What does an 85-year-old accused war criminal sound like? Here's a short clip of Nuon Chea speaking in court today, sans interpreter.
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"They did so much damage to my family, but they just sit there without anything to worry about."
Kup Aisha sits on her bed, her wrinkled hands folded over a flowing skirt. She has the TV on in the background, though she barely glances at it.
Today, Aisha will walk into a courtroom on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, and stare into the faces of the people she holds responsible for her misery.
In a country where the Khmer Rouge are blamed for the deaths of one-quarter of the population, justice has many meanings. In this radio piece for PRI's The World, I look at one woman's story.
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The United Nations must address a “crisis of confidence” at the beleaguered Khmer Rouge war crimes tribunal in Cambodia following the resignation of a controversial judge, critics say.
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"Some things we should believe. Other things, we shouldn't.
In Phnom Penh this week, a war crimes tribunal will begin long-awaited legal proceedings in a trial against four senior Khmer Rouge leaders. In schools in what was the last stronghold of the regime, children have only recently begun learning about their parents' past.
My radio piece looks at how the children of one-time Khmer Rouge see their families' histories, and how former cadres explain war to the first Cambodian generation in decades to grow up without it.
This story first aired on PRI's The World.
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There are no publicly named suspects, no defence lawyers and no official victims. And soon, court observers in Cambodia fear, there will be no further Khmer Rouge trials.
On a Friday evening in late April, the United Nations-backed war crimes tribunal quietly announced that co-investigating judges had wrapped up their investigations into the third of four cases looking into crimes of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime. But the court has never publicly identified the suspects under investigation in what’s become known here as Case 003, nor has it reached out to potential victims.
The move, court observers say, is another sign the tribunal will not proceed with what has become a politically charged case.
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