Music, Sighs, and Bathroom Breaks

  • by Christine Evans, Clinical Fellow, Center for International Human Rights, Northwestern University School of Law (JD and LLM)
  • — 7 Dec, 2011

The delays and difficulties that have plagued the proceedings of Trial 002 at the ECCC continued into the third day of evidentiary hearings, with no end in sight. During Wednesday’s proceedings, the court dealt with problems ranging from health issues of a civil party to funeral music that threatened to drown out and derail a videoconference with the prosecution’s first witness. The frustration and tension that has been evident in this trial since it began two weeks ago show no signs of abating…

Read more: ctm_blog_12-07-11_CTM Blog Entry_Trial 002

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