The court, dogged by allegations of political interference and strapped for cash, has yet to announce whether it will go ahead with a third and fourth case against five unnamed members of the brutal 1975-1979 regime.
But court monitors say a decision is expected in the next few weeks.
“Right now, all of the information we have suggests an imminent dropping of the cases against these five suspects,” Clair Duffy from the rights group Open Society Justice Initiative told AFP.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen – himself a mid-level Khmer Rouge cadre before turning against the movement – has repeatedly voiced opposition to further trials, saying they could plunge the country back into civil war.
Late last year, the premier even told visiting United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon that new cases were “not allowed”.
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