Sunday, October 11, 2009

Khmer Rouge case judge 'biased'

Ieng Sary's lawyers say the judge has trampled over his rights
Saturday, October 10, 2009
By Guy De Launey
BBC News, Phnom Penh

Lawyers for Cambodia's former foreign minister have called for the removal of the judge investigating his role in the Khmer Rouge era.
Ieng Sary is charged with crimes against humanity for his part in the deaths of as many as two million people in the late 1970s.
His defence team claims the judge at the UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal, Marcel Lemonde, is biased.
The controversy is the latest in a series of problems to hit the tribunal.

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