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| |  | | Khieu Samphan | | | context : | Cambodia  | | judgement place : | Cambodia | | status : | Investigations underway | | particulars : | Charged by the ECCC for war crimes, crimes against humanity ; arrested on 19 November 2007 and placed in provisional detention | | position : | Former president of Democratic Kampuchea |
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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 setting up of Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), integrated into the existing judicial system, and in which International judges would also preside.
On 4 October 2004, the Cambodian Nation Assembly ratified this treaty. On 27 October, the treaty was proclaimed into law by the King.
In October 2006, the court, now consisting of 17 Cambodian and 10 foreign judges and prosecutors, informed that it is aiming to have its work concluded within three years, due to budgetary constraints.
On 18 July 2007, the Co-prosecutors of the ECCC announced that they had transferred the files of five suspects, to the ECCC. The 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 trials are set to begin in 2008. | |    | |  |  | | nationality : | | | Cambodia | | | date of birth : | | | 27.07.1931 | | | last time seen : | | | Phnom Penh, Cambodia | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity
War crimes | | | profile last modified : | | | 10.07.2008 |
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