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Khmer Rouge Tribunal Gears Up for Next Round

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Khmer Rouge Tribunal Gears Up for Next Round

Hearings in the next case against surviving leaders of the Pol Pot regime are expected to begin later this year.

Khmer Rouge Tribunal Gears Up for Next Round
Credit: ECCC POOL/Heng Sinith via Flickr

The Trial Chamber at the Khmer Rouge tribunal has outlined its strategy for Case 002/02, which will see additional charges laid against surviving leaders of Pol Pot’s regime, blamed for the deaths of up to 2.2 million people between April 1975 and early 1979.

Former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea, aka Brother Number Two, will now face charges relating to genocide, forced marriages and rape along with allegations of mistreatment of Buddhists, internal purges and the targeting of officials who belonged to the previous government.

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