DPA
Phnom Penh - The defence in Cambodia's war crimes tribunal showed signs of falling apart Thursday as the trial of former Khmer Rouge prison camp commander Comrade Duch entered its scheduled final day. Duch's international defence lawyer Francois Roux, in his last appearance as a defence lawyer before taking up a position at the UN's Special Tribunal for Lebanon, told the court that the closing arguments advanced on Wednesday by his Cambodian defence counterpart, Kar Savuth, had undermined Roux's own planned closing statement.
"We have had to revise the entire plan of our pleadings after Mr Kar Savuth's pleading yesterday afternoon," Roux said in his opening remarks at the joint UN-Cambodian tribunal in Phnom Penh.
Roux told the court there had been "disagreements" within the defence team.
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