Cambodian House Agrees to Establish a War Crimes Tribunal

On January 1, 2001, the Cambodian National Assembly agreed to establish a tribunal to try former Khmer Rouge leaders, a major step in the U.N.-lead efforts to bring to trial persons in the Maoist regime that killed more than a million people in the 1970s. The passage of the new law follows two years of negotiations following pressure from the U.N. and the United States and largely fulfills the U.N. demands…[more]