Duch's Lawyer: Duch To Be Transferred To KR Tribunal’s New Detention Facility

Duch To Be Transferred To KR Tribunal’s New Detention Facility
The defense attorney of Kaing Khek Iev, known as Duch, said Friday that he had heard that his client would be transferred from military prison to newly-built detention center which had just been finished earlier this month at the Khmer Rouge (KR) Tribunal. Meanwhile, the wife of former president of Democratic Kampuchea State Presidium claimed that her husband’s foreign lawyer would arrive at Phnom Penh in early August. These are the preparation of the suspects of the genocidal crimes during the KR regime for justice in the tribunal which is moving gradually forward.
On Friday, Kar Savuth, lawyer of Kaing Khek Iev, better known as comrade Duch, chief of infamous S-21 torture center during the KR regime, said that he had heard that Duch would be sent to the KR Tribunal jail next week.
Comrade Duch has been held in Military Prison since 1999. However, Kar Savuth refused to give the source of the news and said abruptly: “We could predict it.”
Kar Savuth said that Duch was wishing to go to the new place and said that his client had been waiting longingly to answer in the tribunal in order to find out the truth. He added that Duch was not worried about anything since he knew clearly that “in a communist regime, if a man didn’t listen to the order, he would be killed.”
Democratic Kampuchea State Presidium President’s wife, Sar Socheat, said Thursday that her husband’s French lawyer Jacques Vergés would arrive at
\u003c/font\>\u003c/p\>\n\n\u003cp\>\u003cfont size\u003d\"3\" face\u003d\"Times New Roman\"\>\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-size:12.0pt\"\>Sar Socheat said\nthat her husband had already had a lawyer who volunteered to represent her\nhusband without fees. She said that the lawyer once came to her house last\nyear. Sar Socheat claimed that in this circumstance, her husband, Khieu\nSamphan, would not talk to journalists.\u003c/span\>\u003c/font\>\u003c/p\>\n\n\u003cp\>\u003cfont size\u003d\"3\" face\u003d\"Times New Roman\"\>\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-size:12.0pt\"\>It should be\nremembered that in February 2004, Khieu Samphan said that he was a close friend\nto Vergés since the time he had been a student in France in 1950. “He and I\nattended many meetings of the Student Committee against the colonialism. The\nparticipation in those meetings made us good friends until the present\ntime,” he said at that time.\u003c/span\>\u003c/font\>\u003c/p\>\n\n\u003cp\>\u003cfont size\u003d\"3\" face\u003d\"Times New Roman\"\>\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-size:12.0pt\"\>The KR Tribunal\nannounced on July 18, 2007 that the Co-Prosecutors had sent the names of 5\nsuspects to the Co-Investigating judges, but those names hadn’t been made\npublic yet. However, Khieu Samphan is likely to think that he would be\none of the 5 suspects. Sar Socheat said that her husband had known that he\nwould be indicted, subpoenaed, and detained. “We’re also worried,\nbut we don’t know whether they have to detain him or not,” she\nsaid. “My husband had never committed anything wrong during the regime\nwhich killed 1.7 million Cambodians,” she said defending her husband.\n“He had never done anything affecting the people and the nation... He\nnever had any soldier with him. Is there any real evidence [to accuse him]? He\nis never afraid. He knows that he hadn’t done anything affecting\nanyone.” \u003c/span\>\u003c/font\>\u003c/p\>\n\n\u003cp\>\u003cfont size\u003d\"3\" face\u003d\"Times New Roman\"\>\u003cspan style\u003d\"font-size:12.0pt\"\>Rupert Skillbeck,\nhead of Defense Support Section of the KR Tribunal, said that so far there had\nbeen approximately 20 foreign lawyers registering at the court. However, he\ndidn’t mention whether Jacques Vergés was amongst those lawyers.\nSkillbeck said that all the international lawyers who wished to represent their\nclients before judges had to register at the Cambodian Bar Association (CBA)\nand the process would take a month. He said that unless they wanted the court\nto provide them fees for their work, all the lawyers didn’t have to\nregister at the KR Tribunal. All the lawyers will register at the CBA through\nthe KR Tribunal. ",1]
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Cambodia in early August in order to defend her husband. Khieu Samphan announced in early 2004 that Vergés would defend him when the KR Tribunal indicted him.
Sar Socheat said that her husband had already had a lawyer who volunteered to represent her husband without fees. She said that the lawyer once came to her house last year. Sar Socheat claimed that in this circumstance, her husband, Khieu Samphan, would not talk to journalists.
It should be remembered that in February 2004, Khieu Samphan said that he was a close friend to Vergés since the time he had been a student in France in 1950. “He and I attended many meetings of the Student Committee against the colonialism. The participation in those meetings made us good friends until the present time,” he said at that time.
The KR Tribunal announced on July 18, 2007 that the Co-Prosecutors had sent the names of 5 suspects to the Co-Investigating judges, but those names hadn’t been made public yet. However, Khieu Samphan is likely to think that he would be one of the 5 suspects. Sar Socheat said that her husband had known that he would be indicted, subpoenaed, and detained. “We’re also worried, but we don’t know whether they have to detain him or not,” she said. “My husband had never committed anything wrong during the regime which killed 1.7 million Cambodians,” she said defending her husband. “He had never done anything affecting the people and the nation... He never had any soldier with him. Is there any real evidence [to accuse him]? He is never afraid. He knows that he hadn’t done anything affecting anyone.”
Rupert Skillbeck, head of Defense Support Section of the KR Tribunal, said that so far there had been approximately 20 foreign lawyers registering at the court. However, he didn’t mention whether Jacques Vergés was amongst those lawyers. Skillbeck said that all the international lawyers who wished to represent their clients before judges had to register at the Cambodian Bar Association (CBA) and the process would take a month. He said that unless they wanted the court to provide them fees for their work, all the lawyers didn’t have to register at the KR Tribunal. All the lawyers will register at the CBA through the KR Tribunal.
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Concerning the transfer of Duch to the KR Tribunal jail, Skillbeck claimed that up to present no any suspect’s name had been released. “But if Duch’s name has already been pointed, it can be assumed that he will be moved soon since he has already been in prison,” said Skillbeck, adding that he was not sure when the transfer would be made.
Informal Translation-Extracted from Sralanh Khmer, Vol. 03, #465, Sunday-Monday, July 29-30, 2007