In what has to be seen as a surprising move the court has published a draft version of its internal rules and asked for Cambodian civil society to comment. This is clearly not going to be business as usual for a Cambodian court. It will be interesting to see, how many of the local and international NGOs take advantage of the opportunity to review this document and then to see how seriously the court takes the input that comes back. But all in all this has to be seen in a pretty positive light by those critics of the court who believed that there would be no transparency.
The press release from the court issued on Thursday claimed that the rules would be up on all the relevant websites by Friday night- of course that didn't happen and as of this morning only the UN site (www.unakrt-online.org) has them available in English and Khmer on its documents page.
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