By Suy Se, AFP
November 21, 2011
Three Khmer Rouge leaders were responsible for turning Cambodia into a "massive slave camp", prosecutors said, as the defendants' landmark trial got under way at a UN-backed war crimes court.
More than three decades after the brutal Killing Fields era, hundreds of Cambodians packed into the Phnom Penh court to hear the opening statements, seen as a key moment in the still-traumatised nation's quest for justice.
Defendants "Brother Number Two" Nuon Chea, ex-head of state Khieu Samphan and former foreign minister Ieng Sary deny charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity over the deaths of up to two million people.
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