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Trial Chamber Case 002/02 Against Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan (Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2020

Suhong Yang
Suhong Yang*
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Suhong Yang is an S.J.D. Candidate at Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC. She was a legal intern at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva and the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
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On November 16, 2018, the Trial Chamber of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) rendered the judgment in Case 002/02 against Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan. The full written version of the judgment was notified in Khmer, English, and French on March 28, 2019. The Chamber found Nuon and Khieu guilty of crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and genocide of the Vietnamese ethnic, national, and racial group. The Chamber additionally convicted Nuon of genocide of the Cham ethnic and religious group under the doctrine of superior responsibility. Both Nuon and Khieu were sentenced to life imprisonment.

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International Legal Documents
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International Legal Materials , Volume 59 , Issue 1 , February 2020 , pp. 159 - 179
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Copyright © 2020 by The American Society of International Law

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ENDNOTES

1 Law on the Establishment of Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia for the Prosecution of Crimes Committed During the Period of Democratic Kampuchea with Inclusion of Amendments, NS/RKM/1004/00627 (Oct. 27, 2004) (‘ECCC Law’), Arts. 4, 5, 6, at https://www.eccc.gov.kh/sites/default/files/legal-documents/KR_Law_as_amended_27_Oct_2004_Eng.pdf.

2 Case 002/02, Case File No. 002/19-09-2007/ECCC/TC E465, Judgment, Trial Chamber ECCC (Nov. 16, 2018) (‘Judgment’), ¶¶ 3419, 3420, 3514.

3 Id. ¶ 3345.

4 Agreement Between the United Nations and the Royal Government of Cambodia Concerning the Prosecution Under Cambodian Law of Crimes Committed During the Period of Democratic Kampuchea, June 6, 2003, at https://www.eccc.gov.kh/sites/default/files/legal-documents/Agreement_between_UN_and_RGC.pdf.

5 ECCC Law, supra note 1, Arts. 1,2.

6 Judgment, supra note 2, ¶ 624.

7 Seth Mydans, ‘We Only Killed the Bad People’: 2 Khmer Rouge Leaders, Forever Linked, N.Y. Times (Nov. 6, 2018), at https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/16/world/asia/khmer-rouge-nuon-chea-khieu-samphan-genocide-cambodia.html.

8 Case 002, Case File No. 002/19-09-2007-ECCC-OCIJ D427, Closing Order, ECCC (Sept. 15, 2010) (‘Closing Order’), at https://www.eccc.gov.kh/sites/default/files/documents/courtdoc/D427Eng.pdf.

9 Id.

10 Case 002/01, Case File No. 002/19-09-2007/ECCC/TC E313, Judgment, Trial Chamber ECCC (Aug. 7, 2014), at https://www.eccc.gov.kh/sites/default/files/documents/courtdoc/2014-08-07%2017%3A04/E313_Trial%20Chamber%20Judgement%20Case%20002_01_ENG.pdf.

11 Case 002/01, Case File No. 002/19-09-2007/ECCC/SC F36, Appeal Judgment, Supreme Court Chamber ECCC (Nov. 23, 2016), at https://www.eccc.gov.kh/sites/default/files/documents/courtdoc/%5Bdate-in-tz%5D/F36_EN_0.pdf.

12 Judgment, supra note 2, ¶¶4401, 4402.

13 Helen Regan and Sharif Paget, Khmer Rouge leader Nuon Chea dies at 93, cnn (Aug. 4, 2019), at https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/04/asia/cambodia-nuon-chea-death-intl-hnk/index.html.

14 Judgment, supra note 2, ¶ 794.

15 Id, ¶ 795; The Prosecutor v. Jean-Paul Akayesu, Case No. ICTR-96-4-T, Judgment (Sept. 2, 1998), ¶¶ 511, 516, at https://unictr.irmct.org/sites/unictr.org/files/case-documents/ictr-96-4/trial-judgements/en/980902.pdf.

16 Judgment, supra note 2, ¶¶ 3228, 3988, 3993.

17 Id. ¶¶ 4173–4176, 4326.

18 Id. ¶¶ 561, 4187.

19 Id. ¶ 4194.

20 Id. ¶ 3694.

21 Brima et al, Case No. SCSL-2004-16-A, Appeal Judgment (Feb. 22, 2008), ¶ 200, at http://www.rscsl.org/Documents/Decisions/AFRC/Appeal/675/SCSL-04-16-A-675.pdf.

22 Prosecutor v. Dominic Ongwen, ICC-02/04-01/15, Pre-Trial Chamber Decision on the confirmation of charges against Dominic Ongwen (Mar. 23, 2016), ¶¶ 89-91, at https://www.icc-cpi.int/CourtRecords/CR2016_02331.PDF.

23 Judgment, supra note 2, ¶ 749.

24 Id.

25 Id. ¶¶ 3613, 3688.

26 Id. ¶¶ 3620, 3623, 3625.

27 Id. ¶¶ 3621, 3622, 3624; Closing Order, supra note 8, ¶¶ 1145, 1147.

28 Judgment, supra note 2, ¶ 3535; Rosemary Grey, Gendering the Khmer Rouge period: last Friday's judgment, INTLAWGRRLS (Nov. 19, 2018), at https://ilg2.org/2018/11/19/gendering-the-khmer-rouge-period-last-fridays-judgment/.

29 Case 002/02, Case File No. 002/19-09-2007/ECCC/TC, Summary of Judgment (Nov. 6, 2018), ¶ 63, at https://www.eccc.gov.kh/sites/default/files/documents/courtdoc/%5Bdate-in-tz%5D/20181217%20Summary%20of%20Judgement%20Case%20002-02%20ENG_FINAL%20FOR%20PUBLICATION.pdf.