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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- A top Khmer Rouge leader blamed "unruly elements" within the Khmer Rouge's brutal Maoist regime in the late 1970s for the estimated 1.7 million civilian deaths.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- Former Khmer Rouge prison warden Duch asked for release on the last day of his war crimes trial in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, accused of crimes against humanity, faced closing arguments Monday at his trial in Cambodia.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, April 1 (UPI) -- Attorneys for accused Cambodian war criminal and Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, say their client deserves more freedoms in jail.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, March 30 (UPI) -- Trials of Khmer Rouge officials began Monday in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 30 years after the end of the vicious communist reign that left 1.7 million people dead.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, March 29 (UPI) -- Prosecutors in Cambodia allege former math teacher Kaing Guek Eav oversaw the torture and killing of more than 15,000 people in a Khmer Rouge prison.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- The first war crimes trial for any Cambodian accused of taking part in the 1970s Khmer Rouge genocide opened Tuesday in Phnom Penh, observers said.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- The accused war criminal who served as chief interrogator for the Khmer Rouge is to guide his judges around a torture center and execution site.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- The alleged main torturer in the Khmer Rouge regime appeared Tuesday before a genocide tribunal as it opened its hearing in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Former Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan was arrested by a United Nations-backed genocide tribunal trying those accused of mass killings in Cambodia.
