A total of 10 individuals have been charged for committing various crimes against humanity, genocide, and breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 during the Khmer Rouge rule. Ĭhea’s case is one of four cases before the ECCC, two of which have reached completion and two of which are ongoing. The tribunal faces serious obstacles and pushback, in particular from uncooperative government members and Cambodian Prime Minister and former Khmer Rouge official, Hun Sen, who does not require government members to produce evidence. Civil society and others have criticized the ECCC for being long overdue in convictions and for addressing only a fraction of Khmer Rouge’s crimes, resulting in impunity for many other senior Khmer Rouge leaders and current government officials. See ECCC, Key Events ECCC, Introduction to the ECCC. The ECCC has initiated four principal cases, involving 10 defendants, since it began operating in 2006 in that time, it has completed the trials of three defendants, all of whom were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. His death has prompted renewed scrutiny of the search for justice in Cambodia and the role of the ECCC, a United Nations-backed tribunal tasked with prosecuting senior Khmer Rouge leaders and other individuals “most responsible” for the atrocities carried out under the regime, from 1975 to 1979. 2,” of orchestrating the forced removal of approximately two million people and directing the torture and killing of more than 14,000 people at a Cambodian detention center.
In 2014, the ECCC convicted Chea, also known as “Brother No. Nuon Chea, a former high-ranking official in the Khmer Rouge, died on Augwhile serving a life sentence imposed by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia ( ECCC).
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