PHNOM PENH (AFP) – Judges investigating two new Khmer Rouge cases at Cambodia’s United Nations (UN)-backed war crimes tribunal have failed in their duties and should resign, a leading rights group said on Monday.
‘The Cambodian people have no hope of seeing justice for mass murder as long as these judges are involved,’ Human Rights Watch (HRW) Asia director Brad Adams said, blaming political interference for an insufficient investigation.
New York-based HRW said the two judges, Cambodia’s You Bunleng and Germany’s Siegfried Blunk ‘have failed to conduct genuine, impartial, and effective investigations’ into alleged crimes by five ex-Khmer Rouge members.
‘It appears likely that both cases will be dropped without a serious investigation having taken place,’ it added.
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