The Court Report

February 2009

The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Moving Forward Through Justice In this issue The ECCC has been recently busy with the Initial Hearing of Duch, which was held 17 and 18 February and attracted a great deal of international and national News and Notes 2 media coverage.

3 Judicial Updates The Judicial Updates section has reports of the recent activities of the Pre-Trial Public Information & Chamber, Office of Co-Investigating Judges, Defence Support Section, Office of 8 Outreach Co-Prosecutors and Victims Unit.

10 Court Calendar In the Public Information & Outreach page we publish the ECCC Outreach 11 NGO Page Officer Chin Hemvichet’s report of a weeklong outreach trip to Pursat Province and an article on a conference dealing with survivors. Outreach Calendar 12

In the NGO page, featured are two important partner NGOs, Open Forum of 13 Find Out More Cambodia and YRDP. News & Notes

Robert Petit receives Over 200 journalists New ECCC Reserve Judge international humanitarian attended the Duch appointed award hearing

On 17 and 18 February the Trial Ms. Florence Mumba, a Zambian Chamber held the Initial Hearing for National, was sworn as International Kaing Guek Eav (Duch). The beginning Reserve Judge of the Pre-Trial of the trial attracted great attention Chamber of the ECCC. both internationally and nationally. Born in 1948, Ms. Mumba was the Vice- Approximately 240 journalists around President of the ICTY between the world attended the hearing. November 1999 and November 2001. Before joining the ECCC she worked for In addition to media, NGOs, the the International Criminal Tribunal for diplomatic community and the public ECCC international Co-Prosecutor Rwanda as a member of the Appeals have also showed a great deal of Robert Petit is this year’s recipient of Chamber. the Cox Center International interest in the trial. The seats for the Humanitarian Awar for Advancing hearing were fully booked several days His Majesty Norodom Sihamoni, King of Global Justice. in advance. In total, there are 494 Cambodia, appointed Ms. Mumba on 31 seats in the public gallery of the January by Royal Decree. ”I have to say I am a bit uncomfortable Courtroom. with this. Obviously I am honored if only because the previous recipients have included the President of the ICC Philip Kirsch and the UN Legal Adviser Hans Correll”, he comments.

”But precisely because of this, I can not help but think that there are more deserving people around. Nonetheless I will try to live up to this the best I can.”

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for the activities resulting from their Pre-Trial Chamber promulgation.

More field missions are planned for this The Pre-Trial Chamber remained seised February than in any other month so of seven outstanding appeals, ranging far. Meanwhile the legal team and from translation rights to provisional investigators are analysing and filtering detention. It also remained seised of a information from the field and cross- disagreement between the Co- referencing it with other primary source Prosecutors. Directions and rulings evidence in our possession. for the Pre-Trial, Trial and Supreme have been made in respect of the Court Chambers, commenced her The OCIJ has also immediately procedural issues leading up to the functions on 19 January 2009. The new responded and implemented improved hearing and/or consideration of these Legal Officer for the Pre-Trial Chamber access to the case file following matters. is expected to report for duty in mid- requests from both civil parties and the On 29 January 2009, the Pre-Trial February. The Pre-Trial Chamber has Charged Persons and their legal Chamber scheduled hearings in relation also been assigned an additional Legal representatives. These decisions can to two pending appeals against Orders Officer on a consultancy basis, who will be seen on the ECCC website. on Extension of Provisional Detention, be temporarily assigned to the Decisions on other requests for in relation to Charged Persons Ieng Chamber to assist in its heavier-than- investigative acts are being constructed Thirith and . These hearings expected workload. or carried out in accordance with the are scheduled for 24 February 2009 Internal Rules of Procedure and the and 26 February 2009, respectively. OCIJ work calendar. Office of the Co- Decisions in both appeals will follow Investigating Judges The four Charged Persons are having shortly thereafter. their tri-annual hearings on the On 6 February 2009, the Chamber The OCIJ’s investigation into the conditions of their detention in scheduled one further hearing in alleged crimes of the Communist Party accordance with Internal Rule 63(8). relation to two related appeals lodged of Kampuchea and the responsibility of These hearings allow the Charged by Charged Person : , Ieng Sary, , Persons to report any concerns the appeal against the Order on Khieu Samphan, and Duch is ongoing. regarding their pre-trial detention to Extension of Provisional Detention and the Co-Investigating Judges. This month, the OCIJ has placed more the appeal against the Order Refusing than 150 witness interviews on the There are currently 29 civil parties in Request for Release. This hearing is case file. These interviews span the Case File 2 while numerous other scheduled for 27 February 2009. country and relate to nearly all of the reviewed applicants are pending. The Decisions in these appeals are also crime sites outlined by the Office of the OCIJ, in conjunction with the Victims expected to follow shortly after the Co-Prosecutor in its Introductory Unit, is also in the process of reviewing hearing. Submission. These interviews also all civil party applications. The new Senior Judicial Coordinator, describe general CPK policy, how it was who serves as the overall coordinator disseminated, and who was responsible

