Ex-Khmer Rouge leader seeks overturning of Cambodia genocide conviction

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PHNOM PENH, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Lawyers for a former leader of Cambodia's notorious Khmer Rouge regime asked a U.N.-backed court on Monday to overturn a 2018 verdict against him in a genocide trial, arguing it had insufficient reason to conclude he was guilty.

 

The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), sentenced former Khmer Rouge-era President Khieu Samphan, 90, to life in prison for genocide against the Cham Muslim minority and Vietnamese people and for crimes against humanity. Most of the estimated 1.7 victims of the 1975-79 ultra-Maoist regime died of starvation, torture, exhaustion or disease in labour camps, or were bludgeoned to death during mass executions.

 

Guilty verdicts have so far been reached against three former top members of the regime, but several have died while on trial or before indictments were made. Khieu Samphan's defence team argued that the trial chamber in its verdict had failed to provide sufficient reasoning and violated its own legal framework.

 

read more https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/ex-khmer-rouge-leader-seeks-overturning-cambodia-genocide-conviction-2021-08-16/

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Let the lawyers pay to whole thing.