Deal Opens Way to Try Khmer Rouge Leaders
From Times Wire Reports
Cambodia’s parliament ratified a pact with the United Nations today on setting up a tribunal to try the surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime for the deaths of about 1.7 million people.
The deal opens the way for the U.N. to raise $50 million for the tribunal, which will include foreign judges and prosecutors.
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