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Finally, the analysis unit of the OCIJ case; and at OSJI where he drafted a met with the Victims Unit and report on challenges for the defence at

reconfigured its analytical software. the ECCC. Prior to his international The new software is compatible with work, Richard practised as a defence OCIJ programs and enables civil party lawyer in London and as an attorney in applications to be processed by the California. He is currently a non Victims Unit while at the same time executive Director of International making the information available to the Criminal Law Services Foundation. judicial investigation.

Defence Support Section Defence Teams Update

New Head of the Defence Support Section

Following the resignation of Dr Say Richard Rogers was officially appointed Bory for health reasons in July 2008, Dr Head of the Defence Support Section Sa Sovan was appointed Co-Lawyer of (DSS) this month. After the departure Mr Khieu Samphan. Dr Sa has been a of Rupert Skilbeck as Head of the DSS member of the Bar Association of the in July 2008, Richard Rogers, who had Kingdom of Cambodia since 2001, and been Deputy Head of DSS for the past is also a member of the Bar Council. He two years, was the officer in charge of received his doctorate from Paris II the DSS. Richard has worked in the University of Laws in 1972. Prior to field of international criminal law since joining the Cambodian Bar he held a 1998. Initially he served for four years number of positions, including as senior in the Trial and Appeals Chambers of legal adviser of the Cambodian National the ICTR and ICTY. He then moved to Assembly, professor of Civil Law and as Kosovo as Chief of the OSCE's Legal an expert within the Ministry of Justice. System Monitoring Section, where he He has been involved in legal education monitored the UN administered war for many years, and has published crimes trials. Before joining the ECCC, widely in both French and Khmer on he worked as a consultant at the legal issues including criminal Center for Social Development on the procedure, international law and Court Watch Project; at the State Court commercial law. of Bosnia and Herzegovina (in OKO) advising defence lawyers in a genocide

4 The Court Report: Issue 10 While the Duch Defence Team is with the Institute of Human Rights of appeals against extension of their actively preparing for trial, all Defence the Montpellier Bar, organised a mock respective periods of provisional Teams continue to participate in the trial in the ECCC courtroom, and invited detention. In addition, on 22 January, judicial investigation of Case File 002. Cambodian law students to attend. This the OCP filed its response to Khieu The DSS has been providing full legal provided an opportunity to observe a Samphan’s appeal against the refusal and administrative support to defence typical French criminal trial and to gain of his release by the Co-Investigating lawyers. a better understanding of the role of Judges. each party in the proceedings. Legacy: Outreach and Capacity Trial Preparation: Building The OCP accelerated its trial Over the past few months, the DSS has preparation in Case File No. 001 that held seminars in various Cambodian Office of the Co-Prosecutors deals with the Khmer Rouge’s S-21 universities, including the Cambodian Security Centre in Phnom Penh. The University for Specialties, the Royal Legal Work: OCP complied with the directions University of Law and Economics, the issued to it during the Trial Paññâsâstra University of Cambodia, In January 2009, the OCP continued its Management Meeting of 15–16 January the Norton University, and the Build participation in the judicial investigation 2009 and is now preparing for the Bright University. and the appellate proceedings in Case Initial Hearing scheduled for 17 File No. 002 in which charged persons The purpose of these seminars is to February. It is also preparing to Duch, Khieu Samphan, Ieng Sary, Ieng explain the importance of fair trial and respond to the preliminary challenges Thirith and Nuon Chea are being the role of the defence to law students. raised by the accused Duch. investigated. In particular, on 9 Each session gathered between 100 January, it filed its responses before and 200 students. Analysis: the Pre-Trial Chamber to Ieng Sary, Last December, the DSS, in conjunction Ieng Thirith and Khieu Samphan’s Amongst many other activities, the OCP maintained and updated its case management database (CaseMap), prepared witness summaries of potential witnesses, analysed open source and in-house documents, updated chronologies of the accused, prepared audio-visual case presentation aids and continued its microfilm digitisation project.

