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U.N. approves genocide tribunal

UNITED NATIONS: With enough money now in hand, Cambodia can begin organising a U.N.-supported tribunal to put aging Khmer Rouge leaders on trial for genocide and crimes against humanity, the United Nations announced. The breakthrough on Friday came eight years after the Cambodian Government first sought U.N. help in financing the prosecutions, and more than a quarter-century after the communist revolutionaries decimated their southeast Asian nation's population through mass executions, torture, starvation and overwork. At a donors' conference here last month, U.N. member Governments pledged about $38 millions to the project. The murderous Khmer Rouge regime, in power from 1975 to 1979, was believed responsible for the deaths of at least 1.7 million people, out of a Cambodian population of 8 million. — AP

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