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Khmer Rouge court 'has no money to pay wages'

Cambodia's UN-backed Khmer Rouge war crimes court warned Friday that it did not have money to pay hundreds of workers from next month because of a lack of new donor pledges.

Cambodian officials, police and security stand guard in front of the main gate of the Extraordinary Chamber in the Courts of Cambodia in Phnom Penh on September 16, 2012. Cambodia's UN-backed Khmer Rouge war crimes court warned Friday that it did not have money to pay hundreds of workers from next month because of a lack of new donor pledges.

It said the funding crunch would affect 300 Cambodian employees, including drivers, prosecutors and judges, unless more funding was found.

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