Khmer Rouge survivors hold memorial as leaders go on trial

SURVIVORS of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge held a remembrance ceremony in an infamous “killing field” yesterday, a day before a UN-backed tribunal begins a trial for three of the accused architects of some of the 20th century’s worst atrocities.

Relatives of the victims wept as they chanted and burned incense near a case filled with skulls at the Choeung Ek Genocide Center yesterday.

The memorial stands in a field where the Khmer Rouge executed people during their 1975-79 rule that left nearly 2 million dead.