Associated Press
10/13/10 11:21 AM PDT PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA — Cambodia's U.N.-backed genocide tribunal has moved its five Khmer Rouge prisoners out of the custom-built jail in Phnom Penh where they have been held because it is at risk of flooding after heavy rains this week, a spokesman said Wednesday. Tribunal spokesman Lars Olsen did not disclose where they were moved to Tuesday. The five are among the former leaders of ultra-communist regime during whose 1975-79 rule an estimated 1.7 million people were executed or died from overwork, disease and malnutrition. In July, the regime's chief jailer, Kaing Guek Eav — also known as Duch — was sentenced to 19 years in prison for war crimes, crimes against humanity, torture and murder. Duch, 67, was the first defendant to be tried. He supervised the notorious S-21 prison where as many as 16,000 people were tortured before being executed. The other four are expected to be tried starting in the middle of next year. They are Nuon Chea, 84, the group's ideologist; former head of state Khieu Samphan, 79; former Foreign Minister Ieng Sary, and his wife Ieng Thirith, ex-minister for social affairs, both in their 80s.
The five have been detained since 2007 and aside from trips to the nearby court, have gone virtually nowhere else except for occasional hospital visits.
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www.dap-news.com/en .Thursday, Oct 14th
UN Secretary General to See PM Hun Sen, and Khmer Rouge Tribunal
Wednesday, 13 October 2010 09:43 DAP NEWS / VIBOL
CAMBODIA, PHNOM PENH, Oct 13, 2010-The UN secretary General Mr. Ban Kim Moon will lead a high delegation to pay an official visit to Cambodia from 26- 28 October, 2010, the statement from foreign ministry of Cambodia said on Wednesday. It added Mr. Ban will be received in Royal audience by King Norodom Sihamoni. And Mr Ban also will hold an official talk with PM Hun Sen and during his visit; Mr. Ban also will visit the UN- Cambodia tribunal and Khmer Soviet friendship Hospital in Phnom Penh. This is the second UN secretary general to visit Cambodia in the UN history. United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali visited Cambodia while UNTAC helps organize general election in Cambodian in 1991-1993. Previously, PM Hun Sen revealed that he will be likely to ask Mr. Ban to be mediator for solving the border issues between Cambodia and Thailand. Mr. Ban is former South Korean Foreign Minister who used to visit Cambodia in 2008 while he seat as foreign minister. UN and Cambodia is strengthening fruitful cooperation and UN AIDS Committee just handed over the award for Cambodia in fighting against AIDS. Thanked UN for helping Cambodia both development and peace since 1990s. .
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- Duong Dara
- Dara Duong was born in 1971 in Battambang province, Cambodia. His life changed forever at age four, when the Khmer Rouge took over the country in 1975. During the regime that controlled Cambodia from 1975-1979, Dara’s father, grandparents, uncle and aunt were executed, along with almost 3 million other Cambodians. Dara’s mother managed to keep him and his brothers and sisters together and survive the years of the Khmer Rouge regime. However, when the Vietnamese liberated Cambodia, she did not want to live under Communist rule. She fled with her family to a refugee camp on the Cambodian-Thai border, where they lived for more than ten years. Since arriving in the United States, Dara’s goal has been to educate people about the rich Cambodian culture that the Khmer Rouge tried to destroy and about the genocide, so that the world will not stand by and allow such atrocities to occur again. Toward that end, he has created the Cambodian Cultural Museum and Killing Fields Memorial, which began in his garage and is now in White Center, Washington. Dara’s story is one of survival against enormous odds, one of perseverance, one of courage and hope.
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