Japan announces aid for Khmer Rouge tribunal records

Last Updated: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 09:13:00 +1100, australianetworknews.com

Japan has announced it will donate two million US dollars for a centre to keep the legal records of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge tribunal.

The documentation centre will store the public records of the UN-backed tribunal.

Japan's embassy says the centre will serve as a token of remembrance and non-recurrence of the Khmer Rouge regime.

It says the funds will also support the building of another legal centre where Cambodian lawyers can represent those who are socially vulnerable.

A month ago the court heard final arguments in its first war crimes trial -- that of former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch.

Up to two million people died as a result of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 to 1979.
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