The Associated Press
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The last of the former Khmer Rouge leaders standing trial for alleged crimes committed three decades ago was charged Monday with genocide.
Ieng Thirith, the ultracommunist regime's social affairs minister and the wife of another defendant, Ieng Sary, had earlier been charged with crimes against humanity. In addition, she will also appear before the U.N.-backed tribunal on charges of war crimes, murder, torture and religious persecution, said court spokesman Reach Sambath.
The tribunal is seeking justice for an estimated 1.7 million people who were executed or died from overwork, disease and malnutrition as a result of the group's policies during its 1975-79 rule.
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