The United Nations on Friday deplored Cambodia's decision to reject the choice of a new judge from Switzerland to a court trying former Khmer Rouge leaders, and called on the government to appoint him immediately. The decision by Cambodia's Supreme Council of the Magistracy not to appoint Laurent Kasper-Ansermet as a joint investigating judge was...
If you'd been born to farmer parents in Battambang province, in the country of Cambodia, and been given the name Vann Nath (pronounced van NAT), you would have spent four years as a young man in a pagoda, carefully etching calligraphy on a palm leaf, and through that task, learned the Buddhist concepts that were meant to guide your life: a belief...
The highest chamber of a United Nations-backed tribunal found on Tuesday that a former Khmer Rouge official remains mentally incompetent to stand trial but ordered her continued detention to see if her mental condition improves in six months. The ruling reversed a finding by junior judges that would have freed the defendant, Ieng Thirith, 80,...