March in Cambodia urges fast trial

Picture: Marchers demanding fast KR trial (above) and Headquarter of the KR Trial (below).

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- Some 600 hundred protesters, including Buddhist nuns and Cambodian Muslims, marched in the capital Tuesday to urge a speedier trial for former leaders of the murderous Khmer Rouge.
A long-delayed, United Nations-backed tribunal is seeking accountability for atrocities during the Khmer Rouge's 1975-79 rule, under which an estimated 1.7 million people died from starvation, disease, overwork and execution.
The marchers, with students and Buddhist monks also among them, walked around five kilometers (three miles) to the tribunal's office on Phnom Penh's outskirts.
The genocide trials are scheduled to begin next year. Five high-ranking former leaders are in detention after being charged with crimes against humanity and other charges.

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