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| |  | | Ta Mok | | | context : | Cambodia  | | judgement place : | Cambodia | | status : | Died before end of trial | | particulars : | Died on July 21, 2006 while awaiting trial before the Extraordinary Chambers for the crimes committed by Khmer rouge in Cambodia | | position : | Member of the Central Committee of the Cambodian Communist Party |
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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 proceedings are scheduled to begin in 2008. | |    | |  |  | | also known as : | | | Chhit Choeun | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity
Genocide | | | profile last modified : | | | 15.02.2008 |
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