I observed the International Tribunal for trial of Khmer Rouge
: Lin Shaoqiang
this year at 9:00 on November 28, I came to about four kilometers away from Phnom Penh,
air force one, Cambodia IDF camp near the UN International Tribunal for Khmer Rouge trial.
the square outside the court, with dozens of parked cars, four, five large buses and more motorcycles.
hundreds of young students in school uniform and a dozen Westerners to line up to enter the courtroom.
I like them, first in the left window to complete the formalities: registration status, hosting my camera and mobile phone (camera and the court prohibited the phone), to receive an entry permit. And then to the right side of the door to line up and wait for inspection.
this day, the Museum of the notorious massacre of the executioner Kangke You S21 (KaingGuekEav) trial in the final program. The second floor of the main meeting room, the court, more than a thousand seats have been filled, can only watch TV live about forty small room downstairs has sold out. Neighbors with this small room, is the press room. About thirty men and women in Western reporters to have their own computers to concentrate and work intensely live situation.
I had to follow the hundreds of young students, about two dozen Westerners, and some Khmer greenhouses erected outside the court sitting in a chair under the terms of the big screen TV live. Here, people are free to drink mineral water. Shed at the end, a sale of bread, cooked food, snacks and drinks stalls.
more than a dozen countries including France, Canada and other countries of Western journalists and photographers court, Cambodia television reporter to interview around to the audience.
many staff members up and down the court,
air force one shoes, politely answer questions for the audience . They said the court every day, five hundred students came to observe the arrangements, they come from different provinces. They are coming at their own expense. The aim is to make the next generation understand the rule of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia had a history.
They said the hearing in February this year, also saw China and other Asian countries, journalists, and now they basically do not come. The Western journalists who have been here is an interview with perseverance, feel free to publish news of their country.
They also told me that the International Tribunal welcomes anyone, if it has evidence of former Khmer Rouge killings, for example, holes people buried the dead bones of the body, and so came to report, the International Tribunal must be arrange a time and personnel to escort them to gather samples for free without meter long way, the road difficult.
staff also pointed to the upper right of court, four, five armed soldiers guarding the construction of a plane, told me that four other Khmer Rouge prison where the big bosses: the former China President Khieu Samphan, Cambodia, the former Foreign Minister Ieng Sary, the former Cambodian Deputy General Secretary Nuon Chea and former social affairs minister , Ieng Sary's wife Britain Tidy. They are about eighty old. Four were separately isolated, but every day can watch live television on the court.
also placed a lot for people to live free of charge from the brochures and other printed matter, introduce the international tribunal to try Khmer Rouge's preparations, proceedings, Kangke You resume, seven judges,
Air Force 1 Classic Low, nine prosecutors, Fifteen of two defense lawyers and the qualifications of lawyers domestic law.
in the judges, prosecutors and lawyers in Seventeen Cambodian people, others from France (four), New Zealand, Australia {two}, the United States, the United Arab Emirates, India, Bailyn, United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany and French 玛拉加斯卡. Thirty -two of the above, eight are women.
Justice in Cambodia Nepal by the tender (NilNonn) as. Obtain his early years, Ho Chi Minh City University of Law degree, and in Battambang province in 1993 as a judge. He is familiar with international law and human rights law. In addition to the Cambodian language, he is also fluent in English and more languages.
television, mainly broadcast prosecutor Xie Lin (Chealeang) President lengthy speech, and occasionally there have sixty-year-old, wearing a light blue prison uniform Banjiu, age spots all over the gully on the face, eyes, Kangke You big picture without God.
each trial, rest and over, to stand by the Niger Justice announced tender.
court Kangke You Xie Lin is the main prosecutor. She graduated in 1995 from Germany Madinglute University Faculty of Law, 96, began his trial work of the Department, post and human rights law in the Danish study, participation in Japan's decision on the International Criminal Court.
half past ten,
air force one mid shoes, ninety-minute rest. Noon to continue the hearing. Then I can go two-site trial court landlord.
