The Phnom Penh Post

The Rutgers, Newark Law School will host a symposium this Friday, April 2, featuring an extensive panel discussion about the Khmer Rouge tribunal. Speakers will include Khmer Rouge survivor and activist Theary Seng, Fulbright Fellow Randle DeFalco, DC-Cam Legal Associates Jared Watkins and Andrew Diamond, and others.

The panel ("The ECCC: The Issues and Challenges of Prosecuting the Senior Leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime") is part of the larger event "Human and Economic Dimensions of the Law in Asia."

More information about the symposium is available here. If you are interested in attending, RSVP to ruils@pegasus.rutgers.edu. 

Tribunal spokesmen Lars Olsen and Reach Sambath held a press conference Thursday at which they discussed the scope of the tribunal's second case.

Though they referred only generally to crimes, they presented a map of 20 execution sites, security centres, cooperatives and work sites spread across 16 provinces that have been implicated in the investigation.

Olsen said the tribunal had decided to release the information for the benefit of prospective civil party applicants, who must, in accordance with a revision to the Internal Rules adopted in September, submit applications no later than 15 days after the co-investigating judges announce that the investigation has been completed. The judges have said they would try to complete the investigation by the end of the year. “Since the end of the investigation is approaching, the need to keep all information about what’s being investigated confidential is not as strong as it was in the beginning,” Olsen said.