Judicial Reform Not Moving Fast Enough: Experts

Seng Theary, president of the Center for Justice and Reconciliation.

Sok Khemara, VOA Khmer
Washington, D.C
Friday, 25 June 2010

The justice system is plagued by a history of bad luck and the lack of current political will for reform, despite efforts to rebuild it since the arrival of the UN in the early 1990s, legal development experts told “Hello VOA” Thursday.

The legacy of the Khmer Rouge, which destroyed the courts, and former control by Vietnam both hampered the development of the system, said Seng Theary, president of the Center for Justice and Reconciliation.

“It is only now that we have time to think about restoring the courts, which began in 1993 when Untac and the international community entered,” she said.

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