The EU’s leadership team must renew pressure on Libyan authorities to come up with an alternative to this system of arbitrary detention
Cambodia’s war crimes court has been rocked by the second resignation of an international judge amid a row over whether to pursue more regime members.
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/ 11 December 2011
The fading memories and illnesses of witnesses and accused in Cambodia’s historic Khmer Rouge trial is prolonging the justice process.
A top Khmer Rouge leader on trial in Cambodia has been confronted with dramatic footage in which he defends the regime’s bloody purges.
Cambodia and Vietnam, both emerging from a violent past, are intent on building a prosperous future.
Pressure from the Cambodian prime minister to limit its scope and donor fatigue are hobbling the process of bringing leaders to book for war crimes.
The Khmer Rouge’s main jail chief told a war crimes court on Wednesday he would like the "strictest level of punishment" — even death by stoning.
Judges at Cambodia’s UN-backed war crimes court grilled the former prison chief of the Khmer Rouge regime on Thursday about his notorious jail.
The Khmer Rouge’s prison chief on Monday told Cambodia’s UN-backed war crimes court that he had ”sacrificed everything” for the revolution.
The head of state under Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge appealed to be released from detention on Friday ahead of his trial at the UN-backed war crimes court.
Lawyers for the former chief torturer of Cambodia’s genocidal Khmer Rouge on Wednesday requested his release from prison.
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/ 18 February 2009
Cambodia’s ”Killing Fields” tribunal on Wednesday ploughed through lists of witnesses set to testify in the first trial of a senior Khmer Rouge cadre
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/ 16 February 2009
Cambodia’s United Nations-backed war crimes court on Monday made final preparations for its long-awaited first public trial of a Khmer Rouge leader.
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/ 17 December 2008
Ali Alatas, hailed for brokering the historic 1991 peace settlement to end the war with Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, has died of a heart attack.
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/ 17 December 2008
Ali Alatas, one of Indonesia’s most widely respected foreign ministers, has died. He was 76.
Cambodia on Tuesday quietly marked the 10-year anniversary of Khmer Rouge dictator Pol Pot’s death, amid fears that time is running out to try ageing regime leaders before a genocide tribunal. Pol Pot, the tyrant who turned Cambodia into killing fields in the late 1970s, died on April 15 1998, reportedly from a heart attack.
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/ 19 November 2007
Former Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan was formally detained and charged on Monday with war crimes and crimes against humanity by Cambodia’s United Nations-backed genocide tribunal, a court spokesperson said. "The co-investigating judges have detained him for a period of one year," tribunal spokesperson Reach Sambath said.
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/ 29 September 2007
Burma or Myanmar? As the military regime has cracked down on pro-democracy protests in the Asian country this week, a war of words has flared again over what to call the troubled nation. The United States and the BBC prefer the old name, Burma, while the United Nations, Japan and other nations have adopted Myanmar.
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/ 19 September 2007
Khmer Rouge ”Brother Number Two” Nuon Chea, Pol Pot’s top surviving henchman, was arrested on Wednesday at his house on the Thai border and taken to Phnom Penh to face the United Nations ”Killing Fields” tribunal. Nuon Chea was arrested by a squad of Cambodian special forces soldiers, police and Western security guards.
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/ 14 September 2007
Who is George Bush? A gaffe-ridden buffoon? The man who confronts the evildoers? Or is he Bush as Bush sees himself, the decider, a leader who makes the hard choices and sticks to them? In just 16 months’ time, the job of working out who Bush really is will move out of the world’s newsrooms and into the book-lined studies of historians.