Khmer Rouge Tribunal to announce verdict today

The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia will today announce the verdict for case 002/02 regarding the roles of Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan in the Khmer Rouge regime, ECCC spokesman Neth Pheaktra said yesterday. During the trial of case 002/01 in 2014, both men were found guilty of crimes against humanity committed between April 1975 and December 1977 and were sentenced to life in prison by the tribunal.

Mr Pheaktra said yesterday during a meeting with about 700 government officials, monks, students and NGOs representatives that the tribunal will announce its judgement on case 002/02 today. “This is another historical event for humanity and a new achievement for the ECCC,” he said, noting that hearings for case 002/02 were held from October 2014 to January last year.

“The hearing lasted 283 days, during which 185 individuals testified and 82,780 people attended,” he said. Mr Chea, former deputy secretary of state of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, and Mr Samphan, former head of state of the Democratic Kampuchea, were on trial for their roles during an armed conflict between Democratic Kampuchea and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

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