It continued to analyse the Case File and prepared Trial Readiness Assessment Reports (TRAR) to assess the requirements of making further investigative requests to the Co- Investigating Judges.

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Prosecutorial Disagreement: Victims Unit

The Co-Prosecutors now await the determination of the Pre-Trial Chamber The last month at the Victims Unit has in respect of the disagreement been marked by the deadline for the proceedings. The pleadings in these submission of Civil Party applications in proceedings are complete. While the Case File No. 001. The Trial Chamber International Co-Prosecutor filed his has announced that the Initial Hearing Statement of Disagreement on 1 in Case 1 would be on 17 February December 2008, the National Co- 2009. According to Rule 23(4) of the Prosecutor filed her Response on 29 Internal Rules, victims who wish to December 2008. participate as Civil Parties in the proceedings had to submit their Civil Notwithstanding the disagreement, the Party applications ten working days Co-Prosecutors have been and shall before the Initial Hearing. Thus the continue to work together, in all their time limit for the submission of Civil cases, to ensure that justice is Party applications in Case 1 expired on rendered to the victims of the Khmer 2 February 2009. Rouge. Informing about the deadline Up to 2 February 2009, the Victims Unit External Activities: has received a total of 94 Civil Party Consequently, the Victims Unit, in applications related to Case File No. On 29 January, Co-Prosecutor joined collaboration with the Public Affairs 001. Of these, 28 Civil Party other principal international prosecutors Section, focused on informing victims applications had already been admitted to speak at the Atrocity Crimes about the time limit in order to ensure and transferred to the Trial Chamber Litigation Year-in-Review Conference at that everybody who wished to submit a by the Office of the Co-Investigating the Northwestern University School of Civil Party application in Case File No. Judges. 66 Civil Party applications have Law, Chicago. 001 did so before the deadline. The been received between the issuance of Victims Unit published a press the closing order and 2 February 2009. On 31 January, Co-Prosecutor Robert statement on the ECCC website In addition, the Victims Unit received Petit received the Cox Center announcing the expiry of the deadline. new complaints related to Case 1 which International Humanitarian Award for It printed an updated flyer which was brings the total of complaints in Case 1 Advancing Global Justice at the Case distributed with the assistance of the to 28. As there is no deadline for the Western School of Law, Cleveland. Public Affairs Section to the Tuol Sleng submission of complaints (as opposed On 30 January, Senior Assistant Genocide Museum as well as the to Civil Part applications), the Victims Prosecutor Anees Ahmed addressed Choeung Ek memorial site and, with Unit will continue to process the graduate students of the New York the help of the Cambodian Human complaints filed by victims and to University and National University of Rights Action Committee (CHRAC), to submit them to the Office of the Co- Singapore (NUS) at the NUS Campus, other parts of the city. On the request Prosecutors. Singapore. of the Victims Unit, information about the deadline was also broadcast by Welcoming new staff Radio FM 102. Furthermore, the The Victims Unit is still recruiting staff Victims Unit opened its offices at the members and would like to welcome Information Center for the two and introduce the new colleagues who weekends preceding the deadline in have recently joined the ECCC. Three order to offer its assistance to victims Outreach Facilitators have started wishing to submit their applications.

