Apr 4, 2011
DPA
Phnom Penh – A Cambodian-American human rights activist whose parents were murdered by the Khmer Rouge filed an application Monday at the UN-backed war crimes tribunal asking that it recognize her as a victim in two cases still under investigation.
Theary Seng said she had done so partly in an effort to pressure the court to continue investigating five former Khmer Rouge cadres for crimes committed during the regime’s bloody rule from 1975-79.
Last year, the tribunal sentenced security chief Comrade Duch to 35 years. That verdict is being appealed. The court is expected to commence hearings against four senior leaders of the movement later this year.
But the court has also been investigating another five ex-Khmer Rouge. They are referred to as cases three and four, and would constitute the last cases the tribunal would hear.
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