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The UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal has failed to satisfy the needs of the regime’s victims, a civil party lawyer at the court said Tuesday. Speaking on a special edition of “Hello VOA,” Som Sokong, who is representing complainants in cases 002 and 003, said victims have not had enough time or information to properly file applications and complaints. The court has so far failed to adequately provide the names of crime sites that would allow victims to detail their complaints the tribunal victims unit, a major requirement for the inclusion at the court, he said.

Despite recent public concern over whether the UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal will fulfill its mandate, an official within the court’s Victims Support Unit says he is confident that trials of regime leaders will help bring about some national reconciliation. Im Sophea, who coordinates the unit’s public outreach, told “Hello VOA” Thursday the court would record the stories of victims for the historical record and would provide “acceptable justice” to the millions of Cambodians traumatized by the regime. However, he said, the court also needs participation by other partners across society to help the healing, including psychological counseling, and some kind of compensation for victims.

A US-based organization for survivors of the Khmer Rouge condemned the UN-backed war crimes tribunal on Thursday for preventing overseas Cambodians from taking part in the court’s controversial third case. Tribunal observers fear the court is trying to dismiss those cases in the face of stringent government opposition. The U.S.-based survivors group ASRIC says the war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh will fail to deliver justice if it ditches its third and fourth cases that are opposed by the Cambodian government.

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Four leaders of the Khmer Rouge, which ruled Cambodia in the late 1970s, will face trial next year accused of genocide, torture and religious persecution. But many of those affected by the country’s brutal past still cannot speak about what happened. The psychologist had agreed to be interviewed before I arrived in Phnom Penh. But [...]

ANLONG VENG, CAMBODIA — In a dimly lighted concrete classroom with smudged and peeling walls, the principal of Anlong Veng High School recalled the man who had built it, the late Khmer Rouge leader Ta Mok. “Everyone here loves Ta Mok. He was a good leader, and he cared about his people,” said Sreng Kor [...]

On an unseasonably cool evening last month, nearly 700 people filed into the Chenla Theater for the final night of the inaugural Cambodia International Film Festival. The four-day event had drawn sizable audiences to films from more than 30 countries, but it was the premiere on this night of a Cambodian film called “Lost Loves” [...]

PHNOM PENH — When the destroyer USS Mustin docks in Cambodia next week it will be more than just a routine mission for the ship’s commander. Michael Misiewicz is Cambodian by birth and was just a child when he was wrenched from his family and homeland 37 years ago, to be sent away from the [...]

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Defence lawyers for a former Khmer Rouge prison chief have formally appealed his conviction for war crimes and other offenses that landed him a 19-year jail sentence. Kang Ritheary, a Cambodian lawyer representing Kaing Guek Eav — also known as Duch — said Monday his team has filed the appeal with [...]

Forced marriage under the Khmer Rouge was physically and mentally harmful to both men and women alike, a legal expert said Monday. “Both of them were victims, not just women,” said Duong Savorn, a project coordinator for the Cambodia Defenders Project, as a guest on “Hello VOA.” “The organization forced them to marry those whom [...]