Should The Arguments Against The Khmer Rouge Trial

After exerting over a decade and $300 million dollars, the United Nations chose to proceed with a tribunal that would prosecute the accomplices of the Khmer Rouge. The Khmer Rouge is responsible for the deaths of at least 1.7 million Cambodians. This is possibly one of the most horrific mass killings that this past century has witnessed and, since the trail has begun, the Court has only successfully prosecuted three men. The trial’s extremely slow pace and its susceptibility to political interference are the reason for a very awkward compromise that was reached by Cambodia and the United Nations as they agreed to set up a combined international court, which formally began in 2006. The crimes that were being prosecuted by the ECCC’S included genocide crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the 1949 Geneva Convention, and religious persecution as defined by the Cambodian Penal Code of 1956. Of the Three people Convicted felons all three of them are sentenced to life in prison. They are sentenced Life in prison as the maximum punishment, because Cambodian Law prohibits the act of the death penalty. The ECCC is the first ever to allow victims to participate directly as civil parties. Civil parties are represented by lawyers who speak for

Politics should never get in the way of doing the right thing., but unfortunately, in this case, they did. I am extremely surprised by the amount of steps that the defendants have to go through, especially the they decide to repeal an act. Even though its evident that the defendants convicted horrible war crimes, this huge process is almost necessary because this process offers deep analyzation of the case. Which ultimately gives the victims of the Khmer Rouge a piece of mind that they will pay for the dreadful actions that they’ve