Lawmakers Approve Khmer Rouge Tribunal
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From Times Wire Reports
Cambodian lawmakers approved a U.N.-backed plan to try surviving Khmer Rouge leaders for genocide, a quarter of a century after the radical communists were ousted from power.
The vote ended seven years of negotiations and delays over a pact with the United Nations establishing the tribunal and cleared a major hurdle toward bringing to justice members of the regime blamed for nearly 2 million deaths.
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