The first trial weighing charges of genocide against Cambodia’s brutal 1970s Khmer Rouge regime opened yesterday with a prosecutor saying it will show that Cambodians were enslaved in inhumane conditions that led to the deaths of 1.7 million people from starvation, disease and execution. Khieu Samphan, the regime’s head of state, and Nuon Chea, right-hand man to the communist group’s…

First genocide trial against leaders of Khmer Rouge opens in Cambodia
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