25 July 2010
By Guy Delauney
BBC News, Phnom Penh
Cambodia's UN-backed genocide court has taken four years to conclude its first case
Marooned in the dusty outskirts of Phnom Penh, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia are hardly in the most auspicious of locations.
White-elephant housing projects stand half-built along the road out of the city. And for much of the time since it started work in 2006, it seemed the Khmer Rouge Tribunal would remain unfinished as well.
But the court's combination of local and international legal officials have now steered one case to its conclusion.
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