge tribunal were postponed indefinitely after Brother Number Two Nuon Chea was hospitalised with acute bronchitis.

Punishment thought harsh even by cadres

That the Khmer Rouge system of justice – as exemplified in brutal security centres like the infamous S-21 – was notoriously harsh is well known, but what is less well known is that at times it seemed so even to Khmer Rouge stalwarts like ex-regiment commander Oung Ren.

KR purge came close to claiming witness

As a Khmer Rouge sol­dier stationed in Ratanakkiri province since 1975, Oung Ren had seen several comrades purged; in 1977, his commander told him he, too, had been denounced.