Four now old and infirm members of the Khmer Rouge's ruling elite were facing a war crimes tribunal today, decades after their plans for a Communist Party utopia in Cambodia killed around 1.7 million people by execution, medical neglect, overwork and starvation.

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 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.

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.

One of Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge leaders was brought before a UN-backed genocide tribunal today.

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.