ABSTRACT
Nuon Chea, alias Brother No. 2, dressed himself well against the hostile surroundings of the courtroom. He wore a striped knitted hat and a thick jacket against the cold of the air-conditioning and black sunglasses to protect his eyes from the bright lights and the cameras. He didn’t need his outfit very long. “I am not happy with this hearing”, was one of the few words he spoke before using his right to leave the courtroom. It was the 27th of June 2011. Following years of preparations and more than three decades after the crimes were committed, the trial against four former Khmer Rouge leaders officially started at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) in Phnom Penh.
