The death of Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic during his trial has heightened the need to start the long-delayed trials of aging Khmer Rouge leaders on charges of genocide, United Nations officials said on Tuesday. “We all know that the possible accused all are aging, so we really have to start the process as soon as we can,” Michelle Lee, the U.N.’s deputy director of the court administration preparing the trials. No date has been set for the trials of the surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge under whose rule an estimated 1.7 million people were killed or died of forced labor, starvation or disease between 1975 and the end of 1978. Full Story
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