US Envoy To Hold Tribunal Talks
Clint Williamson By Kong Sothanarith, VOA Khmer Original report from Phnom Penh 14 May 2009 Clint Williamson, the US ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues, is scheduled to arrive in Cambodia next week to hold talks with the government on the beleaguered Khmer Rouge tribunal, officials said Thursday. UN Passes Strong Resolution on Cambodia Human Rights Abuses Feb. 27, 1982 : UN Commission on Human Rights meeting in Geneva adopted a resolution condemning Vietnam’s occupation of Cambodia as a violation of Cambodian human rights. The vote was 28 in favor, 8 against, and 5 abstentions. Oct. 21, 1986 The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution A/RES/41/6, by vote of 116-21 with 13 abstentions, calling for a withdrawal of Vietnamese forces from Cambodia. Kaing Kek Iev, aka Duch, was arrested in 1999. According to the Morphology study on race and forensic data nalysis ,Kaing Kek Iev, aka Duch is A VIETNAMESE. 100 TORTURE CENTERS across CAMBODIA. Vietnam's occupation of Cambodia 1979-1989 under Le Duc Tho rule. An estimated 460 000 innocent Cambodians died , killed , tortured, etc... 100 Torture centers were established across Cambodia. (Methods of torture described to Amnesty International). Methods of torture described to Amnesty International as being used by the Vietnamese forces of invasion and occupation of Cambodia under Le Duc Tho's rule, from 1979-1989, through the CPP/HUN SEN regime.( an estimated 460 000 innocent Cambodians died during that period) 1. Beatings with truncheons, sharp-edged wooden staves, and iron bars and whippings with chains and rubber hoses.( Methods of torture described to Amnesty International) 2. Near-suffocation with plastic bags,( Methods of torture described to Amnesty International) 3. Near-drowning in vats of water,( Methods of torture described to Amnesty International(Methods of torture described to Amnesty International) VIETNAM INVASION & OCCUPATION OF CAMBODIA IS CONDEMNED: Oct. 21, 1986 The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution A/RES/41/6, by vote of 116-21 with 13 abstentions, calling for a withdrawal of Vietnamese forces from Cambodia. Again Vietnam, has not respected the 10 UN resolutions calling Vietnam to cease her occupation of Cambodia and remove all her troops from the country. America too, she sees the Vietnamese leaders as liars expressed in this statement made by the US President Reagan. US president Reagan calls Vietnam to restore Cambodia Independence . President Reagan's address to the 43d Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, New York,September 26, 1988. "Mr. Secretary-General, there are new hopes for Cambodia, a nation whose freedom and independence we seek just as avidly as we sought the freedom and independence of Afghanistan. We urge the rapid removal of all Vietnamese troops ...." The Cambodian side of the UN-backed special court is facing a budget crisis, its funding withheld by donors and the UN over lingering allegations of kickbacks and mismanagement. Three rounds of talks between a UN legal envoy and Deputy Prime Minister Sok An failed to reach an agreement on how the court should handle allegations that Cambodian staff pay substantial kickbacks to senior officials in order to work at the court. A government spokesman said Williamson would meet with Sok An May 22. From: chaub...@hotmail.com To: camdisc@googlegroups.com CC: angkorboreine...@yahoo.com; soy.soph...@ctn.com.kh; v...@free.fr; vacheahranoro...@hotmail.com; khmer-serv...@voa.gov; monib...@gmail.com; dapn...@gmail.com; khmerizat...@gmail.com; blogbykh...@gmail.com; khmer.mchas.s...@gmail.com; dendeysereyph...@yahoo.com Subject: Lars Olsen, spokesman for the UN Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials. Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 14:49:07 -0700 ��Mr Lars Olsen must read this first UN Passes Strong Resolution on Cambodia Human Rights Abuses Feb. 27, 1982 : UN Commission on Human Rights meeting in Geneva adopted a resolution condemning Vietnam��s occupation of Cambodia as a violation of Cambodian human rights. The vote was 28 in favor, 8 against, and 5 abstentions. �� Oct. 21, 1986 The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution A/RES/41/6, by vote of 116-21 with 13 abstentions, calling for a withdrawal of Vietnamese forces from Cambodia. �� Kaing Kek Iev, aka Duch, was arrested in 1999. According to the Morphology study on race and forensic data nalysis ,Kaing Kek Iev, aka Duch is A VIETNAMESE. �� 100 TORTURE CENTERS across CAMBODIA. Vietnam's occupation of Cambodia 1979-1989 under Le Duc Tho rule. An estimated 460 000 innocent Cambodians died , killed , tortured, etc... 100 Torture centers were established across Cambodia. (Methods of torture described to Amnesty International). Methods of torture described to Amnesty International as being used by the Vietnamese forces of invasion and occupation of Cambodia under Le Duc Tho's rule, from 1979-1989, through the CPP/HUN SEN regime.