Tribunal Sworn In for Khmer Rouge Trials
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From Times Wire Reports
Judges and prosecutors were sworn in for a U.N.-backed tribunal to try former Khmer Rouge leaders on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity in Cambodia.
The Khmer Rouge regime killed an estimated 1.7 million people in the late 1970s. None of the top officials have been held accountable. Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot died in 1998.
Seventeen Cambodian and 10 U.N.-appointed judicial officials were installed in the capital, Phnom Penh. Trials are expected to start next year.
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