Here, each entry must undergo strict security checks again, even the monks are no exception.
hearing the bell rings, separated by a large audience hall of the court opened the curtain, across the glass , showing that the court sitting in the middle of two rows and upright judge, prosecutors and lawyers were sixteen, the following is the number of prosecutors on the left and right are two defense lawyers, recorder. Kangke You sit on the bottom right side of the dock, one on each side of his police guards to his left in the bottom, is the number of witnesses about ten people.
each audience seat, equipped with headphones, listen to court immediately to speak, respectively, Cambodia, Britain and France in three languages. In more than a thousand spectators, the vast majority of the local Khmers, followed by Westerners. Justice First Lebanon Nigeria
rise complex court announced. Then, the prosecutor rose to thank Lin began to continue her morning speech.
the International Tribunal for Khmer Rouge trial since February 17 this year, since the trial, the prosecutor on behalf of Xie Lin victims of the Khmer Rouge reign of the dead and nearly two million people across the country, column three the number of Khmer Rouge rule various periods of more than a year to various heinous crimes, such as driving with violence and lies to the remote mountain city people to fend for itself, forcing farmers in the country under extreme physical labor, and despite the super old and frail patients, so that people across the country suffering from hunger, disease the violence, to clear a large number of the decimation of the class enemy in the name of innocent people, there are many men and women the whole family all exterminated. They take the brutal means, including being buried alive, drowned Toujing, assassination, beheading, shot, etc.; during its first stage, the large number of people suspected of mass killings defected to Vietnam, when his resignation during the period, not again follow the exodus of thousands of people killed in situ. Lead to the provinces and cities, villages, mountains or forests no smoke all over the wreckage of people's bones. All the people killed are in no rescue, no resistance to extreme pain and died. All these are the people of the country and the Communist Party of Kampuchea's unforgivable heinous crime committed.
Xie Lin said, as the Cambodian Communist Party Central Committee Kangke You get a total level of trust in Cambodia, S21 was thrown into prison for seventeen thousand people, he has absolute power, without the slightest constraint to be catch the most violent to impose any means, including digging the eyes, saw the legs, the body hung upside down flooding , electrocution, peeling nails, knives puncture the abdomen of pregnant women, women nipple clip cut, shooting babies head...... So heinous torture. In addition to total due to the rapid fall of Cambodia, and others too late Kangke You killed a few people, all arrested persons died of torture, without exception, of them have their own cadres, soldiers,
mens air force 1 low, workers, doctors, a large number of farmers and their children ......
Xie Lin spoke these last few days, she spoke of the systematic summary of several months. To this end, she and her team have done a lot heavy work. Her sharp pungency of style, voice clear and loud. The force of justice indictment read out to her, she does not use the \ How many months,
Air Force 1 Classic Mid, her many hours a day to speak continuously, maintaining full of energy, no fatigue, deeply impressed the audience and judges.
Prior to this, many Cambodian farmers and Muslim people who have accounts in court to testify. Another important witness in court, he is survived S21 Holocaust Museum last seventy years of age ChumMey. A ten toes of his still incomplete, ears hard of hearing, some deformities, because the ears have received electric shocks.
However, the trial was not successful, Kangke You two defense lawyers, an internationally renowned French FrancoisRoux and Cambodia KarSavuth that witnesses are contradictory statements, repeated, incoherent, and so, some of the testimony is hearsay , or can not accurately answer their questions, etc., the judge can not use authentic.
this regard, Nigeria tender Justice to speak, to remind the two defense lawyers said that Cambodia is basically illiterate or semi-literate farmers, they will only use the plain language of Chen Zhi stated there is no legal sense, it is not All overthrow their testimony. Two lawyers and that the law can not be swayed by any opinion, and must have sufficient evidence.
order to obtain convincing evidence of the different parts of witnesses, judges, prosecutors, accompanied by defense counsel to a number of different areas to dig a lot of dead debris, scientifically validated to prove that the deceased died in the year the Khmer Rouge rule, is a serious injury or unnatural death of torture and so on.
defense counsel also proposed, however, Kangke You just execute the command, he can not defy superiors instructions. Otherwise, he must own there is no guarantee.
but in a lot of speaking about Kangke You have all the killing power of the victim, the victim can take any means of killing, from beginning to end their own planning, to handle and get the absolute trust of the central Cambodian evidence, the lawyers are finally free say.
Kangke You also admitted that a large part of the charges and apologized to the nation on television. This is why the trial of a Kangke You spent the whole reason for more than nine months.
Finally, thank the prosecutor asked the judge sentenced the defendant Lin Kangke You forty years in prison.
However, the sentencing Kangke You have to wait until next January.
said, the next is tried, the original --- Cambodian Foreign Minister Ieng Sary to wait until 2011 before trial. By this time forth, the whole end of the five remaining top Khmer Rouge leaders to drag the 2017 trial. Well, sure some people died due to old age and tried to escape in this Century.
(2009 年 12 月 15 日)