Critics Worry Over Value of Expensive Tribunal

By Kong Sothanarith, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
17 March 2010

With millions more dollars budgeted for the Khmer Rouge tribunal, at least some observers are questioning the value of the UN-backed court.

Donor countries have approved an $85 million budget for the next two years of the court, which has so far tried only one Khmer Rouge leader, the prison chief Kaing Kek Iev, or Duch.

The court is working toward its second trial, of five jailed leaders, but Jean-Michel Filipi, a French researcher who travels from province to province, told VOA Khmer the “immense” budget of the court is unlikely to produce revelations from those on trial.

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