{"id":19278,"date":"2017-12-12T17:23:26","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T10:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/?p=19278"},"modified":"2017-12-13T10:21:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T03:21:17","slug":"samdech-techo-hun-sen-reaffirms-militarys-role-in-national-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/en\/archives\/19278","title":{"rendered":"EU Pledges \u20ac10 million for Khmer Rouge Trials for 2018-2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

AKP Phnom Penh, December 13, 2017 \u2013The European Union (EU) has pledged a budget of 10 million Euro to support the process of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) or the Khmer Rouge Tribunal for the 2018-2019 period.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The financial assistance was announced by EU Ambassador to Cambodia H.E. George Edgar during a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister and Acting Minister of the Office of the Council of Ministers (OCM) H.E. Bin Chhin in Phnom Penh on Tuesday, Mr. Ek Tha, Deputy Director of the OCM\u2019s Press Department told reporters after the meeting.<\/p>\n

According to the press officer, EU will decide by second quarter of 2018 how much would be allocated for national side and international component of the ECCC.<\/p>\n

Cambodia\u2019s side of the court needs US$5.8 million for 2018. Cambodia already has US$4 million and needs another US$1.8 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are seeking EU to fill up the budget shortfall for Cambodia\u2019s side. We strongly hope that EU will complete the said shortfall,\u201d said Mr. Ek Tha.<\/p>\n

The Tribunal has convicted three leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime and sentenced them to life imprisonment. They have convicted \u201cBrother Number 2\u201d and former chief ideologist Nuon Chea, former head of state Khieu Samphan, and former chief of S-21 Kaing Guek Eav alias Duch.<\/p>\n

Former Khmer Rouge foreign minister Ieng Sary died before he could be convicted, and his wife Ieng Thirith, former minister of social affairs in the regime, was found unfit to stand trial due to dementia. She died in August 2015.<\/p>\n

EU and Cambodian sides are pleased with ECCC\u2019s achievements\u2014since the court\u2019s establishment in 2006\u2014in terms of bringing the justice, allowing victims speak at the tribunal hearings, set up archive of the court\u2019s legacies, as well as reparations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat ECCC has achieved is very valuable,\u201d said Mr. Ek Tha.<\/p>\n

Cambodia and the U.N. continue to seek new donors and contributions from existing friends of the ECCC to support the latter to complete its mission of providing justice to nearly 2 million victims who died under the Democratic Kampuchea regime, known as \u2018the Killing Fields\u2019, which ruled the country from April 17, 1975 to January 6, 1979.<\/p>\n

By AKP<\/p>\n

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