Cambodia appoints "Killing Fields" trial judges


  • World
  • Thursday, 04 May 2006

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia approved on Thursday the domestic and international judges who will try Pol Pot's top surviving henchmen for the 1970s Khmer Rouge genocide, in which an estimated 1.7 million people died. 

Justice Minister Ang Vong Vathana said the southeast Asian nation's top legal body, the Supreme Council of Magistracy, had appointed 13 international judges and prosecutors, including reserves, for the long-awaited tribunal. 

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