Cambodia blocks low-ranking Khmer Rouge trials

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.

Prime Minister Hun Sen’s comments, made during a two-hour meeting with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, were the government’s latest obstruction of UN efforts to bring more Khmer Rouge leaders to justice.