ABC Radio Australia
Cambodia's war crimes tribunal has indicates it might investigate another five or six senior Khmer Rouge leaders for their part in the genocide of the 1970s. Five top officials are currently being prosecuted and the trial for the first, Duch, the chief of the torture prison Tuol Sleng, or S-21 is underway.
Presenter: Liam Cochrane
Speaker: Michelle Staggs Kelsall, who monitors the Khmer Rouge tribunal for the Asian International Justice Initiative.
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KELSALL: I think the short answer is that it's at the start of a longer process, although the international prosecutor has said in the media that he will go ahead with forwarding two introductory missions to the co-investigating judges, which basically will kick-start an investigation. So I think at least there is going to be the start of an investigation by the co-investigating judges. Now whether there is further dispute at that level as to whether the investigation should go forward is yet to be seen.
COCHRANE: And do you know who those two submissions are - who the people possibly to be investigated are?
KELSALL: No, in order to protect the fair trial rights of any new suspects, as well as the integrity of the investigations process, the names of those identified have not been publicly disclosed. There is some media speculation as to who they might be or at least what positions they might hold, with most people speculating that they would be senior government and military people, potentially people who have held positions in those states as late as 2006.
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