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| |  | | Ta Mok | | | context : | Cambodia  | | judgement place : | Cambodia | | status : | Died before end of trial | | particulars : | Died on 21 July 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 provided 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 were 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.
The ECCC was given competency to try crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and violations of the Hague Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property
Currently, the Court, is 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) were then to l examine the cases and decide whether and which of the suspects would be tried by the ECCC.
The first trial, by the ECCC, that of Kaing Guek Eav, aka Duch, began on 17 February 2009. | |    | |  |  | | also known as : | | | Chhit Choeun | | | judgement period : | | | 07.09.1999 - 21.07.2006 | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity
Genocide | | | profile last modified : | | | 17.03.2010 |
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