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| Rob Hamill lost his brother to the Khmer Rouge death camps. Photo / Rhys Palmer |
Thursday Apr 7, 2011
NZPA
“If the ECCC drop Case 003/004 this would be equally unacceptable.”
Former Olympic rower Rob Hamill takes a step closer in his quest for justice for his murdered brother Kerry tomorrow.
Kerry Hamill ended up in a Cambodian prison when the yacht he and friends were sailing strayed into Cambodian waters on August 13, 1978.
One crewman, Canadian Stuart Glass, was shot while Mr Hamill and Briton John Dewhirst were taken for interrogation and torture for two months before being killed by the Khmer Rouge regime.
Tomorrow Hamill plans to lodge an application to become a civil party in Case 003/004 against Khmer Rouge commanders Meas Muth and Sou Met, two of the five individuals believed to be under investigation by the United Nations personnel at the Office of Co-Investigating Judges of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC).
His Civil Party application will be only the second to be submitted to the ECCC for the case, the first being from Cambodian human rights activist and Khmer Rouge survivor Ms Theary Seng on Monday.
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