PHNOM PENH: A leading Cambodian genocide researcher is urging China to open up archives that might contain evidence of Khmer Rouge atrocities that could be used in legal proceedings against the regime's surviving leaders.
Information China and other countries that had diplomatic ties with the Khmer Rouge government has could help establish a full legal and historical accounting'' of its brutal 1975-79 rule, said Youk Chhang, director of the Documentation Centre of Cambodia, in a letter dated on Monday.