Nuon Chea, Pol Pot's right hand man of the Khmer Rouge regime, sits in a dock during his first public appearance at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) in the outskirts of Phnom Penh February 4, 2008. Cambodia's U.N.-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal adjourned a bail hearing on Monday for "Brother Number Two" Nuon Chea after his Dutch defense lawyer failed to show up. An estimated 1.7 million people were executed or died of torture, disease or starvation under Pol Pot's 1975-79 reign.REUTERS/Heng Sinith/Pool (CAMBODIA)
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