Governor-General Dame Silvia Cartwright

As Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen says he can't wait for the tribunal hearing cases against Pol Pot's henchmen to fold, New Zealander Dame Silvia Cartwright says political interference in any court proceeding is deplorable. Justice Cartwright is one of five judges sitting on the Khmer Rouge Tribunal which Hun Sen verbally lashed last Tuesday -- the day after the UN-backed international-Cambodian court started hearing its first case. It took 30 years to have the trials, and only five high-ranked cadres of the extreme communist regime are being charged, starting with Kaing Guek Eav, or Duch, who ran Tuol Sleng torture centre and prison. ... Read Full Story

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