The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) [official website], Cambodia's UN-supported war crimes tribunal, announced Thursday that it would declassify more than 1,700 documents [press release, PDF] including "victims' 'confessions' and biographies, witness statements, transcripts of in camera hearings, and rogatory letters." The documents being declassified are those which were part of "Case 001" which resulted in a guilty verdict and life sentence [JURIST reports] for former Khmer Rouge [BBC backgrounder] official Kaing Guek Eav [case materials; JURIST news archive]