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  • A tourist takes pictures of human skulls of Cambodian Khmer Rouge victims at Choeung Ek stupa, better known as "Killing field" on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

    'Killing fields' victims await Khmer Rouge trial

    Survivors of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime held a remembrance ceremony in an infamous "killing field" Sunday, a day before a U.N.-backed tribunal begins a trial for three of the accused architects of some of the 20th century's worst atrocities.

  • Cambodia's U.N.-backed genocide tribunal has indicted the four top surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime, from left to right, Nuon Chea, 84, the group's ideologist; former head of state and public face of the regime, Khieu Samphan, 79; former Foreign Minister Ieng Sary; and his wife Ieng Thirith, ex-minister for social affairs, both in their 80, for 1.7 million deaths in the 1970s. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith/Chor Sokunthea, File)

    Khmer Rouge tribunal indicts 4 senior leaders

    Cambodia's U.N.-backed genocide tribunal on Thursday formally indicted the four top surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime blamed for 1.7 million deaths in the 1970s, paving the way for the panel's long-awaited second trial next year.

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