6 The Court Report: Issue 10 working for the Victims Unit. Leoung Build Bright University in Phnom Penh Sreang Sreng obtained his bachelor of Sophal studied at the Royal University with a bachelor degree in Education. law degree at the Royal University of of Law and Economics in Phnom Penh He worked at the World Vision Law and Economics in Phnom Penh and graduating in Public Administration. He Cambodia as a school feeding facilitator at the Lumière (Lyon 2) University in also studied Education at the Institute and later became a sponsored Phnom Penh. Before joining the Victims of Foreign Languages. Sophal worked volunteer checking child data validation Unit, he worked for five months as a part-time as an English teacher at the forms. Eae Yeng Ty has a bachelor legal officer at the Trade Union. American Intercon Institute and full degree in Information Technology from These new colleagues will help the time as a legal researcher at the the Norton University in Phnom Penh. Victims Unit to comply with its Brothers Investment Group real-estate He worked at the Khmer Asian comprehensive mandate. The Victims company. Heng Kim Huch graduated in Friendship Society NGO as an Unit will be able to accelerate the management at the National University administrative assistant and then as an processing of complaints as well as Civil of Management in Phnom Penh. She external monitoring consultant at the Party applications and to extend its worked as a project secretary at Japan International Corporation Agency outreach activities in order to inform Victims about their rights.

Information on the Web

http://www.krtrial.org

Several new staff members joined the Victims Unit last month.

Phnom Penh International airport. In (JICA). He also was an administrative addition, Kim Huch was a Young assistant at the Pisnoka International http://www.cambodiatribunal.org Partner in the development team of the Corporation. So Vannak graduated Khmer Youth Association. The program from the Royal University of Law and she was involved in led her to work for Economics in Economics. He also three months in Sweden. Huy obtained in 2007 an MBA in financial Samphors graduated from the faculty development. Before joining the of archeology at the Royal University of Victims Unit, he worked as an aid Fine Arts. She also has a degree in coordinator in the Council for English from the Foreign Languages Development of Cambodia (CDC). Sour institute of the Royal University of Sotheavy graduated at the Royal Phnom Penh. Samphors then worked University of Law and Economics in as a team assistant in the International Law and also at the Royal University of Finance Corporation. Phnom Penh in English. She was an administrator in Pidana Co. Ltd. She Moreover, five new also volunteered at the Documentation Complaints/Applications Data Entry Centre of Cambodia (DC-Cam). She Clerks have joined the Victims Unit. worked as a legal assistant in a notary Chea Sopheak graduated from the office and is a former English teacher.

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Outreach materials for distribution at During the Pursat outreach mission, This year’s outreach program began in Pursat province each destination will include booklets, two civil party applications were posters, caps, t-shirts and victim received and forwarded to the Victims ECCC Public Affairs Section and the information flyers. During the trip to Unit. Local people and authorities Victims Unit operate an outreach Pursat province, 3,000 Khmer booklets, expressed their wish to join the ECCC program to disseminate information on 750 small posters, 300 big posters, 100 proceedings. Although sometimes they the ECCC mandate, the development of caps and 80 t-shirts were distributed in are concerned about their capability of the ECCC, and especially the victim various places and to people from all filling up the information form and participation at the tribunal, to the walks of life. sending it to the Victims Unit, these general public. The aim is to inform matters were explained carefully. people to be involved in this historic event and to be able to educate their children on the benefits from the court. Victims of the Khmer Rouge regime are encouraged to join the ECCC proceedings as well.

Public Affairs Section has made plans for the whole year 2009 and will monthly visit different provinces. Public Affairs also coordinates participation of senior staff, judicial officers and judges in public forums organized by NGOs. Outreach in Pursat province.

ECCC media monitoring Khmer, English and French. The Radio highest count was 58 articles published The Public Affairs Section of the ECCC From May to December 2007, a mid-November (12-18 Nov), mainly has been carefully following Cambodian weekly average of 22.3 radio reporting on the arrest of Ieng Sary press coverage of the ECCC since its programs were aired on issues related and Ieng Tirith. beginning. Reviewing press articles and to the ECCC. radio programs related to the ECCC This average has gone up to 27.3 From January to June 2008, an weekly, we were able to compile articles per week in 2008. The average of 19.6 radio programs following information on the last two highest count was 48 articles published per week related to the ECCC. With years. beginning of February (4-10 Feb) and numerous radio programs reporting on November (1-7 Nov). The articles Print media the meeting of ECCC judges and former beginning of November focused mainly Khmer Rouge cadres in Pailin in In 2007, a weekly average of 21.9 on the complaints received by the January 2008 (14-20 Jan), 38 radio articles relating to the ECCC was ECCC concerning gender-based programs reported on issues related to published in the Cambodian Press – i.e. violence under the Khmer Rouge the ECCC that week. in Cambodian newspapers publishing in regime.

