Pact: Part III

Yet another report suggesting U.S. may help meet the shortfall in funding for the three-year trial provided it can dictate the standards applied for the Extraordinary Chamber.

The U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues, Pierre-Richard Prosper, came to the Cambodian capital this week to discuss with government officials the conditions for U.S. involvement in a trial of former leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime.
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Mr. Prosper says the United States has no deadline to decide on whether to support the trial, as it waits for Cambodia to present its selection of judges.

It would appear that the condition of having U.S. citizens and troops exempt is not enough to satisfy the policy-makers in America. They also insist "the Cambodian government and the United Nations to uphold international standards in selecting judges for a tribunal".

As an observer, it is difficult to determine the exact meaning of "international standards" at this stage. However the U.S. insist that support would be forthcoming "only if it [the tribunal] is fair and free of corruption and political manipulation" in its appointment of independent Cambodian judges.

It is interesting to see that other nations have already given freely to funding this tribunal without first stipulating a series of conditions as to how it is to be run.

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