Cambodia will not allow the UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal to prosecute former low-ranking officers of the genocidal regime because it would endanger national peace, the country’s leader told the UN chief today.

Cambodia’s genocide tribunal today indicted the four top surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime blamed for 1.7 million deaths in the 1970s, paving the way for the panel’s long-awaited second trial next year.

A UN-BACKED tribunal sentenced the Khmer Rouge’s chief jailer to 35 years for overseeing the deaths of up to 16,000 people – the first verdict involving a senior member of the “killing fields” regime that devastated a generation of Cambodians.

A former Khmer Rouge chief jailer was sentenced to 19 years behind bars today after a United Nations-backed tribunal found him guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

A UNITED Nations backed war crimes tribunal is expected to issue a decision today in the trial of the Khmer Rouge’s chief jailer and torturer – the first verdict involving a leader of the genocidal regime that created Cambodia’s killing fields.

THE Khmer Rouge prison chief blamed for thousands of deaths at an infamous torture centre asked Cambodia’s genocide tribunal to release him yesterday saying he had already spent 10 years in jail awaiting trial.

The Khmer Rouge prison chief blamed for thousands of deaths at an infamous torture centre asked Cambodia’s genocide tribunal to release him today saying he had already spent 10 years in jail awaiting trial.

PROSECUTORS in the genocide trial of a former Khmer Rouge prison chief demanded a 40-year jail sentence yesterday for a man they say is responsible for the killing of innocent people and spreading terror across Cambodia.

PROSECUTORS in the genocide trial of a former Khmer Rouge prison chief demanded a 40-year jail sentence yesterday for a man they say is responsible for the killing of innocent people and spreading terror across Cambodia.

Prosecutors in the genocide trial of a former Khmer Rouge prison chief demanded a 40-year jail sentence today for a man they said took innocent lives and spread terror across Cambodia.

The chief of the Khmer Rouge’s main torture centre, being tried by a UN-backed tribunal on genocide charges, today asked the Cambodian people to give him “the harshest punishment”.

A SENIOR Khmer Rouge prison guard has told a war crimes tribunal he was forced to send thousands of detainees to an execution site, where they were brutally killed and their bodies thrown into mass graves.

The former head of the Khmer Rouge’s most notorious prison told today how he experimented with different torture methods in his early years to see how people reacted.

The Khmer Rouge jailer with the blood of thousands of victims on his hands today admitted his guilt in public for the first time.

A former teacher accused of carrying out the murderous policies of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge finally faced trial today, as prosecutors opened their first case against the hard-core communists who turned the country into a killing field three decades ago.

The long-awaited Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal today wrapped up its opening session with judges saying they still need to finalise the list of witnesses before announcing when the regime’s alleged chief torturer will take the stand.

A notorious torture centre boss went before Cambodia’s genocide tribunal today for its first trial over the deaths of around 1.7 million people at the hands of the Khmer Rouge regime more than three decades ago.

The former head of a notorious Khmer Rouge torture centre was moved to tears today when he was taken by Cambodia’s genocide tribunal to the scene of his alleged crimes.

A GAUNT former schoolteacher who once ran a notorious torture centre for Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge made his first public courtroom appearance yesterday, evoking curiosity and anger as he stood before judges of a UN-assisted genocide tribunal.

A gaunt former schoolteacher who once ran a notorious torture centre for Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge made his first public courtroom appearance today, evoking curiosity and anger as he stood before judges of a UN-assisted genocide tribunal.

Cambodia’s UN-backed genocide tribunal opened its doors today for the first public court appearance of a Khmer Rouge figure since the regime’s brutal reign of terror in the 1970s.

The UN-backed genocide tribunal in Cambodia arrested the former Khmer Rouge head of state today following his release from a hospital, officials said.

Cambodian police detained the ex-foreign minister of the brutal 1970s Khmer Rouge regime and his wife and took them to a UN-backed genocide tribunal to face charges.

A former photographer at a Khmer Rouge prison has been summoned to testify as a witness before a UN-supported Cambodian genocide tribunal.

Nuon Chea, the top surviving leader of Cambodia’s notorious Khmer Rouge, whose radical policies were responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people, was charged today with crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Police in Cambodia detained the top surviving leader of the Khmer Rouge today over his role in the notorious regime that caused the deaths of 1.7 million people in the late 1970s.

Cambodia’s genocide tribunal charged the former chief of a Khmer Rouge torture centre with crimes against humanity today, marking the court’s first indictment against a leader of the communist group believed responsible for the deaths of 1.7 million people.

A notorious Khmer Rouge prison chief is facing questioning at the Cambodian genocide tribunal headquarters today.

Ta Mok, the former military commander of Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge and a chief architect of the regime’s atrocities, died today in a military hospital.

Judges and prosecutors from Cambodia and foreign countries were today sworn in to begin the UN-backed judicial process to try former Khmer Rouge leaders for genocide and crimes against humanity.

Cambodia's Senate has approved a law on creating a tribunal of judges to try the leaders of the murderous Khmer Rouge regime of the 1970s.