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176 柬埔寨发布关于战争犯罪的报告
Cambodia Group Issues Report on War Crimes
Alisha Ryu
Hong Kong
16 Jul 2001 14:00 UTC
In Cambodia, human rights activists are 1)applauding the release of a report they say proves the direct involvement of seven former Khmer Rouge leaders in the mass murder of Cambodians, nearly three 2)decades ago.
The non-profit legal organization - Coalition for International Justice CIJ) - issued the report along with the War Crimes Research Office, a law school division at the American University in Washington, DC.
The CIJ says two U.S. scholars used new 3)archival evidence to determine that seven of the surviving leaders under Khmer Rouge founder Pol Pot were directly involved in decisions that led to the deaths of nearly two million people between 1975 and 1979.
The evidence includes minutes of party meetings, telegrams, reports from the killing fields and prisons, personal notes of Khmer Rouge officials and confessions of executed Khmer Rouge soldiers.
The authors say they clearly show that Pol Pot's deputy and chief 4)ideologue, Nuon Chea, devised and implemented the execution policies while the foreign minister Ieng Sary, and the Khmer Rouge's nominal leader, Khieu Samphan, encouraged and facilitated the 5)executions. The information the authors say refutes the defense that only Pol Pot, who died in 1998, was responsible for the 6)genocide.
The 7)accused men struck a deal with the government of Prime Minister Hun Sen in 1996 and are living freely in Cambodia. Only two men mentioned in the report are in government 8)custody: top military commander Ta Mok; and the director of the Khmer Rouge torture center in Phnom Penh, Kaing Khek lev, better known as "Duch." In Phnom Penh, Youk Chhang is the director of the center that houses most of the documents the authors used. He praises the report. He says the findings should put more pressure on the Cambodian Government to speed up the establishment of a U.N. 9)tribunal to try all of the leaders for war 10)crimes. "This is publicly known and therefore the government has to answer," he says. "I am very confident that they cannot escape this issue because people everywhere want to know what happened."
The Hun Sen government has come under international criticism for its 11)reluctance in setting up a tribunal. Critics say it is because Hun Sen, himself, was a former Khmer Rouge soldier who defected in 1977. But the government insists it is out of concern that a 12)prolonged and bitter trial could 13)upset the political peace in Cambodia.
(1) applaud[E5plC:d]v.拍手喝彩, 称赞, 赞同
(2) decade[5dekeId]n.十年, 十
(3) archival[B:`kaIvEl]adj.关于档案的
(4) ideologue[5aIdIElR^]n.理论家, 思想家,空想家
(5) execution[eksI5kju:F(E)n]n.实行, 完成, 执行, 死刑, 制作
(6) genocide[5dVenEsaId]n.有计划的灭种和屠杀
(7) accuse[E5kju:z]vt.控告, 谴责, 非难
(8) custody[5kQstEdI]n.保官
(9) tribunal[traI5bju:n(E)l]n.法官席, 审判员席, (特等)法庭
(10) crime[kraIm]n.犯罪, 犯罪行为, 罪行, 罪恶
(11) reluctance[rI5lQktEns]n.不愿, 勉强
(12) prolonged[prE5lRNd]adj.延长的, 拖延的
(13) upset[5Qpset]vt.颠覆, 推翻, 扰乱vi.翻倒, 倾覆n.翻倒, 混乱
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