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PHNOM PENH - The UN-backed war crimes tribunal in Cambodia indicted four Khmer Rouge leaders Thursday for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity after a three-year investigation.
The four, whose trials were expected to start next year, are "Brother Number Two" Nuon Chea, the movement's ideologue; its head of state Khieu Samphan (picture) ; foreign minister Ieng Sary; and his wife, then-social affairs minister Ieng Thirith.
The trials would assess the accused's alleged actions "in the context of an attack on the entire population of Cambodia," the Cambodian co-investigating judge You Bunleng said. The four, who denied the charges, are accused of involvement in millions of deaths from execution, disease, starvation and overwork during the Khmer Rouge's 1975-79 Maoist regime.
"We estimate there were between 1.7 million and 2.2 million deaths of which approximately 800,000 were violent," You Bunleng said, citing a demographic survey. The genocide charges relate to persecution of Cham Muslims and ethnic Vietnamese living in Cambodia at the time.
All the accused are elderly - aged 78 to 84 - and there are fears one or more might die before a trial is concluded. The movement's leader, Pol Pot, died in 1998. Nuon Chea is accused of controlling the movement's security apparatus, including the notorious torture centre in Phnom Penh known as S-21, which was run by his subordinate Comrade Duch.
An estimated 20,000 people died at S-21, tortured and condemned to death as perceived enemies of the regime. In July, the court jailed Duch, whose real name is Kaing Guek Eav, for 30 years for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Both the prosecution and Duch's lawyers said last month that they would appeal the ruling, the tribunal's first. — DPA/Bernama
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PHNOM PENH - The UN-backed war crimes tribunal in Cambodia indicted four Khmer Rouge leaders Thursday for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity after a three-year investigation.
The four, whose trials were expected to start next year, are "Brother Number Two" Nuon Chea, the movement's ideologue; its head of state Khieu Samphan (picture) ; foreign minister Ieng Sary; and his wife, then-social affairs minister Ieng Thirith.
The trials would assess the accused's alleged actions "in the context of an attack on the entire population of Cambodia," the Cambodian co-investigating judge You Bunleng said. The four, who denied the charges, are accused of involvement in millions of deaths from execution, disease, starvation and overwork during the Khmer Rouge's 1975-79 Maoist regime.
"We estimate there were between 1.7 million and 2.2 million deaths of which approximately 800,000 were violent," You Bunleng said, citing a demographic survey. The genocide charges relate to persecution of Cham Muslims and ethnic Vietnamese living in Cambodia at the time.
All the accused are elderly - aged 78 to 84 - and there are fears one or more might die before a trial is concluded. The movement's leader, Pol Pot, died in 1998. Nuon Chea is accused of controlling the movement's security apparatus, including the notorious torture centre in Phnom Penh known as S-21, which was run by his subordinate Comrade Duch.
An estimated 20,000 people died at S-21, tortured and condemned to death as perceived enemies of the regime. In July, the court jailed Duch, whose real name is Kaing Guek Eav, for 30 years for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Both the prosecution and Duch's lawyers said last month that they would appeal the ruling, the tribunal's first. — DPA/Bernama
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