'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
Independent voices from the TWT Communities
It was supposed to be a model for international justice and national reconciliation: a U.N.-backed tribunal to hold trials in one of the 20th century's grimmest chapters - the Khmer Rouge's murderous 1970s regime in Cambodia.
"I did not want ... the U.N. emblem to be given to an entity that did not, shall we say, represent the highest international standards," Hans Corell, the chief U.N. negotiator at the time, told the AP. "But, of course, what we predicted seems to have developed into the problem that we were concerned would occur."
