Sunday, October 15, 2006

Land of the Missing

There are a couple of links to the left of this blog. But strangely none of them are to the Website for the ECCC. The first is a link to the Cambodian Government's website from something called the Khmer Rouge Task Force (which is no longer in operation) and the other is a strange page from the UN giving no currnet information and advertizing for judge positions that were filled months ago. So what's up? The ECCC has been in operation since February and still has no website?

Speaking of missing things has anyone seen an ECCC car or bus anywhere in town? There were a few at the confernce in Kratie, but in Phnom Penh you never see anything at all. I met with one of the international staff memebers a few weeks ago and he arrived in an old suzuki sidekick. Even stranger, I have heard from some folks to that work near there, that the bulk of the staff arrive to the office each morning in purple Cambodian 'tourist' buses. The UN assistance didn't include cars? A message to the UN from Hen Sen maybe? Or has someone in the ECCC missed the class on how to establish your image. I remember reading that Germany had donated the cars for the court, so it might be interesting to go out to the ECCC site and see if they have a parking lot full of cars collecting dust.

Lets hope they are not useing government 'tourist' buses to interview witnesses.

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