June 2012 – Issue International Bar Association
Professor Stuart Ford, a former ECCC assistant prosecutor, comments on Khmer Rouge trial proceedings.
“The breakdown in the investigations into Case Files 003 and 004 indicates that the process has failed in an important way,” he says.
“In hindsight, it was naïve to expect that judges that are subject to political control in the national judiciary, who were handpicked by the national government… would not be subject to political interference while at the ECCC.”
Read more: Bringing the Khmer Rouge to Justice
