Court Watch
It has been suggested by the New York Times and other media outlets that the ECCC will ultimately be seen as a “failure” due to perpetual funding problems, interference from the Cambodian gov- ernment, and a general lack of support from the international community. While the future of the ECCC may be uncertain, it has indeed brought some sense of justice to the Cambodian people, particularly to those who lost family members and suffered atrocities at the hands of the Khmer Rouge. As Andrew Cayley, the international co- prosecutor at the ECCC said, Cambodia is a coun- try whose “legal system was in ruins with few qualified lawyers left—most had been murdered by the Khmer Rouge—and yet they took the very courageous step of having these trials and ad- dressing the past. That’s hope. For all of us.”
* Submitted by Mollie A. Dapolito
ECtHR Affirms the Extraterritorial Application of the European Convention of Human Rights in Al-Skeini and Others v. United Kingdom
On July 7, 2011, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) issued its judgment in Al-Skeini and Others v. United Kingdom, a case concerning human rights viola- tions committed by British military forces con- ducting security operations in Iraq. The Court’s decision articulated the extraterritorial application of the European Convention on Human Rights (“the Convention”) and the human rights obliga- tions of armed forces operating abroad. Thus, the judgment will have wide-reaching consequences for members of the Council of Europe, particu- larly those member states with troops stationed overseas.
The proceedings arise from the deaths of six Iraqi
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