By Michael Martin
International Business Times
2011 has ushered in a judgment day for the aged.
And not just for the high-ranking former officials of the Khmer Rouge now on trial by a United Nations-backed tribunal in Phnom Penh.
German courts finally convicted a wheelchair-bound 91-year-old Nazi death camp guard for mass murder this year, 66 years after the Holocaust.
A 74-year-old ousted Tunisian president was tried in absentia for corruption and murder during his 23 years in office.
A bedridden 83-year-old Egyptian ex-dictator was charged with embezzlement and the systematic killing and torture of Egyptians, 30 years after his rise to power.
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