Tribunal Decides Not To Call Former Premier

A former top communist official Pen Sovann faces the media at a press conference in Phnom Penh Wednesday, April 30, 1997. (Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS)

The Pre-Trial Chamber of the Khmer Rouge tribunal has rejected a request by the defense team of Nuon Chea to call a former Cambodian prime minister to testify in an upcoming case.

By Sok Khemara, VOA khmer
Washington
Friday, 09 April 2010

The Pre-Trial Chamber of the Khmer Rouge tribunal has rejected a request by the defense team of Nuon Chea to call a former Cambodian prime minister to testify in an upcoming case.

Nuon Chea’s defense attorney, Son Arun, had wanted to call Pen Sovann, Cambodia’s first prime minister after the fall of the Khmer Rouge. He had appealed an investigating judges decision not to call Pen Sovann, but he said he received news Wednesday his appeal had been rejected.

Son Arun told VOA Khmer Wednesday the court was failing to call witnesses to history, including six government officials that have so far refused to answer summonses by the investigating judges.

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