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Who Next?

December 18, 2008 00:21

After being stymied by an entrenched culture of impunity and vacillating political will at home and abroad, Cambodia’s international criminal tribunal—officially named the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (right)—is up and running. As we've blogged before, the tribunal was estab...

JCE before the ECCC

November 24, 2008 19:22

As we’ve blogged before, the August 8, 2008 Closing Order (Indictment) filed before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) (its first) with respect to defendant Duch. Duch, who ran the detention, interrogation and execution camp S-21, a.k.a. Tuol Sleng (above) (photo credit), h...

Guest Blogger: Anne Heindel

November 15, 2008 20:15

It's IntLawGrrls' great pleasure to welcome as today's guest blogger Anne Heindel (right).Anne's a Legal Advisor to the Documentation Center of Cambodia. She advises the Center's Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia Response Team, and manages its legal associate program. Her guest post...

Detention & the well reasoned opinion

November 15, 2008 17:51

My thanks to IntLawGrrls for inviting me to contribute this guest post, another in the Khmer Rouge Accountability series.The Co-Investigative Judges of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia recently found that there were well founded reasons to believe that Nuon Chea committed crimes...

International Crimes and Statutes of Limitation

October 30, 2008 17:55

We’ve blogged before on open doctrinal questions that will face the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (below right) once they face the merits of the allegations against the former Khmer Rouge defendants in custody. An obvious additional question relates to the applicable statute of l...