UN-Backed Tribunal Denies Appeal for Release of Three Khmer Rouge Leaders

by Gary Kopycinski on April 30, 2010

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NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–30 April 2010 – The United Nations-backed tribunal in Cambodia dealing with mass killings and other crimes committed under the Khmer Rouge three decades ago today dismissed appeals by three of the regime’s leaders to release them from provisional detention ahead of their trials.