Following the International Co-Prosecutor’s request that an investigation into seven additional s... more Following the International Co-Prosecutor’s request that an investigation into seven additional suspects be opened before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (‘ECCC’),1 the Cambodian Government declared these efforts to be destabilizing, likely to incite civil war and therefore “not ... allowed”.2 In reality, the Khmer Rouge – deposed in early 1979 by Vietnamese forces, although retaining control over portions of the country and engaged in on-going fighting until the 1990s – was politically and militarily a spent force by the time of the ECCC’s creation.3 In the specific Cambodian context, this rhetoric does little beyond demonstrating the depth of official Cambodian opposition to the expansion
Following the International Co-Prosecutor’s request that an investigation into seven additional s... more Following the International Co-Prosecutor’s request that an investigation into seven additional suspects be opened before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (‘ECCC’),1 the Cambodian Government declared these efforts to be destabilizing, likely to incite civil war and therefore “not ... allowed”.2 In reality, the Khmer Rouge – deposed in early 1979 by Vietnamese forces, although retaining control over portions of the country and engaged in on-going fighting until the 1990s – was politically and militarily a spent force by the time of the ECCC’s creation.3 In the specific Cambodian context, this rhetoric does little beyond demonstrating the depth of official Cambodian opposition to the expansion
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