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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
By SOPHENG CHEANG, Associated Press
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A senior Khmer Rouge leader has told a U.N.-backed tribunal that he had no real authority during its brutal rule of Cambodia in the 1970s and that prosecutors are using inaccurate information against him.
Former President Khieu Samphan said in his rebuttal Wednesday of the prosecutors’ opening remarks that their accounts tying him to Khmer Rouge atrocities are based mainly on unreliable old news reports and books.
He and two other former senior leaders of the group are being tried for their part in policies that led to the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians.
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