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WSD Handa Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Stanford University ,Cambodia Programs #outreach #transitional #justice #research #cambodia

[FORUM-ASIA @forum_asia]

🔴Live now! Defenders in #Asia: Holding the line amid mounting challenges. Join the conversation on the situation & ways forward for those who bravely advance #humanrights across the region.

This is a @UN_HRC #HRC49 Side Event.

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[Post Khmer @postkhmer]

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[KRT Trial Monitor @KRT_Monitor]

"No matter what you decide, I will die in prison. I will die always remembering the suffering of my Cambodian people. I will die seeing that I am alone in front of you. I am judged symbolically rather than by my actual deeds as an individual. That's the end, thank you." (15/15)

[KRT Trial Monitor @KRT_Monitor]

"Many years after sitting as a defendant, at the end of this long case, it is important for me to inform you and especially inform the Cambodian people that I have never wanted to commit a crime against my compatriots or against anyone else..." (14/15)

[KRT Trial Monitor @KRT_Monitor]

"I am not a lawyer, but my lawyers have talked about the law and the errors of the Trial Chamber in my conviction. I declare that I cannot accept the accusation that I was involved in a plot to commit crimes against my compatriots, including the Cham or the Vietnamese..." (13/15)

[KRT Trial Monitor @KRT_Monitor]

"And in the press, I see that the issues of independence, integrity, and border problems persist until today. This makes me cry out loudly, that I cannot accept it. It makes me fear for the future of my country..." (12/15)

[KRT Trial Monitor @KRT_Monitor]

"respected by its neighbors, especially Vietnam. The Co-Prosecutors and the Trial Chamber presented my speeches during the war when Cambodia was invaded by Vietnam, or presented the speeches which include the targeting of the Vietnamese people living in Cambodia..." (10/15)

[KRT Trial Monitor @KRT_Monitor]

"where my compatriots could live & jointly build a future together after having put back the economy which was destroyed during the many years of war. I have always wanted Cambodia to be an independent country, to be a sovereign country, with its territorial integrity..." (9/15)

[KRT Trial Monitor @KRT_Monitor]

"rather targeting the CPK. The alleged policies do not correspond to the political line of the CPK. It is not consistent with my own position as well. I never wanted and wished for anything else for my country other than the independence and sovereignty..." (8/15)

[KRT Trial Monitor @KRT_Monitor]

"in any forms. No matter whether it was the genocide against the Vietnamese, the murders, I have never committed them, nor forced marriages. The Trial Chamber has demonstrated its inabilities to judge me impartially. It is clear that, through me, the Chamber was..." (7/15)

[KRT Trial Monitor @KRT_Monitor]

"What I can inform your Honors is that I have never committed any joint criminal enterprise. I categorically refuse the accusations and the convictions that I had the intention to commit the crimes, no matter when it was, any crimes, be they crimes against humanity..." (6/15)

[KRT Trial Monitor @KRT_Monitor]

"were committed. I was accused and convicted of the crime of genocide against the Vietnamese and crimes against humanity, and I was convicted that I was responsible for the forced marriages through the joint criminal enterprise..." (5/15)

[KRT Trial Monitor @KRT_Monitor]

"crimes against humanity through a joint criminal enterprise. The Trial Chamber has additionally convicted me again of crimes that I dispute. I would like to inform Your Honors that the crimes which were allegedly committed by me, in fact I do not know where they..." (4/15)

[KRT Trial Monitor @KRT_Monitor]

"a place I do not know the whereabouts of and even now I do not know where it is. You did however confirm my conviction for crimes against humanity in relation to the evacuation of the population out of the cities and provinces, by stating that I had committed..." (3/15)

[KRT Trial Monitor @KRT_Monitor]

"Today is the last opportunity for me to speak before Your Honors. The Trial Chamber has convicted and sentenced me twice to life imprisonment. The 1st time, you accepted my appeal of the judgment for my guilt for the massacre of Khmer Republic soldiers in Tuol PoChrey..." (2/15)

[KRT Trial Monitor @KRT_Monitor]

Final statement (from monitor notes) of #KhieuSamphan on appeal at the #ECCC #KRT Supreme Court Chamber in #Case002_02 #Case002:

"Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen taking part in these hearings, Venerable Monks in all pagodas throughout the country, all compatriots..." (1/15)

[Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia @KRTribunal]

Main topics of the third day Appeal Hearings of the Supreme Court chamber of the #ECCC are focused on "Grounds of appeal relating to #KHIEUSamphan's individual criminal responsibility" and " Grounds of appeal relating to the sentence".

[Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia @KRTribunal]

Civil Parties attended the Appeal Hearing in Case 002/02 against #KHIEUSamphan at #ECCC as SCC, on 18 August 2021, resumes the hearings, focuses on "Grounds of appeal relating to KHIEU Samphan's individual criminal responsibility" and " Grounds of appeal relating to the sentence"

[KRT Trial Monitor @KRT_Monitor]

Defense Counsel for #KhieuSamphan also presents flaws in the Trial Chamber's conviction of crimes against humanity of other inhumane acts in relation to forced marriage and rape in context of those marriages... (1/2)

[Rosemary Grey @Rosemary_Grey]

Thanks to Sydney Southeast Asia Centre for hosting my talk on Wartime Sexual Violence Against Men in the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. My co-authors Sarah Williams, Kum Somaly and I will follow the upcoming appeal hearings and report back on the final judgment! @somalykum2010 @seacsydney