Mom Kunthear
The Phnom Penh Post
Officials from the Ministry of Culture and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia met last week to discuss reparations for civil parties in future cases at the war crimes tribunal.
Seng Sought, director of the Culture Ministry’s international relations department, said the ECCC had requested talks on the construction of a memorial at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum that would contain the names of civil party victims.
“The Ministry of Culture … did not deny the request but said that if a memorial could not be built, a stupa in the Khmer style might be possible,” he said. An official annual day of commemoration for victims is also being considered, he added.
In its first verdict, handed down last year against former Tuol Sleng prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, the court granted requests of civil parties to have their names printed in the judgment and to have statements of apology by the accused collected and published.
However, the court refused other forms of reparations proposed by civil party lawyers, including the building of stupas and funds for victims.
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