Khieu Samphan’s defense team has appealed his conviction in Case 002/02 for genocide of the ethnic Vietnamese, crimes against humanity and grave breaches of the Geneva Convention.
Cambodia's vaccine drive also includes some of Cambodia’s notoriously overcrowded prisons where COVID-19 outbreaks were underreported and hard to control.
Legal experts say renewed divisions between international and Cambodian court members will likely result in dismissal of the case against Meas Muth.
In this essay, Youk Chhang states that Cambodia could be a country in which the survivors of mass atrocities and genocide receive reparations that involve restorative medical care, services, and support from the international community.
Vice has since taken the article off its website and released a statement saying it was investigating the issue.
In charge of a notorious S-21 extermination camp, Kaing Guek Eav – commonly known as comrade Duch – presided over the killings of at least 16,000 people.
Duch died on Sept. 2, while serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity and the deaths of more than 16,000 people.
Kaing Guek Eav or 'Comrade Duch' was the first member of the Khmer Rouge leadership to face trial for his role within a regime blamed for at least 1.7 million deaths in the "killing fields" of Cambodia from 1975 to 1979.
The Day of Remembrance was canceled as part of the government’s efforts to increase workdays in the year.
Mao Ran told VOA Khmer he knew little of what was to unfold at Koh Tang and was only instructed to protect the island and the regime’s interests.
On Tuesday, Say Chhum, deputy chairman of the ruling Cambodian People Party, also issued a letter to the party's provincial offices ordering them to postpone any commemorative events on May 20.
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