PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, March 5 (UPI) -- The former Khmer Rouge president of Cambodia, Khieu Samphan denies any role in the genocide of the 1970s in memoirs published Friday, the BBC reported.
"The Recent History of Cambodia and My Successive Positions," went on sale for $3.30 per copy. A French-language version of the book was published in France last month.
"The accusations leveled against me -- that I was 'one of the architects of the genocide of Democratic Kampuchea,' or that I 'helped to cover up the construction of such a regime' are totally wrong," he wrote.
The Khmer Rouge have been blamed for the deaths of more than 1 million people while they ruled Cambodia.
The former president is expected to be one of the first of the surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime to stand trial at a tribunal agreed to by the United Nations and the Cambodian government in December, but a date has not been set.
Two Khmer Rouge officials are in prison awaiting trial -- Ta Mok, a regional commander nicknamed "The Butcher," and Kang Kek Ieu, who was the boss of Phnom Penh's notorious Tuol Sleng prison.
