Tribunal 1-2-3

Tribunal 1-2-3

Tribunal 1-2-3

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The Minnesota Lawyers International Human Rights Committee and Minnesota Advocates for Cambodia, hold a mock tribunal of the International Court of Justice against the Coalition government of Democratic Kampuchea, in 1990 in St. Paul, MN in which survivors of the regime, experts such as Ben Kiernan, and clinical psychologist Eric Hagley, who had been working with Cambodian refugees in Minnesota take the stand. The ICJ in this mock trial found: 1. The Coalition government of Democratic Kampuchea has committed "acts of genocide" against the Cham, Vietnamese, Chinese and Thai populations; against the Buddhist monkshood and against its own nation groups, the Khmer people of Cambodia. Those acts of genocide include, but are not limited to the following: a. Mass killings through massacres, extermination centers and arbitrary killings; b. Infliction of bodily and mental harm through torture and ill treatment, physical exhaustion, induced starvation, untreated disease and mental cruelty; c. And deliberately inflicted conditions of life including social dispersions, forced marriages, forced labor, induced starvation and untreated disease. 2. That the government of Democratic Kampuchea breached its obligations under the general, customary international law not to commit or tolerate crimes against humanity including but not limited to mass arbitrary killings and systematic torture. 3. That the government of Democratic Kampuchea is in continuing violation of its international legal obligations for failing to punish those persons who committed acts of genocide and otherwise violated international law. Based on the foregoing, the court ordered that the government of Democratic Kampuchea institute proceedings in a domestic tribunal to bring to justice those responsible for the above listed acts of genocide and violations of international law. Parts of the mock trial preceding what is recorded on 42(1). Witnesses and survivor testimonies for the mock trial are recorded on this disc. Parts of the mock trial preceding what is recorded on 42(1) and 42(2). Opening statements are made by the prosecution and the defense and Ben Kiernan of Yale University takes the stand to testify. A few survivors of the regime also testify.