![Five senior Khmer Rouge leaders remain in detention awaiting trial at the UN-backed tribunal. [AFP]](http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/img/news/base/camb_khmertribunal_afp_090608.jpg?%3CBR%3E "Five senior Khmer Rouge leaders remain in detention awaiting trial at the UN-backed tribunal. [AFP]")
Five senior Khmer Rouge leaders remain in detention awaiting trial at the UN-backed tribunal. [AFP]
Cambodia's UN-backed genocide tribunal has announced trials will be delayed until next year.
It says the delay is due to appeals and other necessary legal procedures.
The court says it recognizes that it can be frustrating for the millions who have been waiting for decades to see justice done.
However the statement says successfully conducting trials of this significance is a complex process and each step of the process must be followed carefully and conducted in line with the highest standards of justice
Five senior Khmer Rouge leaders, mostly aged in their 70s and 80s, remain in detention awaiting trial for their alleged roles in carrying out the genocidal policies of Pol Pot between 1975 and 1979.
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