Police idle on 004 warrant #KRT

A day after the Khmer Rouge tribunal publicly disclosed that an arrest warrant for suspect Meas Muth had been ignored by authorities, local officials in Muth’s hometown acknowledged that police had visited the area, but made no attempt to take him into custody.

What’s more, they said, the septuagenarian – who is wanted on accusations of extermination, torture and “other inhumane acts” dating from his time as Khmer Rouge navy commander – should be allowed to keep his freedom in spite of the arrest warrant, which was issued last December by international co-investigating judge Mark Harmon.

Em Sarom, police chief of Ta Sanh commune, where Muth lives, said that he had accompanied four policemen who came from Phnom Penh to speak to villagers about Muth’s potential arrest.

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