RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-2001 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/zg651950g commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Fall of Hong Kong) represent a programme of, on average, one lecture every three weeks. This is a splendid achievement, especially considering that the programme is administered, and mounted, on an entirely voluntary basis. My thanks, and admiration, for this marvellous programme go to our excellent Hon. Activities Co-ordinator, Mrs Valery Garrett and her hard-working Committee. Without them it would not be possible for me to be able to be as positive as I am on the work of the Society. Members who have suggestions for future talks are always very welcome to give their suggestions to Mrs. Garrett or to any other Councillor. In addition to the Lecture Programme, Mrs. Garrett and her Committee have also put together during this last year a very fine programme of visits: eight to locations in Hong Kong (including the two to the Central Library in Causeway Bay) and a further two to locations outside Hong Kong, that is, to Korea in September and to Bhutan in February. These ten visits represent a visit every 4½ weeks of the Society's year. Details are given in the Appendix to this Report. While it would be invidious of me to single out any of the talks or visits, I feel I nonetheless have to mention especially the Society's February 2002 visit to Bhutan. This is the first time the Society has visited Bhutan since 1980, and the tremendous success of this visit is due to the hard work put in to it by Dr. Brian Shaw (who also led the 1980 visit). I would like, on behalf of the Society at large, to thank Dr. Shaw most sincerely. I am glad to be able to report that the programme of lectures and visits has been agreed for the next six months, and sketched out for much of the following six months. The upcoming programme, I can promise, is just as exciting as the programme undertaken in the last year. Among the visits will be a major overseas visit to Phnom Penh and Angkor Wat, at the end of September and the beginning of October. Members interested in this visit should keep an eye open for further details in the upcoming Newsletter! The Journal and other Publications During the year, the Society reached a milestone. For the last xxii ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-2003 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/2v242g390 102 Nevertheless, the use of the tribunal can only be one step in the long process of rebuilding Cambodia. Simultaneous efforts must be made to create, almost from nothing, a viable and just legal system. The slow process of individual and community reconciliation must also be pursued. REFERENCE WEBSITES Documentation Center of Cambodia [DC-CAM] www.bigpond.com.kh/users/dccam.genocide Royal Government of Cambodia: The Khmer Rouge Trial Task Force www.cambodia.gov.kh/krt/ Phnom Penh Post www.phnompenhpost.com NOTES 1 See Report of the Group of Experts for Cambodia established pursuant to General Assembly Resolution 52/135 (Feb 1999) Annex. UN doc A/53/850, S/1999/231. 2 Law on the Establishment of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia for the Prosecution of Crimes Committed During the Period of Democratic Kampuchea. (10 August 2001) NS/RKM/0801/12. * "Draft Agreement Between the United Nations and the Royal Government of Cambodia Concerning the Prosecution Under Cambodian Law of Crimes Committed During the Period of Democratic Kampuchea" 17 March 2003. See UN General Assembly: Report of the Secretary General on Khmer Rouge Trials, UN doc A/57/769, 31 March 2003. 4 UN Doc GA/10135 (13 May 2003). 5 Vong Sokheng and Richard Woodd: "Jumbo cabinet ends stalemate" Phnom Penh Post, 2-15 July 2004, page 1-2. 6 Yun Samean: “Hun Sen Says Only UN Can Arrest KR”, Cambodia Daily, 7 June 2004, page 1-2. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-2003 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/2v242g390 103 'Decision to Establish the Task Force for Cooperation with Foreign Legal Experts; Decree 55$Sr, 10 August 1999. * Ea Meng Try: Victims and Perpetrators? Testimony of Young Khmer Rouge Comrades, Documentation Center of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, 2001. See also Rasy Pheng Pong: "Tuy Kin: A Traumatized Perpertrator" Searching for the Truth, special English Edition, Third Quarter 2003, page 23. * Sok Siphana: Formation of a Legal and Judicial Reform Strategy for Cambodia, Cambodia Legal Resources Development Center, Phnom Penh, 2002, page 41-42. "See the statement of the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia, the Cambodian Defenders Project and Legal Aid of Cambodia reproduced in Michael Hayes: "Cambodian Lawyers United for UN Trial”, Phnom Penh Post, page 1-14 October 1999. 11 See CUL Seminar on Judicial Functions, Phnom Penh, 5-23 July 1993, reproduced in Basil Fernando (ed) Problems Facing the Cambodian legal System, Asian Human Rights Commission, Hong Kong, 1998, at page 133. Tom Fawthrop: "Khmer Rouge trial makes legal history", Phnom Penh Post, 5-18 January 2001. 11 Richard Woodd: "Guillotine aimed at KR trial funds", Phnom Penh Post, 2-15 July 2004, page 1 and 3. 14 See Stephen Heder with Brian Tittlemore, Seven Candidates for the Prosecution: Accountability for the Crimes of the Khmer Rouge, 2nd edition, 2004, Documentation Centre of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, page 1. 15 Australia, for example, has supported capacity building of the Cambodian legal system, and has also committed to a voluntary contribution for the proposed Tribunal. 16 See, for example, the Report to the General Assembly A/58/268 (15 August 2003) Role and Achievements of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in assisting the Government and people of Cambodia in the promotion and protection of human rights. 17 "Ea Meng Try: Justice and Reconciliation, MA Dissertation, Coventry University, September 2003, page 27-31. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-2003 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/2v242g390 104 18 Article 90, Protocol I of 1977 to the 1949 Geneva Conventions. 19 Robyn Dixon: "In South Africa Truth is Easy, Reconciliation Hard", Cambodia Daily, 23 June 2004, p9. 20 Ea Meng-Try: Justice and reconciliation, op cit p49-50, and 57-58. Anon: Using Buddhist Values and Human Rights to Promote Free, Fair and Secure elections in Cambodia, Cambodian Institute of Human Rights, Phnom Penh, November 1997, p36 and p40. 21 Komai Hiroshi; The Role of Buddhism in the Reconstruction of the Cambodian Rural Villages, paper presented at the National Socio-Cultural Research Congress on Cambodia, Royal University of Phnom Penh, 19 December 1997, p.25 22 Thomas Michel: "The Ethics of Pardon and Peace" Sedos Bulletin vol 36, no3/4, March-April 2004, pp89-94. 23 See Carla Bongiorno: "The Cambodian Backpacker Murders and Khmer Rouge Immunity", Australian Journal of Asian Law, 2001, no 3, pp261-279. 25 Quoted in Yun Samean: "Prosecutor Defends KR Leader Arrest Order", Cambodia Daily, 8 June 2004, p1. 26 Chhay Yiheang: "The dialectic of a Khmer Rouge trial", Phnom Penh Post, 29 September - 12 October 2004. ================================================================================