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Saturday, July 1, 2000
Volume:
16
Issue:
7
845
Abstract:
On May 24, 2000, United Nations (U.N.) officials announced that Cambodia and the U.N. reached an agreement to establish an international court to try former leaders of the Khmer Rouge, the guerrilla movement that allegedly killed more than a million Cambodians from 1975 to 1979.
The agreement was reached as a result of a May 19, 2000 letter from Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, in which Cambodia withdrew a demand that Cambodian prosecutors obtain veto authority over all indictments…[more]