( an estimated 460 000 innocent Cambodians died during that period) 1. Beatings with truncheons, sharp-edged wooden staves, and iron bars and whippings with chains and rubber hoses.( Methods of torture described to Amnesty International) 2. Near-suffocation with plastic bags,( Methods of torture described to Amnesty International) 3. Near-drowning in vats of water,( Methods of torture described to Amnesty International(Methods of torture described to Amnesty International). CAMBODIA REMAINS OCCUPIED BY VIETNAM 1979-2009 AGAINST THE 10 UN RESOLUTIONS THAT THE UN STAFF OMIT TO READ RENDERING THE UN TRIBUNAL AS A MONKEY SHOW AS OF TODAY AND THE COUNTRIES THAT SUPPORT THE TRIAL AS THE COUNTRIES WHO PERPETUATE THE VIETNAMESE OCCUPATION OF CAMBODIA AND CRIMES AGAINST THE CAMBODIAN PEOPLE. Thursday, May 14, 2009 UN urges disclosure of 'files' Thursday, 14 May 2009 Written by Robbie Corey-Boulet and Georgia Wilkins The Phnom Penh Post UNAKRT says any information of wrongdoing by UN officials at the Khmer Rouge tribunal should be handled by them A UN spokesperson at the Khmer Rouge tribunal said Wednesday that he "would expect" government officials to hand over to the world body the findings of a government-led monitoring effort targeting foreign workers at the UN-backed court. "We would expect that the government or anyone else who has any information of misdeeds by UN staff members at the [tribunal] would submit such information to the UN," said Lars Olsen, spokesman for the UN Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials. "[The UN] will then process such information in accordance with UN global procedures, specially emphasising due process," he added. Officials with the Cambodian side of the court declined to comment. Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan described files kept on foreign staffers at the tribunal in an interview with the Post Tuesday, saying government officials were "monitoring" international staff in an effort to detect corrupt acts "that might discredit" the court's work. However, he said Wednesday it would be misleading to refer to the effort as "monitoring". Rather, he said, officials were "verifying" certain complaints of misdeeds given by a source he declined to name. "We didn't believe the complaints [of wrongdoing] in a file we were given, so we are verifying them in good faith," he said. He declined to elaborate on the verification efforts, or whether information would be sent to the UN. 'No breakdown of trust' Several lawyers and court monitors said on Tuesday that the government's decision to maintain files on foreign staffers amounted to inappropriate interference and even intimidation. They also expressed concern over what Michelle Staggs Kelsall, a court monitor for the East-West Centre's Asian International Justice Initiative, described on Tuesday as "a complete breakdown of trust between" the Cambodian and international sides of the court. Phay Siphan said Wednesday that such concerns were unfounded. "There is no breakdown between the two sides," he said. "We are still talking." But Olsen said there were "no more meetings scheduled" between Cambodian officials and Peter Taksoe-Jensen, the UN's top legal official who has travelled to Cambodia several times to discuss the establishment of an anti-corruption mechanism at the court that would satisfy international donors, many of whom are reluctant to fund the Cambodian side of the court because of unresolved graft allegations. Several donor countries were silent on the issue Wednesday. Fabyene Mansencal, first secretary of the French embassy, declined to answer questions for this article. No one at the European Commission delegation to Cambodia or the Japanese embassy was available for comment. Hotmail�� goes with you. 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