Ieng Thirith (C) sits in the dock during her pre-trial chamber public hearing at Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, February 24, 2009.Press TV
The last of the former Khmer Rouge leaders standing trial for crimes allegedly committed three decades ago has been charged with genocide.
On Monday, the UN-backed Cambodian war crimes tribunal charged Ieng Thirith, 78, the ultracommunist Khmer Rouge regime's social affairs minister, with torture and religious persecution of Cambodia's ethnic Vietnamese and Cham Muslim minorities.
Thirith had previously been accused of “murder, imprisonment and other inhumane acts” for her role in a regime blamed for the deaths of a least 1.7 million people, who were executed or died from overwork, disease, and malnutrition as a result of the Khmer Rouge's policies during its 1975-1979 rule.
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