Sunday, November 19, 2006

Opening Day

The ECCC judges have all arrived in town and are staying in the Raffles Hotel. Sounds like a nice way to spend a week but I am sure they will have a very difficult time finalizing the internal rules to have any time to enjoy the hotel- or the city. One newcomer to the group will be Judge Cartwright from New Zealand, who was not present during the original swearing-in ceremony back in July. It will be interesting to see if they decide to give her a public swearing-in ceremony as part of the week's events.

The press have been invited to attend the opening session on Monday and civil society groups have been asked to give their input on the draft internal rules on Monday afternoon. The afternoon session should be the one with the fireworks as among the groups invited to give input is the Cambodian bar.

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