Saturday, October 31, 2009

New Tribunal Budget Anticipates More Indictments

By Sok Khemara, VOA Khmer
Original report from Washington
30 October 2009

Khmer Rouge tribunal administrators have completed a budget request for the next two years that anticipates the possibility of further indictments, an official said.
The indictment of more leaders of the regime is politically controversial, with Prime Minister Hun Sen and Cambodian judges contending further charges could endanger national stability.
“The ECCC has finalized the budget proposal for 2010 and 2011, which has taken into account that there might be an additional case three with five suspects,” said Lars Olsen, a spokesman for the UN side of the court. “But since the donors have not had a chance to look into the budget yet, we cannot go public with the figure.”
The proposal has been sent to UN headquarters in New York and will be presented to donors “very soon,” he said.

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