Civil Party’s Challenge to Khieu Samphan to Account for the Disappeared Creates Drama and Tension in the Courtroom

  • by Doreen Chen, Senior Consultant, Destination Justice, and LLM, Columbia Law School
  • — 23 Nov, 2012

It was a dramatic day in the Case 002 hearing at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), with Khmer Krom civil party Chau Ny not only testifying about discrimination against the Khmer Krom during the period of the evacuation of Phnom Penh but concluding his testimony with a controversial attempt to ask Khieu Samphan a direct question. Specifically, Mr. Ny entreated that Mr. Samphan divulge the whereabouts of Mr. Ny’s uncle, an acquaintance of the accused who was allegedly summoned to Phnom Penh by Mr. Samphan during the evacuation of Phnom Penh and never heard from again…

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