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| Expand Dame Silvia Cartwright. Photo / NZPA |
Wednesday Nov 23, 2011
By Amelia Wade
NZHerald.co.nz
Lawyers for two Khmer Rouge leaders accused of genocide in Cambodia have demanded that former New Zealand Governor-General Dame Silvia Cartwright be stood down as a trial judge.
They accuse Dame Silvia – New Zealand’s first woman High Court judge before she was appointed to Government House – of having secret meetings with prosecution staff over the past year, a Phnom Penh news site reported.
But Nil Nonn, president of the special international court, has rejected the lawyers’ request, saying the issue will be addressed “in due course”.
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