“I would prefer to see this tribunal fail instead of seeing war return to my country,” Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said a day after the joint U.N.-Cambodian court resumed its trial of Pol Pot’s chief torturer.

“We wish to see this tribunal for at least these five, and this is the minimum of the minimum,” said Kek Galabru, a leading Cambodian human-rights campaigner. “A lot of people ask: ‘Why only five? Why only five? Why only five?”‘

“Some in Phnom Penh are apparently frightened that the Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts of Cambodia or E.C.C.C. might actually succeed, that it might serve as an example of accountability that could be applied more widely,” said James A. Goldston, executive director of the Open Society Justice Initiative, a New York-based organization that pursues legal reform.

“My suffering cannot be erased – the memories keep haunting me,” said Vann Nath, who lost two children to Pol Pot’s 1975-1979 “killing fields” reign of terror.

“I am dismayed by the deportation from Cambodia of Uighur asylum seekers to China. Anyone can become a refugee in today’s world, and may have to seek international protection under international refugee law,” wrote Christophe Peschoux, Cambodia representative of the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

“UNHCR committed wrongdoing, because they kept the Uighurs for nearly one month and did not send them to another country”. “They wanted to pollute the government when they told the reporter, and nobody would have known [about the Uighurs] if they did not tell the reporter,” Khieu Kanharith said, as quoted in the Cambodia Daily (online news article is not available).

“We will forget the free market for a while. We will fix the price. We provide the right for them [to operate in a free market], but they don’t want to use this right; they want to fight each other, so the government needs to intervene,” said So Khun, Cambodia’s Ministry of Post and Telecommunications.

“They could accuse [the government of] anything they like. Cambodia operates under a modernised state of law. Everyone is together under one law,” spokesman for Cambodia’s Council of Ministers Phay Siphan told BBC World Service’s Robert Walker.