Hearings Continue Focus on Telegram Communication

  • by Edward Gough, Associate Consultant, Destination Justice
  • — 14 Dec, 2012

After the emotionally charged nature of Thursday’s proceedings created by both witnesses and Counsel alike, the hearings at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Friday, December 14, 2012, returned to a more leveled examination of communication and authority structures under the Khmer Rouge regime.

The morning session saw the resumption of the questioning of Mr. Phan Van, with defense lawyers probing the witness about discrepancies in his age and the nature of his working relationship with his father, the secretary of the sector in which Mr. Van worked during the Democratic Kampuchea (DK) period…

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