Hun Sen Hostility Puts UN Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Doubt

Youk Chhang has spent 20 years documenting the horrors of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge “Killing Fields” regime and his team has provided half a million documents to a U.N.-backed tribunal building cases against those responsible. But police have refused to arrest three former senior Khmer Rouge cadres charged with crimes against humanity, and the police have the implicit support of Prime Minister Hun Sen in refusing not to cooperate. At a cost of more than $200 million and after a decade...

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