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From: Andi Wolos & Bob Necci

(POW-MIA InterNetwork)

Re: Cambodian Triabunal

Date: March 26, 1999

With the possibility of a trial of Khmer Rouges Army Chief, Ta Mok, on the horizon, a researcher has come forward with documentation of the commander's participation in mass murder.

Over 600 pages of documents have been prepared. They were secreted in Takeo, a small prison inth southwest where over 1,000 priosners were murdered. Included in the documents are confessions signed by Khmer Rouges personnel that detail the final years of the Killing Fields era which left Cambodia and barren and bloodied wasteland with over 2 million dead.

Although the UN has called for an international tribunal to act as the court during a trail, PM Hun Sen has rejecetd the notion out-of-hand. Foreign judges and prosecutors will be banned from the Cambodian Phnom Penh Military Court proceedings, but foreign lawyers may play a very limited role if they agree to work alongside Cambodian attorneys.

China, a key member of the UN Security Council, soundly rejected an international tribunal, effectively making anything but a Cambodian trial impossible.