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Trying the Khmer Rouge regime A U.N.-backed tribunal is seeking justice for the estimated 1.7 million people who died because of the extremist policies of the Khmer Rouge’s 1970s rule in Cambodia.
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Former Cambodian prime minister Pol Pot during a Kampuchean U.N. mission.
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April 17, 1975
Members of the Mouvement National group wearing black uniforms in Phnom Penh the day Cambodia fell under the control of the Khmer Rouge. The Mouvement National was a small political faction that welcomed the Khmer Rouge upon their arrival in Phnom Penh and were later eliminated.
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April 17, 1975
Young Khmer Rouge guerrilla soldiers enter Phnom Penh. The Cambodian capital surrendered after a three-and-a-half-month siege of Pol Pot forces.
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Dec. 10, 1979
Then-Cambodian Prime Minister Pol Pot at a news conference with Japanese reporters at a jungle camp near the Thai-Cambodian border. Japan's news service reported Pol Pot claimed to have 50,000 regular troops under his command, with a complete network of contacts linking eastern, central and western Cambodia. This was his first appearance since Vietnamese troops overturned his government in January 1979.
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Aug. 25, 2012
Photographs taken by the Khmer Rouge of some of the thousands of people held at Tuol Sleng, a former school in Phnom Penh turned into a torture center and death chamber during the fanatical communist movement's 1975-79 rule of Cambodia. The former head of the prison, known as Duch, is the only person to be convicted so far by a tribunal set up in 2006 with the backing of the United Nations to try those responsible for the Khmer Rouge atrocities.
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Feb. 10, 2009
A tourist looks at photographs of prisoners on display at the genocide museum at Tuol Sleng in Phnom Penh.
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Aug. 25, 2012
A former classroom that was used for torturing prisoners at Tuol Sleng, a notorious Khmer Rouge prison in Phnom Penh that is now a museum.
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The Washington Post
Feb. 10, 2009
A skull of a victim sits on display at the Choeung Ek memorial stupa south of Phnom Penh, marking the "killing fields" where the Khmer Rouge executed thousands of people between 1975 and 1979. As many as 2 million people were executed or died from being overworked and starved as the Khmer Rouge dismantled Cambodia during its rule in a bid to forge a communist utopia.
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July 25, 2012
Family members and relatives of Khmer Rouge victims take part in an emotional prayer ceremony at the Toul Sleng Genocide museum in Phnom Penh province.
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Jan. 31, 2012
Bou Meng, a Cambodian survivor of the Tuol Sleng prison, shows a portrait of former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav — better known as Duch — at the Tuol Sleng genocide museum in Phnom Penh. Duch oversaw the deaths of about 15,000 at the notorious torture prison.
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Feb. 5, 2009
A Cambodian Buddhist monk looks at portraits of victims of the Khmer Rouge at the Tuol Sleng genocide museum in Phnom Penh.
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July 25, 1997
Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot is assisted by soldiers upon arriving to attend his trial, during which he was denounced by former comrades at the Khmer Rouge stronghold of Anlong Veng in northern Cambodia. Pol Pot and three of his top commanders were sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of former Khmer Rouge defense minister Son Sen and his family.
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Feb. 3, 2012
Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav — better known as Duch — greeting judges in the courtroom in Phnom Penh.
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June 30, 2011
Defendant Ieng Thirith, a former social affairs minister, attends a hearing for former Khmer Rouge leaders at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. Thirith is set to walk free this week after an international court ruled on Sept. 13, 2012, that she was mentally unfit to stand trial. Thirith, Pol Pot’s sister-in-law, had made no improvement in her mental state since last November, the court said, when experts said she was suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
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Reuters
May 20, 2012
Cambodian students cry at the Choeung Ek killing fields memorial in Phnom Penh. Cambodians have demanded harsh punishment for ex-Khmer Rouge leaders as they marked the annual Day of Anger with a reenactment of crimes.
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Aug. 20, 2012
Youk Chhang, director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia, arranges some of the photos in a newly discovered collection of about a thousand photos of detainees at the notorious former Khmer Rouge prison S-21.
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Aug. 30, 2012
Taen Seng, a former Khmer Rouge fighter, at a roadside tea shop near Anlong Veng, where the fanatical communist movement held out against government troops until 1998. To his left is a veteran who lost his leg during the war.
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The Washington Post
Aug. 30, 2012
A caretaker at a fenced-off mound of earth said to contain the ashes of Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge leader who died in 1998.
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