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Redefining relationships signof anunquestionable Khmer The paradox of the survivor between dead and living Rouge intention of genocide: With this, the survivors seem to find after the Khmer Rouge destroying the separation between life themselves in a situation with no and death, taking humans out of their solution. Permanently invaded by their conditions as humans, killing and death On February 2, a conference on dead, they are not able to live, feeling becomes the production of the “Testimonies of Cambodian refugees dead and living in the same world as extreme. When and where executions and the Khmer Rouge intention of the dead, thereby fulfilling the intention were to be carried out was not told, genocide” was held at the Bophana of the Khmer Rouge. people were taken away “to study” or Center in Phnom Penh. In the “to help soldiers”, without leaving any But if they forget their dead loved conference, French psychiatrist and trace. The living were no longer living ones, if they abandon them in trying to anthropologist Richard Rechtman, who but merely awaiting death, remaining live, the Khmers Rouges would then has been working among Cambodian in the same space as the dead. succeed in killing their dead loved ones refugees in France, was speaking about as if they never had existed and in the Khmer Rouge regime and its dehumanizing the survivors. survivors.

A pathway towards healing? According to Rechtman, human beings are defined through the process of Redefining the relationship between funeral rites, which separate the living the dead and the living therefore from their dead loved ones by appears central to Rechtman. This is a honouring them – not as corpses but ‘revolutionary approach’ he identified in as living who are no more. However, the work of the Bophana Center, what struck him in his experience as namely in Rithy Panh’s movie “S-21, psychiatrist for Cambodian refugees is Since 1986, Richard Rechtman has been working as a psychiatrist with the Khmer Rouge killing machine”: that their universe of life is some of the more than 40.000 survivors are no longer of societal permanently invaded by their dead. Cambodian refugees living in interest as sole witnesses able to The dead were not remembered as France. As an anthropologist, he embraced the refugees’ testimonies narrate death and past atrocities, but departed loved ones – remembered as traces for a reconstruction of can be asked to discuss the living – from when they were alive – but were history, and most of all, of how their loved ones before they died – people – victims and perpetrators – only thought of as dead. They think of history. leaving the narrative of death to the physically and psychologically invaded executioners. the everyday life of survivors. Visiting Cambodia for the very first time this month, Richard Rechtman – as well medical director of the Finally, to Rechtman, such approach For Rechtman, this overwhelming Institut Marcel Rivière, researcher allows and gives a specific meaning to presence of the dead could not only be at the IRIS (Interdisciplinary tribunals as answer to mass atrocities, explained through the very strong Research Institute on Social Issues in Paris) and editor-in-chief of the while allowing other media such as art relation between the departed loved French magazine L’Evolution and history to play their own role. ones and the living within Cambodian Psychiatrique – presented his society, where being remembered as experience at the Bophana Center to a large audience of Cambodians and dead for instance exists through the internationals. belief in ghosts. Rather, it is for him the

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Recent Decisions

29 January 2009: Decision on Co-Prosecutors’ Re- 6 February 2009: Decision on Co-Prosecutors’ Request quest to Determine the Appeal on the Basis of Written to Determine the Appeal on the Basis of Written Submis- Submissions and Scheduling Order [Ieng Thirith’s Ap- sions and Scheduling Order [Khieu Samphan’s Appeal peal against Extension of Provisional Detention] against Extension of Provisional Detention]

29 January 2009: Decision on Co-Prosecutors’ Re- quest to Determine the Appeal on the Basis of Written Submissions and Scheduling Order [Ieng Sary’s Appeal (Note: Published decisions are available for against Extension of Provisional Detention] download on the ECCC Website under Court Docu- ments at: www.eccc.gov.kh) 4 February 2009: Decision on the Co-Prosecutors’ Request to File a Document as an Annex to their Ap- peal Response [Nuon Chea’s Appeal against Extension of Provisional Detention]

Scheduled Court Activities

20 February 2009: Public Hearing for delivery of 26 February 2009: Public hearing for Ieng Sary’s Appeal Pre-Trial Chamber’s decision of Khieu Samphan’s against the Order on Extension of Provisional Detention Appealagainst the Order on Translation Rights and Obligations of the Parties 27 February 2009: Public hearing for Khieu Samphan’s Appeals against 1) the Order on Extension of Provisional 24 February 2009: Public hearing for Ieng Thirith’s Detention and 2) the Order Refusing Request for Release Appeal against the Order on Extension of Provisional Detention

