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| |  | | Nuon Chea | | | context : | Cambodia  | | judgement place : | Cambodia | | status : | Investigations underway | | particulars : | Indicted for crimes against humanity and war crimes by the ECCC on 19 September 2007; placed under provisional detention; pre-trial chamber hearing on his appeal against provisional detention opened on 4 February 2008 | | position : | 'Brother Number Two' of the Khmer Rouge regime and former right hand man of Pol Pot |
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| | | | On 19 September 2007, the Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts of Cambodia (see ‘spotlight’) issued an order of provisional detention for Nuon Chea, in which he is charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes. He was arrested the same day by special units of the army and police at his home in the jungle close to the Thai border where he was living since an agreement reached in December 1998 with the Cambodian government. He was brought into the custody of the ECCC
Nuon Chea is accused of having ordered Duch on 5 January 1979, 2 days before the fall of Phnom Penh, to kill all the prisoners still alive in the Centre S-21. But 7 persons survived and should act as key witnesses during the trial.
It is the second person agains whom a judicial investigation was opened by the ECCC, following the one against « Duch » alias Guek Eav Kaing in July 2007. Three other former leaders of the Pol Pot regime are said to be investigated by the Tribunal: ex-president Khieu Samphan, Leng Sary (See ‘related cases’) and Meas Muth, son in law of military Commander Ta Mok (See ‘related cases’), who died last year.
On 19 September 2007, Nuon Chea as presented before the co-examinating judges of the ECCC. His first appearance was held on the same day. He was informed of the charges held against him.
Nuon Chea denies all the charges against him.
The Pre-trial Chamber heraing on Nuon Chea's appeal against provisional detention opened on 4 February 2008. | |     click for more... | | Trial Watch would like to remind its users that any person charged by national or international authorities is presumed innocent until proven guilty. | |  |  | | also known as : | | | Long Bunruot | | | last time seen : | | | Phnom Penh, Cambodia | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity
War crimes | | | profile last modified : | | | 10.07.2008 |
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