Ex-minister to face Cambodia genocide tribunal

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.

Former Khmer Rouge Foreign Minister Ieng Sary and his wife, Ieng Thirith, who served the regime as a minister for social affairs, were taken to offices of the tribunal’s co-investigating judges in Phnom Penh under warrants issued for both of them, said tribunal spokesman Reach Sambath.