PHNOM PENH (AFP): The last surviving senior Khmer Rouge leader denied responsibility for genocide committed more than 40 years ago in Cambodia during his closing remarks Thursday (Aug19) to an international tribunal.
Under the ultra-Maoist Khmer Rouge regime led by "Brother Number 1" Pol Pot, some two million Cambodians died from overwork, starvation and mass executions from 1975 to 1979.
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