Khmer Rouge Tribunal Set to Begin Work

The Cambodian government has announced that the judges of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal will be sworn in on July 3, with prosecutors to begin “the formal launching of judicial work” on July 10. Trials are expected to begin in 2007.

Cambodia and the UN agreed in 2003 to set up a hybrid tribunal to prosecute surviving Khmer Rouge leaders for the deaths of nearly 1.7 million people during the regime’s 1975-79 genocidal rule.

My previous post on possible defendants is here.