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| The UNPROFESSIONAL Clowns-in-Justice robe (CIJs): Bandit You Bunleng (L) and Herr Doktor Siegfried Blunk (R) |
Sok Khemara, VOA Khmer
Washington, DC Tuesday, 24 May 2011
“Any impartial court would say that Cayley is in fact the one who operated professionally, and Blunk and You Bunleng are the ones who operated in a political way and unprofessionally.”
International legal observers of the Khmer Rouge tribunal say the apparent political pressure for two controversial cases have become a core issue in the legitimacy of the UN-backed court.
Government leaders and some Cambodian judges object to the prosecution of five more Khmer Rouge suspects in two cases, Nos. 003 and 004, a view that is not supported by the international prosecutor at the court nor by many of the victims of a regime responsible for the deaths of at least 1.7 million people.
Concern over the legacy of the court has come to the fore in recent weeks, as the tribunal moves toward a trial of four jailed leaders but has failed to advance cases 003 and 004.
Now the Cambodian and UN investigating judges, You Bunleng and Siegfried Blunk, are at odds with prosecutor Andrew Cayley, who says he will fight an order from their office to rescind public statements outlining further investigation he said is needed in the case.
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