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.

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

A Curious Statement by the Cambodian Co-Prosecutor

"[I]t is true that the pros­ecution has charged the five people with genocide," said Chea Leang, adding, how­ever, that prosecutors will only ask judges to prepare genocide charges if suffi­cient evidence is found. "If the co-investing judges think there are genocide cases, charges must be imposed.”

It is an interesting statement. Wouldn't the approval of the Co-Investigating Judges (CIJs) be routinely necessary to levy any type of charges? If so, what exactly is the point of this statement?

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