AFP
PHNOM PENH — Cambodia’s UN-backed war crimes tribunal on Tuesday rejected demands to pursue a politically-sensitive new Khmer Rouge case that has divided the court.
The investigating judges said the prosecution failed to follow procedure when filing a request for unnamed suspects to be interviewed for their alleged crimes as members of the brutal 1975-79 regime to be prosecuted.
In a written statement, the judges said international co-prosecutor Andrew Cayley’s request was invalid because he hadn’t done the necessary paperwork to file the requests without the backing of his national counterpart.
Cayley and his Cambodian colleague Chea Leang are openly at odds over how to proceed with the case, with Leang saying the suspects, thought to be two ex-Khmer Rouge commanders, are outside the court’s jurisdiction.
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