By Puy Kea
PHNOM PENH , June 4 KYODO -- Doctors said Wednesday that they were considering sending former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan back to U.N.-Cambodia tribunal facilities after a two-week stay in hospital, saying his health has improved over the past few days. A senior doctor who is in charge of Khieu Samphan's health at Calmette Hospital, but preferred not to be identified, told Kyodo News that Khieu Samphan's health has improved step by step and that the hospital leadership is considering sending him back to the detention center at the Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts in Cambodia, likely Thursday or soon thereafter, if his condition remains stable. The 76-year-old was hospitalized after suffering high blood pressure on May 21. So Socheat, his wife, confirmed to Kyodo News that her husband's health has improved since her husband suffered a mild stroke. He also had mild stroke in November last year. She said her husband still cannot get up on his own and still needs help moving his left arm and leg. She added that a few days after he was taken to hospital his health deteriorated, but now ''he is becoming better.'' Khieu Samphan was nominal head of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia in the late 1970s and has been charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes by the ECCC. He is one of the Khmer Rouge's five prime suspects who have been charged and detained at the ECCC. The other four are: Nuon Chea, better known as the Khmer Rouge's Brother No. 2; Kaing Khek Ieu, alias Duch, head of the Tuol Sleng torture center in Phnom Penh ; Ieng Sary, deputy prime minister and foreign minister, and his wife Ieng Thirith, education and social affair minister. The Khmer Rouge is blamed for the deaths of at least 1.7 million Cambodians during their rule from 1975 to 1979.
PHNOM PENH , June 4 KYODO -- Doctors said Wednesday that they were considering sending former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan back to U.N.-Cambodia tribunal facilities after a two-week stay in hospital, saying his health has improved over the past few days. A senior doctor who is in charge of Khieu Samphan's health at Calmette Hospital, but preferred not to be identified, told Kyodo News that Khieu Samphan's health has improved step by step and that the hospital leadership is considering sending him back to the detention center at the Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts in Cambodia, likely Thursday or soon thereafter, if his condition remains stable. The 76-year-old was hospitalized after suffering high blood pressure on May 21. So Socheat, his wife, confirmed to Kyodo News that her husband's health has improved since her husband suffered a mild stroke. He also had mild stroke in November last year. She said her husband still cannot get up on his own and still needs help moving his left arm and leg. She added that a few days after he was taken to hospital his health deteriorated, but now ''he is becoming better.'' Khieu Samphan was nominal head of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia in the late 1970s and has been charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes by the ECCC. He is one of the Khmer Rouge's five prime suspects who have been charged and detained at the ECCC. The other four are: Nuon Chea, better known as the Khmer Rouge's Brother No. 2; Kaing Khek Ieu, alias Duch, head of the Tuol Sleng torture center in Phnom Penh ; Ieng Sary, deputy prime minister and foreign minister, and his wife Ieng Thirith, education and social affair minister. The Khmer Rouge is blamed for the deaths of at least 1.7 million Cambodians during their rule from 1975 to 1979.
KyodoJune 04, 2008
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