ECCC Reparations

This blog is designed to serve as a repository of analyses, news reports and press releases related to the issue of RERAPATIONS within the framework of the Extraordinary Chambers in Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), a.k.a. the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.

Friday, December 14, 2007

Cambodia's PM criticises UN

Cambodia's PM criticises UN
Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen has criticised the United Nations for not renouncing its past relations with the Khmer Rouge.Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen has criticised the United Nations for not renouncing its past relations with the Khmer Rouge.During that period, the United Nations still allowed the regime to represent the country before the world body.Opening a student building, Hun Sen made the statement that in the past, the UN supported the Khmer Rouge, but now it will try the regime's surviving leaders in court.He says the UN has never said its past policy to allow Khmer Rouge leaders to represent Cambodia at the United Nations was wrong.Established in July 2006 after nearly a decade of negotiations between Cambodia and the UN, the joint Cambodian UN tribunal seeks to prosecute crimes committed by senior Khmer Rouge leaders.

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