9 May 2011
AFP
The international co-prosecutor at Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia on Monday called for the unnamed suspects in a politically sensitive new Khmer Rouge case to face questioning.
In a written statement, Andrew Cayley urged the co-investigating judges to examine more crime sites and “summon and question the suspects”, adding that he felt their alleged crimes “have not been fully investigated”.
In its landmark first trial, the court sentenced former prison chief Kaing Guek Eav to 30 years in jail in July for overseeing the deaths of 15,000 people during the brutal 1975-1979 regime.
That case is now under appeal, while a second trial involving four of the regime’s most senior surviving leaders is due to start in the middle of the year.
But the court has been tight-lipped about progress into potential third and fourth cases against another five members of the regime, whose identities remain confidential and details sketchy.
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