Japan gives 4mln dollars to Cambodia KRouge court

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Japan gives 4mln dollars to Cambodia KRouge court

Source: AFP via Saigon GP Daily

Friday ,May 01,2009, Posted at: 13:44(GMT+7)

PHNOM PENH, May 1, 2009 (AFP) - Japan has made a fresh donation of four million dollars to the UN-backed Khmer Rouge court, according to a statement seen Friday, sustaining the Cambodian court until the end of the year.

The statement from the Japanese embassy in Phnom Penh said the country, already the tribunal's biggest donor, would contribute 4,171,000 dollars to finance the trial budget after a request from the Cambodian government ...

Under a complicated agreement, Cambodian and international staff have separate budgets funded by countries including Japan, France, Australia and Germany ...

The on-going first Khmer Rouge trial began in February, when the regime's notorious prison chief, Kaing Guek Eav, better known by the alias Duch, went before the court.

Read more: http://www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/International/2009/5/70453/

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