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| |  | | Kaing Guek Eav | | | context : | Cambodia  | | judgement place : | Cambodia | | status : | On trial | | particulars : | Detained by Cambodian authorities since 1999; Charged with crimes against humanity and provisionally detained by the Extraordinary Chambers (ECCC) on 31 July 2007; trial began on 30 March 2009; Duch formally accepted responsibility and apologized for the crimes on 31 March 2009 | | position : | Director of the S21/Tuol Sleng detention and torture center |
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| | | | On 13 May 2003, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution approving a proposed agreement reached between the UN and Cambodia concerning the prosecution of those holding major responsibility for the crimes committed between 1975 and 1979 (A/RES/57/228/B). The agreement provides for the creation of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), integrated into the existing Cambodian judicial system, and among which International judges are also appointed.
On 4 October 2004, the Cambodian National Assembly ratified this treaty. On 27 October 2004, the treaty was proclaimed into law by the King.
By October 2006, the Court, was composed of 12 Cambodian and 9 foreign judges and prosecutors.
On 18 July 2007, the Co-prosecutors of the ECCC announced that they had transferred the files of five suspects, to the ECCC. The Co-investigating judges (a foreign and a Cambodian judge) will examine the cases and decide whether and which of the suspects will be tried by the ECCC.
The first trial, in the case of Kaing Guek Eav, aka Duch, began on 17 February 2009. | |    | |  |  | | also known as : | | | Duch | | | last time seen : | | | Phnom Penh (Cambodia) | | | judgement period : | | | 30.03.2009 | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity
Torture | | | profile last modified : | | | 08.12.2009 |
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