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regime like mental health problems, and national unity and must pay Khmer Rouge Trial Portal / traumas, and serious mental health respect to the sovereignty of the Open Forum of Cambodia symptoms still influence every country. Cambodian. Hence, justice is the This workshop aims to share effective medicine to cure those information about the process of the victims. Khmer Rouge regime to determine the Justice insisted by Cambodians and areas in which the civil society supported by the international organizations can participate to community and the establishment of disseminate information concerning the the Extraordinary Chambers in the process of the Khmer Rouge regime Bitter tragedies and bloody wars which Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) for the and to provide a number of good Cambodians experienced in the period prosecution of the former Khmer Rouge strategies in finding information related of 3 years, 8 months, and 20 days leaders and the people most to the process of the Khmer Rouge during the Democratic Kampuchea responsible for the crimes committed trial. Regime, commonly known as the during the Khmer Rouge regime will Workshop on “Sharing Information Khmer Rouge regime, from 1975 to contribute to the success of finding the about the Process of the Khmer 1979, killed nearly 2 million truth and justice for victims and Rouge Trial” Cambodians and destroyed all kinds of prevent this kind of regime from 23 February 2009 the country’s infrastructure. The happening again. However, we must The Svay Teab District Office, Svay sufferings from the Khmer Rouge also consider security, political stability, Rieng Province, Cambodia

film. Then the participants will discuss to share what participants have learnt Youth Resource the film in order to share their concerns from this experience and what are their Development Program about the Pol Pot Regime and to learn concerns about this process. about the survivors of the Khmer 28 February 2009: YRDP will Rouge and how the Khmer Rouge will organize a study tour to Tuol Sleng and be held to account? Cheung Ek killing fields for 50 students.

17 February 2009: YRDP invites 50 The aims of this event are to promote participants including students from knowledge in youth and to offer them different universities, volunteers from the possibility to improve their critical youth clubs and YRDP students to thinking about Cambodian history. At attend the public hearing of Kaing Guek the end of this study tour, YRDP will Upcoming activities Eav (Duch) who headed the Tuol Sleng organize a group discussion in order to allow students to show their opinions, 15 February 2009: YRDP students Prison in Phnom Penh. The aim of this feelings and concerns about the Khmer attend the film showing of “Time for event is to understand the judicial Rouge period. Justice” at YRDP. 30 students from system and the path to reconciliation. different Cambodian universities and At the end of the hearing, there will be YRDP will gather together to watch the a student discussion at YRDP in order

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Recent Activities- ECCC and Partner NGOs

21 January: Journalists Nic Dunlop and Putsata Reang in- 23 January: A group of Women’s International Group terviewed Co-Investigating Judge HE You Bunleng, Co- members visited the court and met with the Trial Chamber Prosecutors Chea Leang and Robert Petit and Chief of Public Judge Jean-Marc Lavergne. Affairs Dr. Helen Jarvis. 24 January: A group from the Center for Peace and Conflict 21 January: A group of German journalists facilitated by Studies visited the court. GTZ visited the court and met Co-Prosecutor Chea Leang, Acting Director of Administration Tony Kranh, Deputy Direc- 30 January: Senior Assistant Prosecutor Anees Ahmed tor of Administration Knut Rosandhaug, Chief of Public Af- spoke to graduate students of New York University (NYU) fairs, and and Press Officer Reach Sambath. and the National University of Singapore (NUS) on the activi- ties of the ECCC. The lecture was held at the NUS campus in 21 January: A delegation from the ECCC attended a work- Singapore. shop where "A survey of attitudes about social reconstruction and ECCC" by Human Rights Center of University of Califor- 11-12 February: Press Officer Reach Sambath, Interna- nia Berkeley was presented. tional Deputy Co-Prosecutor William Smith and Head of the Defence Support Section Richard Rogers visited the Foreign 22 January: A group from Human Rights Center, University Correspondents’ Club of Thailand in Bangkok and met media of California Berkeley, visited the Court and presented the representatives. results of their survey to the staff members of ECCC.

23 January: A Swiss TV crew from Televisione svizzera di lingua italiana (TSI) met the Chief of Public Affairs and na- tional and international judicial officers.

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