Cambodian court to question ex-Khmer Rouge leaders (AP)

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia ? Three senior leaders of Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime will be questioned for the first time at a U.N.-backed tribunal over their roles in the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people when their movement held power in the 1970s.

The long-awaited trial began late last month with opening statements, and on Monday the court is to focus on charges involving the forced movement of people and crimes against humanity.

After the Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh in 1975 they began moving an estimated 1 million people from the capital into the countryside in an effort to create a communist agrarian utopia.

The defendants are accused of crimes against humanity, genocide, religious persecution, homicide and torture.

All have denied wrongdoing.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/asia/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111205/ap_on_re_as/as_cambodia_khmer_rouge

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