The Curse of a Nation
The second trial of Khmer Rouge leaders is due to start, and for some, it's none too soon
- Published: 26/09/2010 at 04:34 AM
- Newspaper section: Spectrum
The Khmer Rouge tribunal in Cambodia has indicted the last surviving senior leaders of the regime and charged them with crimes against humanity, breaches of the Geneva Conventions, genocide and murder, torture and religious persecution.
GRIM REMINDER: Skulls of Khmer Rouge victims.
The final four - Khieu Samphan, 79, ex-foreign minister Ieng Sary, 84, his wife Ieng Thirith, 78, and Nuon Chea, 84, the ultra-Maoist's second-in-command - are blamed for the deaths of perhaps a third of the population and will front a trial reminiscent of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
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- Writer: Luke Hunt
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