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eppur_se_muova

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Mon Nov-19-07 01:16 AM
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Top Khmer Rouge leader detained

Source: BBC

Police in Cambodia have arrested Khieu Samphan, the Khmer Rouge's former head of state, and taken him to a UN-backed genocide tribunal.

The elderly ex-leader was detained after he was released from hospital in the capital, Phnom Penh.

He is the fifth person to be targeted by the court, set up to bring surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge to the dock.

More than one million people are thought to have died between 1975 and 1979 under the brutal Maoist regime.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7101154.stm

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Mon Nov-19-07 12:35 PM
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1. About time.

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