Dec 25, 2007
Cambodians Seek Quick Genocide Trials
“If the process of the trial continues to be too slow, then the aging former Khmer Rouge leaders will be die before facing trial”
Some 600 protesters marched in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh on Tuesday to call for speedier trials for the former leaders of Khmer Rouge regime.
A long-delayed, United Nations-backed tribunal is seeking accountability for atrocities during the Khmer Rouge's 1975-79 rule, under which an estimated 1.7 million people died from starvation, disease, overwork and execution.
The marchers, including students and Buddhist monks, walked 3 miles to the tribunal's office on Phnom Penh's outskirts. Read more
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